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Porsche Conference At Geneva Premiered Cayman GT4, ‘Surprise’ Second Track Star

If you can’t be bothered to make it out to Switzerland for the public days at the Geneva Motor Show – or perhaps can’t afford to – we’re here to tell you all the relevant details of the Porsche conference, where the automaker unveiled two brand new, street-legal (and street-lethal) GT cars.

One of these unveilings was no surprise, as Porsche wasn’t exactly secretive about it: the Porsche Cayman GT4. It was flaunted quite awhile ago, boasting of its 385 HP, 3.8-liter mill (borrowed from the 911 Carrera S), 6-speed manual transmission, and lofty Nordschleife prowess on video. In fact, at the Porsche conference, Porsche CEO Matthias Müller casually mentioned an astonishing lap time of 7 minutes and 40 seconds.

But the Porsche conference featured the coming-out of a second high-performance GT car, and one that the marque had managed to keep a surprise until the moment of its unveiling: the Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Granted, we did have our suspicions.

The performance figures of the 911 GT3 RS were also mostly known to us before; it makes around 500 HP from a (normally-aspirated!) 4.0-liter, and about 338 lb-ft of torque. That’s good for a 0 to 60 jot in 3.1 seconds, and more importantly, a 7 minute 20 second Nürburgring lap time. As Mr. Müller put it at the Porsche conference, “it is the top 911 that’s still allowed to bear a license plate.”

Actually, we think that sums the car up pretty well.

Aaron Birch is an automotive enthusiast and writer/filmmaker from Detroit, MI. As a rule, he only buys cars older than himself.

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