Porsche 911 GT2: Driving report

Whenever we find something about the Porsche 911 GT2 it grabs our attention. After reading this driving report, you will understand why.

Enlightenment, sought by mystics and algebra students alike, blazed a lightning bolt through my soul during a recent visit to Germany. As might be expected, ber-understanding's fist to the forehead was thrown by a new Porsche: the 911 GT2.

The truth, as revealed by Porsche's latest hyper-turbo, did not first flower in the left lane of the autobahn, on a winding road through the Swartzwald, or deep in the apex of a diabolical corner at the Nordschleife. Instead, in keeping with enlightenment's capricious nature, my moment of Zen came within the barbed-wire borders of a defunct Luftwaffe airfield, on a rain-drenched tangle of decayed runways-and from deep within the passenger's bucket seat.

I usually need to drive a car myself before its qualities and faults fully infiltrate my awareness, but, after being strapped next to Porsche test driver and rally legend Walter Rhrl for a few, extremely quick laps of the makeshift track, I discovered all there was to know about driving the GT2. I watched in awe as the lanky German attacked the elements with the cool abandon of a rally maestro, in absolute control, but still jostling my physique and psyche into the sort of synesthetic cross-current of sensual overload that's otherwise achieved (or so I've heard) only by distillates of the poppy.

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Source: European Car Web

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