Which car is the real king of the 911 range? Is it the 911 Turbo? Is it the 911 GT2? Or is it this new GT3? I'll get back to this thought later. After all, I am meant to be introducing this brand spanking new GT3 to you...

I'm going to get the figures out of the way, how 'bout that? Traditionally (...) the GT3 is a naturally aspirated engine, and instead of taking the bog-standard (...) 3.6 flat six from the Carrera, it instead gets a tuned version of the new 3.8 litre flat six in the Carrera S, which now gets 320kW, but is still less powerful than the twin-turbocharged engines in the Turbo and GT2. Which is also a tradition, apparently.

So I could tell you that it goes from 0-100kmh in 4.1 seconds, and will blast you all the way to 310kmh, but according to Porsche, that's not really the point of the GT3. The point of the GT3 is to achieve the most perfect blend of chassis cornering ability and outright power - which I thought was the point of every 911, or at least the GT2, but I must have misunderstood something somewhere. It's all a bit confusing.

But what is clear is that the new GT3 will be a force to be reckoned with on the track - just to the prove this point to every customer, Porsche offers a complimentary racing course at Silverstone in Great Britain with every purchase of a GT3. And Porsche certainly have enough acronyms to back up their claims (because every sports car needs a bunch of acronyms to sound technologically advanced, it seems) - PSM, UHP, PCCB, VTS, PADM, just naming a few, and PASM, which is one little letter away from spasm. Imagine rattling off all them to your mate who thinks his Commodore Calais V is technologically advanced because it has ESC.

But what does all that mean? Not a whole lot really, they're just special Porsche names for regular things like brakes, steering, suspension, tyres and the like. They're all highly advanced versions of these common-place items, mind. Porsche will make sure that they're all as close to perfection as they can do, believe you me. Don't ever tell a Porsche engineer that the chassis on a 911 GT3 is average - they will summon an army of glasses-wearing scientists in white lab coats who will remove your internal organs and replace them with mechanical ones they've made themselves that are approximately 236.43% better.

And did I mention that the 911 GT3 has the most ridiculous and precarious rear spoiler I have ever seen?!

So where does the GT3 fit in? Is it the ultimate 911? It's not the fastest, because the GT2 takes that cake. But both the GT2 and GT3 are almost track-day specials in comparison to a 911 Turbo, which probably renders them irrelevant. So is the Turbo the real king, because it is just about as fast as it's race-car brothers? Or is it the GT2, with it's outright power? Or this new GT3, with better balance than a Russian gymnast, the real king?

I'm getting really annoyed. I want the number one 911, right here, right now. None of this "whatever suits your driving style" crap. I want the best Porsche can do. Period. Otherwise, any description of a new range-topping Porsche 911 will involve a lot of these - (...)

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