The Porsche 2.7 Carrera RS Homage! This legendary car debuted at the Paris Motor Show in 1972 and quickly became one of the best cars of all time. With a top speed that made it the fastest production 911, and its solid racing record, many consider the Carrera RS to be the best 911 ever built.
The Carrera RS was built on the basis of Porsche’s successful prototype and GT racing programme based on the iconic 911. It was a homologation special that paved the way for a series of legendary racing Porsches. The Carrera 2.7 RS, with its flared wheel arches, distinctive ducktail spoiler and highly tuned six-cylinder flat, is the model against which all subsequent high-performance 911s are measured.
The 2.7-litre engine, which benefited from the experience gained from the 917 racing programme, brought the 911 into the 2500-3000cc class and enabled it to take on heavyweight competitors like Ferrari Daytonas and DeTomaso Panteras. The ducktail rear spoiler was the first real wing on a 911, the widened wheel arches allowed for more rubber in contact with the road, and Porsche put the car on a diet, reducing the weight to just 975 kg.
The 2.7 RS delivers performance that is impressive even by modern standards and was the inspiration for some of Porsche’s most iconic cars, such as the GT2 RS and GT3 RS. It is a fun and street-friendly 911 with real racing capabilities, which formed the model for how Porsche builds special racing models to this day.
The name Carrera had not been used for road-race Porsches for a decade, but it was new to the younger generation of Porsche fans in the 1970s. The name was revered because a Porsche had successfully competed in the famous Carrera Panamericana road race in Mexico in 1953 and 1954.
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