2007 Porsche 911 GT3 (997) test drive and walk around with Chris from Chicago Cars Direct. The GT3 is the road-going basis of the world’s most popular race car (more than 1000 have been built since 1998). That makes it the pinnacle of the Porsche production-car pyramid as well as the homologation special that justifies the existence of the GT3 racing car. The secret to its split personality is Porsche Active Suspension Management, or PASM, which allows drivers to alter the dynamic character of the car by pushing a button to modify the shock valving of the three-way adjustable Bilsteins. “You can never be happy with one setup for both the road and the racetrack,” Hartmut Kristen, Porsche’s director of motorsport, says from the pit wall while Walter R”hrl rockets past in a screaming yellow GT3. “With PASM, we don’t have to compromise.” It’s no coincidence that Porsche’s motorsports honcho and a two-time World Rally Champion helped develop the GT3. Unlike the Ferrari Enzo, the Bugatti Veyron, and the Porsche Carrera GT, the GT3 isn’t an exercise in corporate ego and wretched excess. Nor is it a car whose fundamentally uninspiring qualities have been overcome with heroic surgery, such as the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, the Chevrolet Cobalt SS, and various AMG Mercedes-Benzes. The GT3 is the 911 pared down to its essence. As such, it embodies the very soul of Porsche, a company that considers motorsports not merely a marketing strategy but a corporate imperative. The first …
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A 17-year-old high school student with an old cell phone and a lot of patience made 14 online swaps over two years to get his 2000 Porsche Boxster S.