That car isnt modified, its a BMW Motorsport factory race car. I havent seen pricing yet but the competition costs $450k up to $635k for the F430GT.
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Originally Posted by Cavi Mike
Porsche makes a mid-engine car, it's called the Boxster. The 911 is a real car that you can use everyday, not just some sunday driver, that backseat is very important. Without the back seat you have...wait for it...a boxster. People do use that backseat and if you take it away, what's the point of buying it now? It can no longer be your daily driver so what's the point? And if people don't buy your car, what's the point of winning races with it?
All of that aside, what I don't understand is if BMW can have 4.0litre's and a V8, why can't Porsche have their 10% smaller, 2 piston shy engine with a turbo?
And I do still think the new M3 is retarded, no matter how good it looks. It's a fucking boat with a V8 like everything else.
*edit* and I ruined my lucky 777 post count with this too, FYI
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Ok my head hurts.
We're talking race cars, specifically BMW vs Porsche. Race cars have very little in common with street cars, especially rear seat leg room. Why would Porsche race the RS Spyder, a prototype car that looks nothing like a street Porsche and is barely branded as such? Because the name Porsche winning races sells cars, not the actual street car racing.
And have you seen the backseat in the 911?! It looks like a bleacher for midgets! It's only there so your insurance company cant call it a 2 seater.
The purists would flip but they need to get everything they can out of the Cayman. Cayman Turbo, Cayman GT, Cayman GT RS, etc. It's a better platform, but if it usurped the 911, 25,000 geriatrics worldwide would throw a fit and storm Stuttgart in their 1982 911 SCs.
The reason Porsche cant have a turbo is because within the rules of modification they would be making ridiculously more power than the NA competition. On the other hand, they wouldnt want to since a race version of the flat 6 turbo motor from the production cars wouldnt last a race in that kind of stress. A forced inducted engine in FIA GT class would have a huge displacement penalty (we're talking less than 2.0L) making it much harder to drive than an NA motor with the same power.
The street M3 being a pig is how sports cars are going these days. This has nothing to do with it. Its a stripped 700lb chassis shell littered with carbon and aluminum race parts. That's pretty much the only similarity.