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Reining In The Horses
911 & Porsche World
|December 2017
Just how extreme can a road car get before it belongs on the track? This 600 horsepower 993 GT2 Evo comes close, yet it has an amazingly docile temperament, too.
Crazy horses! 600 of ’em, straining at the bit to haul this 993 GT2 Evo all the way to the horizon. But this stallion is no wild mustang;rather, a schooled showjumper of the breeds favoured by cavalrymen or bullfighters. And that’s fitting, because it is literally horses-for-courses around here: the Warendorf region is the equestrian capital of Germany, and our Porsche’s Stuttgart coat-of-arms is right at home.
We’re being treated to an outing just down the road by Thomas Schmitz, RS specialist extraordinaire, in the mellow north German countryside surrounding his Telgte base. Thomas’s stable is packed with a mouth-watering array of 964 RSs and 993 RSs, plus a couple of 997 GT3s and 944 Cup Car, and it’s something of a wrench to tear myself away from his topline air-cooled feast to take a ride in the fastest of them all, the 993 GT2 Evo. Having driven a trackable Club Sport version in the Yorkshire Dales in 2016, I’m anticipating an uncompromising ride, where it’s actually me that has to compromise on account of an austere cabin, hard ride and massive mechanical soundtrack. I’m wrong. The Evo that I’m out in now is not like that at all. Sure, it’s got a fearsome clutch, but nothing you wouldn’t quickly come to terms with.
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