And it's a relatively recent phenomenon, only having existed since the 996-generation 911. I suspect that we've already seen the best one ever, with the 997 GT3 RS. Welcome to You Must Buy ...

The 997 GT3 upped the stakes to 435 hp and made a dual ... The GT3 has not always been part of the 911 lineup, only arriving for the 996. Three years would pass before a 992-gen GT3 became available.

Both the 996 and later the 997 GT3s were only available with a manual transmission. In the United States especially, this analog nature continues to define the breed, with 70 percent of U.S. GT3 ...

I’m in the original 996 GT3 – in Speed Yellow, of course; the red spoiler belongs to its replacement, and this road has shown that the step from 996 to 997 brought tangible benefits in terms ...

but the GT3 road-racers that were associated with both the 996 and the succeeding 997 went with an older-school but tougher flat six which had direct roots to the bulletproof Hans Mezger-designed ...

There have been four generations of the GT3 RS, each based on a different Porsche 911 body design. In chronological order by body type number, they are the 996, the 997, the 991, and the 992.

Got yourself a Porsche Carrera, GT2, GT3, Carrera 4S or Turbo from ... parts in combination with their own to convert the 996 to a 997, sans the cost of going out and buying a brand new Porsche.

It’s hard to believe, but Porsche has been producing the GT3 for a quarter of a century. And across four different generations of the 911—996, 997, 991, and 992—the GT3’s philosophy has ...

Because of this, Turbo, GT3, and GT2 models in either 996 or 997 guise are highly-valued and sought-after by collectors, while Carreras and Targas with their problematic M96 engines and ...

The GT3 idea was an instant hit. After an inevitable 996.2, the 997 GT3 arrived in 2006. The fried egg headlamps were gone and the 3.6-litre flat-six now had over 400bhp, plus an 8,400rpm redline.

I'm sure most people were happy when Porsche ditched the 996 headlight design for the 997. But I'm unsure whether giving up on the manual gearbox for the 991 GT3 RS was as celebrated a decision.

Later versions of the normally-aspirated (NA) 996 Mezger engine reached nearly ... of 500 horsepower in its final appearance in the 997 GT3 RS 4.0. This was a doubling of displacement with nearly ...