Porsche learns a vital lesson

The new Porsche 911 GT3 hones the GT department’s most hardcore 911, even if some of its specification is gloriously old-fashioned, writes Kyle Fortune

The new Porsche 911 GT3 is little short of a masterpiece
If you can afford it, the Porsche 911 GT3 is unlikely to ever lose you any money

Porsche was wrong, and it has admitted it. The GT department, which makes Porsche’s racers and the road cars that allow them through racing’s homologation rules, made a mistake when it introduced the previous 911 GT3. It was only available with Porsche’s paddle-shifted, twin-clutch, two-pedal automatic transmission, called PDK. Porsche purists despaired; the last bastion of the focused ...