ROAD TEST
Porsche 911 GT3 worthy of deep respect
Mark Smyth finally managed to tick the Porsche 911 GT3 off his bucket list
Every motoring journalist has their bucket list of cars they still want to drive. In my case it has models such as the Ferrari Testarossa, Audi Quattro Sport, BMW 507 and the Lotus Carlton. I’ll get to them all one day I hope, but one which has also eluded me over the years is the Porsche 911 GT3. Finally I have been able to tick that one off the list after Porsche asked me if I wanted to go to Cape Town to play in the mountains. No-brainer, really. I arrived to be greeted by Flacht-GP. For the uninitiated, Flacht is the hometown in Germany of Porsche Motorsport. I felt like I needed to perform some kind of ceremony, perhaps kneeling down with candles around the car, paying it due respect. Perhaps I should spend less time staring at it in reverence and just drive. So I did. I could fill the rest of the page with those terrible motoring hack cliches: it leaps like a scalded cat, it handles like it’s on rails, it has go-kart handling; I could say it is amazing, the best car I’ve drive...
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