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The Porsche 911 GT3 RS is no longer the most track-focused street car from Stuttgart's rear-engined fellowship. This is.
It's a one-off built by a company called Orbit Racing that takes the aesthetics and most of the mechanical gubbins from the 911 RSR - the same car that raced in this year's Le Mans 24hr - together with kevlar arch liners, new wheel wells, diffuser panels and a bucket load of splendidery to create one of the hardest street-legal racers ever.
Using a MKII GT3 RS as the foundation, Orbit sourced parts directly from Porsche's race car and then bolted them on. It keeps the 435bhp 3.8-litre flat-six but cozened the 911 RSR's exhaust and had its ECU tinkered to digitally create more horsepower. Underneath, the suspension has been reworked to Nurburgring-winning racer specification, so with that inordinately large wing on the back and trick suspension, this thing's likely to stick to the track like a melted Haribo.
But don't think that the owner is just going to take this on the track. It has maintained a lot of the sound insulation so that it can also be used daily and has been spotted regularly on the street.
You can see a gallery of the car here.
And a video of the build here.
What race car would you want to see made into a street weapon, TopGear.commers?
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sirwiggum commented on this article
at 12:21 pm on 15 December 2011
Not going to be much use in the UK, potholed roads, speed humps, even some inclines between roads at junctions are enough to cause the lower bumper to scrape the ground!
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Sambawacki commented on this article
at 12:23 pm on 15 December 2011
Want! Hmm howabout the DBRS9? Now that would be the prettiest street racer out there!
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BlueSwift commented on this article
at 12:26 pm on 15 December 2011
Yeah, agreed on the DBRS9! The Mclaren MP4-12C GT3 as well, or the SuperGT 500 Nissan GTR! :)
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Sambawacki commented on this article
at 12:41 pm on 15 December 2011
Howabout the Audi DTM racer? That is pretty savage-looking!
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StigsIrishCousn commented on this article
at 12:47 pm on 15 December 2011
I'd actually like to see a return to rally cars for the road. The Xsara and C4 were world beaters but had no road equivalent so that's something that needs to be rectified by the FIA.
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