The new Porsche 911 GT3 S/C | world premiere | open to what matters

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:15]I've just received this Porsche red seal with Oh, I'd love to invite you.

[00:00:24]Shifting some gears on Tenneref's mountain roads. Best driver's cars ever made.

[00:00:30]>> Andy and packed my bags yesterday cuz this sounds very very exciting.

[00:00:35]>> Somebody has sunscreen for me.

[00:00:46]So it looks like that I'm a few meters away from the meeting point. There are some cars. Well, not there's a camera crew. That's okay. That's That's Chris Harris.

[00:01:05]>> Nice to meet you, Chris.

[00:01:06]>> You JP. Did you get a letter?

[00:01:08]>> I did. I guess like you.

[00:01:10]>> Yes. But just to clarify the sort of weird Harry Potter letter. I'm not looking for company. I'm looking for a car which is not here.

[00:01:22]>> What are we expecting? Got to be something special.

[00:01:29]They've done a GT3. They've done a touring.

[00:01:33]>> Wait a second. Yeah, that sounds good.

[00:01:35]What's that?

[00:01:37]Oh. Uh, that's a flat 6.

[00:01:41]So, something loud, something fast.

[00:01:46]Okay, that's na. Yeah, that's not aspirated.

[00:02:04]GT. Well, look at this. Look at this.

[00:02:08]Wow. Oh, now you're talking. What is that? Check out the fender door.

[00:02:14]>> It's a GT3S C. That's What is that though? Is that a GT3? Is that an ST? It's got ST door.

[00:02:21]Look, ST doors.

[00:02:22]>> Yeah, >> it's got um scallop thing there. The fenders. The front is a GT3. The hood is a GT3.

[00:02:30]ST Harmon.

[00:02:31]>> Yes. Carbon.

[00:02:32]>> Yeah.

[00:02:33]>> The beautiful door with the fenders.

[00:02:35]>> Door handle. I got to go. Look at that.

[00:02:37]Love a door handle. Look at this. This is It's got mag wheels as well.

[00:02:43]>> Yeah.

[00:02:45]>> It's like Porsche went through their cars and did put everything together.

[00:02:49]Well, it's nice. Look. Look from here.

[00:02:51]>> Yeah.

[00:02:52]>> To see a GT3 rear end, middle exhaust, no roof 992.

[00:02:59]>> Well, I've got a bit of an issue here, boss. I should I should be repelled by this, but I quite like it. I think a few years ago, absolutely. But because of the touring and all this, I think Porsche made a nice route that there's a lot of room that the GT3 convertible can exist.

[00:03:16]>> Hold on, my phone's >> We allowed to drive, right?

[00:03:19]>> Hey, Chris.

[00:03:20]Hey Chris from Andreas. I hope you like the surprise. Have a great drive and I'll see you later at the location in the navigation. So there's navigation and a location. You can drive. You let me drive. Let's >> I trust you.

[00:03:36]>> Okay. Oh, look at this. No button.

[00:03:39]>> Yeah, I like that.

[00:03:40]>> And manual.

[00:03:41]>> The old Manuel.

[00:03:42]>> Oh, that's great. So, let me see. Can we also sports exhaust?

[00:03:47]>> Oh, no. Oh, it's the end.

[00:03:49]>> That's beautiful. Let's go.

[00:03:59]>> This is beautiful. It is.

[00:04:02]>> Now, I'm not the best passenger, right?

[00:04:04]I'm known for not being the best. I've I've But I've seen the fact that you can drive.

[00:04:08]>> Yeah.

[00:04:09]>> So, I'm trusting you.

[00:04:12]>> Great sound.

[00:04:16]Just straight out the back.

[00:04:25]>> I know why they wanted us to come here because the walls.

[00:04:29]>> Yeah, it's fabulous.

[00:04:30]>> Yeah. Gives you the sound. So extremely nice.

[00:04:37]>> Also, it's a it's a real engine noise.

[00:04:40]It's not manufactured.

[00:04:41]>> Yeah.

[00:04:47]It's amazing. Wow.

[00:04:49]>> Cuz I've never heard this engine.

[00:04:51]>> Yeah. So close.

[00:04:52]>> And it's It is one of the great sounds in motoring.

[00:04:55]>> It is.

[00:05:07]>> It is pure. It is. It is real.

[00:05:09]>> Yeah.

[00:05:12]this experience that >> with that engine is something special.

[00:05:17]>> The way this feels.

[00:05:20]>> Yeah.

[00:05:25]>> That there is a is a new experience. So to hear that engine coming off the walls.

[00:05:31]>> Yeah, >> I get it.

[00:05:37]What would you rather have? 750 turbocharged or 500 NA. I'd rather have NA.

[00:05:43]>> Yeah.

[00:05:43]>> Personally, >> when I was young, I was exactly the opposite because more power is better.

[00:05:49]>> But now, I enjoy the sound. I enjoy driving. I enjoy what the car can do.

[00:06:01]>> And how much faster do you need to go than this? I tell you, I don't need to go any faster than this.

[00:06:09]So many things to hang on to.

[00:06:12]I still philosophically the young me thinks a GT3 should be a purest car with the maximum stiffness, the minimum weight, and a normally aspiration engine.

[00:06:23]Well, I'm not driving it, but this it just doesn't feel like it's got any shake at all.

[00:06:31]Oh, it's stiff. It feels it feels I mean we're driving now for a few minutes but these little bumps for example when you know some convertibles they are already you you feel that the steering and what the car does >> Yeah.

[00:06:43]>> is not really stiff but it feels exactly like a GT3.

