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We've been counting every day since Porsche unleashed the 911 R at the Geneva Motor Show back on March 1st, waiting for this uber-exclusive driver's special to show up in the wild.
While we have seen the ultimate wingless Neunelfer out on the road on a few occasions, none of those machines were customer cars. Well, we wish we could've said the situation is different with the pair of Rs in the pic above, but the truth is that this 1,000 horsepower pair also includes Zuffenhausen-owned cars - the vehicles were shot at a Porsche location in Germany.
With the German automaker only building 991 examples of the stick shift beast, we don't expect all of these to be used as its maker intended them to. Nevertheless, while we're here to make sure the 911 R remains under the spotlights until its first customers get their cars, we'll be back on the topic as soon as we get our keyboard on fresh material.
As for those of you who missed our previous 911 R stories, you might want to check out the time when a convoy of such naturally aspirated demons saw test drivers parading through Monaco.
Returning to the hardcore driving point mentioned above, we have to prepare ourselves for the inevitable moment when the speculation market will deliver one of these manual gearbox Porsches with a mind-bending price. In theory, this isn't supposed to happen.
But after seeing 911 GT3 RS PDKs costing $400,000 and other carmakers' (read: Ferrari) easy money-repelling systems failing, we don't expect the R to be 100 percent safe when it comes to this. Come to think of it, the 2017 Ford GT might be the only machine that successfully evades all speculation, but that's only thanks to the fact that the Blue Oval has come up with a buyer selection process that would probably seem ridiculous to many Porsche customers.
With the German automaker only building 991 examples of the stick shift beast, we don't expect all of these to be used as its maker intended them to. Nevertheless, while we're here to make sure the 911 R remains under the spotlights until its first customers get their cars, we'll be back on the topic as soon as we get our keyboard on fresh material.
As for those of you who missed our previous 911 R stories, you might want to check out the time when a convoy of such naturally aspirated demons saw test drivers parading through Monaco.
Returning to the hardcore driving point mentioned above, we have to prepare ourselves for the inevitable moment when the speculation market will deliver one of these manual gearbox Porsches with a mind-bending price. In theory, this isn't supposed to happen.
But after seeing 911 GT3 RS PDKs costing $400,000 and other carmakers' (read: Ferrari) easy money-repelling systems failing, we don't expect the R to be 100 percent safe when it comes to this. Come to think of it, the 2017 Ford GT might be the only machine that successfully evades all speculation, but that's only thanks to the fact that the Blue Oval has come up with a buyer selection process that would probably seem ridiculous to many Porsche customers.
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