The Porsche 911 GT3 defended its title of Britain’s Best Driver’s Car on road and track this year - it‘s even better to drive than it is to listen to 🎶
PDKs have, intended to be easy to grab and use like a racing car’s sequential shift lever during circuit driving. The logic is sound, but there is a slightly cheap look about the lever and a plasticky feel to its action, both of which are at odds with the cabin’s otherwise supremely high-quality, tactile feel.
The sat-nav system is clearly rendered, easy to programme and equally easy to follow. The standard audio system is an eight-speaker 150W unit that can be upgraded to Porsche’s 12-speaker 570W surround sound set-up as an option. The standard set-up isn’t one to win awards, but luckily the car’s other built-in sound system is very musical indeed.You might have read that gasoline particulate filters are supposed to make performance cars quieter.
Shifting beyond fourth on almost any public road dulls what’s under your right foot to the point that it feels like you might as well be out for an economy drive; and so manual mode tends to be far more appealing than any automatic setting for the gearbox when you want to enjoy yourself.
It takes longer, however, to get used to just how much the GT3’s steering reacts to bump and camber on an uneven road. The rack seems capable of filtering very little and is always chatty and busy in your hands. It’s wonderful in small doses, particularly when the topography’s working for it. But it’s also the kind of steering that can make your hands ache after a long day’s driving, because you’re simply not used to gripping the rim quite so tightly.
Even with the less grippy of two available tyre compounds fitted, the new GT3 set a benchmark lap time around our dry handling circuit more than a second quicker than even the mighty, 691bhpIt still handles like a traditional 911 at the limit of grip, though. You manage the position of the front axle and juggle the rear mass with trail-braking and throttle loading to keep the chassis pointing where you want.
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