[00:06:48]You don't feel that this is open at all.

[00:06:50]>> No.

[00:06:51]>> But let's let's try to close the roof.

[00:06:54]How fast can you put the roof down at 50? Is it really doing that?

[00:06:57]>> Yeah, man. That's unbelievable. Yeah, we close. We close to 60.

[00:07:03]>> That's impressive.

[00:07:04]>> That's impressive >> with all the shell moving.

[00:07:05]>> Yeah. Yeah. And still hits the right point.

[00:07:07]>> Yeah.

[00:07:07]>> You Germans are clever.

[00:07:12]>> I enjoy it way more open.

[00:07:15]>> Yeah.

[00:07:16]>> If you'd said to me 20 years ago, >> they're going to take the roof off a GT3, I would have gone home.

[00:07:20]>> Yeah.

[00:07:21]>> When the car arrived, a little bit of me, the young bit of me, there's still a bit of me that thinks I'm young, thought, I'm going to get I'm going to get an Uber. I'm going home. What are these clowns doing? They've wrecked a perfectly good car.

[00:07:33]>> I think it's the most radical convertible you can really buy, especially from Porsche.

[00:07:37]>> Yeah, >> it feels light. You know what? Let's Let's change.

[00:07:40]>> Yeah.

[00:07:42]>> Thank God.

[00:07:44]>> Well, now you're driving beautifully. I'm just a passenger.

[00:07:56]I mean, you've been driving beautifully, but I really like it.

[00:08:02]>> God, you're long. I can't even touch the pedals. Let me see what you got.

[00:08:24]The grimacing it >> it's a cool car. I mean really dynamically.

[00:08:32]If you say this is much worse than a than a hard top that you're lying.

[00:08:39]I'm going to do some guess work here because we don't have all the numbers and until we see him later on. This doesn't feel heavy.

[00:08:47]>> No, I would say it's below 1500.

[00:08:51]>> Yeah. Which in this day and age with all the safety stuff is impressive.

[00:08:56]>> The the impression I have, yes, the dynamics are all like better than expected, but I just it's the access to this noise. This is a musical instrument and we get more of it.

[00:09:07]>> You hear it sucking. It's like the difference between the back row of the concert and now we're in the front row of the concert, you know?

[00:09:23]>> That's living. That is second gear. Bam.

[00:09:25]Blip.

[00:09:35]Just to be able to live with this engine on a daily basis is just a privilege.

[00:10:17]Check him out. Look who's over there.

[00:10:20]>> Oh, the boss. The boss. I'm putting the handbrake on here.

[00:10:24]>> Thanks for bringing it back in one piece, guys. Hey, that's an invitation I don't get every day, honestly.

[00:10:30]>> Hey, you're welcome.

[00:10:31]>> We had a very nice day so far.

[00:10:32]>> Hello, my friend. Good to see you.

[00:10:34]>> We were talking about all day. So, what is the weight of the car?

[00:10:39]>> Make a guess. You've driven it >> under 1500.

[00:10:42]>> You're good. It's 1,497.

[00:10:45]So, a little shy of 1500. But that is very lightweight for a convertible.

[00:10:50]>> I mean, other convertibles, 911 convertibles, they start at 1650, 1675.

[00:10:55]If a turbo is 1,700 and I tell you what, 500 horsepower and 510 and that you need and 1500 kilos is all you need for a driver's car. We're not on a track here.

[00:11:04]We don't have stopwatches.

[00:11:06]>> So, question for you. If you take the same shell and this is the same shell as a Carrera.

[00:11:10]>> Yeah.

[00:11:10]>> Take the same shell and have less weight. You have less flight.

[00:11:13]>> Exactly. So, the leverage on all parts because of the lower weight is a lot less. And so, the rigidity, especially the felt rigidity, is better. And we would have done something if we would have to, but it just was not necessary.

[00:11:27]The car is as stiff as a brick.

[00:11:29]>> So the setup is the dampers and the spring rates are the same as a touring.

[00:11:34]>> It's the same same part numbers, same everything.

[00:11:36]>> You've been quite generous with the bits though, haven't you?

[00:11:38]>> I mean, this is the lightweight package of the touring standard.

[00:11:41]>> PCCB standard.

[00:11:44]>> Magnesium threedimensional wheels standard light door frame. So, we really were trying very hard to make it as light as possible.

[00:11:52]>> So, here's an observation for you, and it's quite it's quite important for me.

[00:11:57]I know it was for JP as well, to finally have an open top car, a normally aspirated engine with a manual gearbox.

[00:12:04]It it was a bit of a an epiphany. I always knew it would be good, >> but the reason why in your letter you said one of the best drivers cars is >> Yes.

[00:12:13]>> the sound is so pure.

[00:12:18]And it's almost a shame to put the roof up afterwards because the noise is exceptional.

[00:12:24]>> And the thing is, I mean, for me, it's it it's added value if you compare it to a closed car.

[00:12:30]>> Yeah.

[00:12:30]>> Because if you want to drive for the sake of driving, and that's exactly what the purpose of that thing is. Yeah. You want to address all your sensory systems.

[00:12:39]>> Man, good god. I want to hang the ass of this thing out.

[00:12:49]>> We can do that again.

[00:12:50]>> We can do that again. So, we already have new ideas. Maybe >> go this way and get a beer. I've got I've got one question.

[00:12:56]>> I think the view is anyway very nice.

[00:12:58]Let's check it out. Let's go. I want to know how did you get the wax seal onto the >> the wax? The wax seal was done.