The new rear-wheel-drive road rocket will debut publicly at the Moscow auto show in late August and will go on sale in the United States in October. Sticker price: $245,000.
The GT2 RS, to be built in a limited run of 500, is powered by the latest evolution of Zuffenhausen’s 3.6-liter, twin-turbocharged, horizontally opposed six-cylinder engine, tuned to deliver a Le Mans-grade 620 hp. That’s 90 hp more than the out-of-production 911 GT2 and 8 hp beyond the German carmaker’s previously most powerful road car, the 5.7-liter, naturally aspirated V10-powered Carrera GT.
Porsche claims that the 911 GT2 RS lapped the Nurburgring in 7 minutes, 18 seconds–19 seconds quicker than the new 911 Turbo S. That’s a time that would give it No. 1 billing among series production cars on standard road tires at the legendary German circuit.
