INTERNATIONAL LAUNCH: Mercedes-AMG GT R is a star of engineering and a project of passion
Porsche’s 911 GT3 dominates the big end of track-day town and its adherents are unshakeable. AMG shot its GT and GT S straight at the heart of the 911, now it is going after the 911 GT3 with the GT R which is due in SA in the second quarter of 2017. And its aim has been surgically precise. It’s a solidly stiff road car but an incandescent track car that sounds like an entire Nascar field. Porsche used to have this market all to itself. You could spend a bit less and get a BMW M3 of one sort or another or spend a bit more for a near-pure track car, but to get something you were happy driving home again, you had to get a 911 GT3. You don’t have to get a 911 GT3 anymore. In fact, you’d be almost legally culpable if you didn’t have a drive of one of these things before you turned up at Porsche with a cheque. The GT R takes everything from the GT and GT S programmes and makes it stronger, lighter, more powerful and more precise. Everything from a 57mm stretch in width to how it steers to...
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