Aerodynamics That You Can Actually Feel
The changes start with the front axle, where double-wishbone geometry replaces the outgoing struts — a change that shows up immediately in how quickly the nose settles after a mid-corner correction. It is the single most consequential engineering decision Porsche made with this car, and it is the reason the RS feels calmer at nine-tenths than the standard GT3 does at eight.
At 200 km/h the car generates 409 kg of downforce, roughly double the previous generation. On the Buddh International Circuit’s back straight that translates into a braking point you keep moving later, lap after lap, until you run out of nerve rather than grip.
What It Costs You Every Day
The central radiator moved to the nose to free airflow for the aero package, and it took the luggage compartment with it. There is nowhere to put a helmet bag. The ride, on the softest damper setting, is firm but not punishing on a well-surfaced highway; on a broken city road it is exactly as uncompromising as you would expect.
Fuel consumption on our test loop settled at 6.4 km/l with mixed driving, and the tyres — Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 R as standard — will not last a full season if you use the car as intended.
The Verdict
This is not a car that rewards being bought as an investment and parked. It rewards being driven badly at first and then progressively better, because every one of its systems is calibrated to make a competent driver faster rather than to flatter an incompetent one. If you have track days in the diary, nothing else at this price gets closer to a racing car you can legally drive home.
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