DRIVING IMPRESSION
Porsche 911 GT3 is a true mover and shaker of the road
After driving the latest Porsche 911 GT3, Lerato Matebese says it should rate as one of the world’s seven wonders
The year 2000 was a watershed time for me. I completed my high schooling and was going to university to study further and hopefully one day land a job that would afford me my first car. It was also the year that I first clapped eyes on a yellow, first-generation Porsche 911 GT3 in the motoring pages of a local newspaper. I was mesmerised. Here was a focused, track-ready 911 that could also be driven on the daily commute. My acquaintance with the model finally arrived in the form of the generation-two variant, replete with a 4.0l, flat-six normally aspirated engine and a good, honest six-speed manual. With 450km of some of the best Western Cape roads at my beck and call, I was ready to immerse myself in what I can only describe as one of the most memorable driving experiences in my career as a motoring scribe. Nothing quite primes your senses for the theatrics and the nigh perfect analogue driving experience the GT3 offers. Of course, the car is more digitised than the air-cooled Por...
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