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View Poll Results: What Car Should Win Performance Car of the Year?
Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series 3 2.63%
Porsche 992 911 GT3 65 57.02%
Toyota GR86/Subaru BRZ 7 6.14%
Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing 26 22.81%
Volkswagen Golf GTI 0 0%
Bentley Continental GT Speed 0 0%
Lamborghini Huracán STO 4 3.51%
BMW M4 Competition xDrive 9 7.89%
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      10-01-2021, 08:49 PM   #23
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Is this GT3 that much better than the outgoing one? Seems like a pretty small incremental step?
The front suspension was overhauled for this gen. Pulled from the cup car.
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      10-01-2021, 09:47 PM   #24
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I dunno about some of these picks. Anyone throw up a bit w the Bentley being mentioned? That monstrosity is over 5,000lbs! I dunno about how they define "performance" but that's not in my dictionary.
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I dunno about some of these picks. Anyone throw up a bit w the Bentley being mentioned? That monstrosity is over 5,000lbs! I dunno about how they define "performance" but that's not in my dictionary.
Thank God someone else sees this list as a cherry picked one.

Should they have thrown the ousted Vipers back on the list since the market for Vipers is insane right now?
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      10-01-2021, 10:07 PM   #26
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Is this GT3 that much better than the outgoing one? Seems like a pretty small incremental step?
depends on your usage. on track yes the new one is a good bit faster... its mainly due to the tire advantage (cup2r) and the big wing generating downforce. it runs the same time as the old GT3RS which had those same advantages over the last gt3.

but because of the big aero it needs to run a stiff suspension. i've heard its less enjoyable on the street unless you're on perfect roads. the old car had a more compliant suspension for road use.
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Blackwing is going to make top three, just don't know which spot. Tough group this year. GT3 has to take it, right? I see M4 being in bottom three.
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Is this GT3 that much better than the outgoing one? Seems like a pretty small incremental step?
Supposedly the new front double wishbone changes the car dramatically. Even though front is now twice as stiff as previous GT3, 992 still gains comfort for street driving with new suspension setup.
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      10-03-2021, 12:27 PM   #29
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I predict the Caddy will take it.
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I'm a Porsche guy but the AMG is a beast.
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I agree with the poll that the GT3 is the car to beat, but the STO deserves more than the current 0 votes
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Objectively speaking I haven't seen any car this year with as much universal praise as the 765LT.

"The performance of this vehicle is beyond anything folks should be able to just buy and drive on the street." - Road and Track.

Yet they've omitted it from their own list...gotta love this modern age of journalism.
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The 992 also has 6 individual throttle bodies. The throttle input response must be instantaneous this time around.
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Objectively speaking I haven't seen any car this year with as much universal praise as the 765LT.

"The performance of this vehicle is beyond anything folks should be able to just buy and drive on the street." - Road and Track.

Yet they've omitted it from their own list...gotta love this modern age of journalism.
This is a very good point. I wonder if Mclaren wasn't able to make one available for the comparo…
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The 992 also has 6 individual throttle bodies. The throttle input response must be instantaneous this time around.
If it's anything like on the SS setting on an M then I'm happy and like most I went for the 992.
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GT3 for sure.
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Haven’t driven any of these personally so I’m clueless but that STO sure is neat
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I dunno about some of these picks. Anyone throw up a bit w the Bentley being mentioned? That monstrosity is over 5,000lbs! I dunno about how they define "performance" but that's not in my dictionary.
The Bentley is absolutely a performance car.

Wouldn't surprised if its one of the CT5-V BW, GT3, or GTI.
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This is a very good point. I wonder if Mclaren wasn't able to make one available for the comparo…
Exactly the situation. Same with MT, they only include cars they can get their hands on for same day tests.
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The Bentley is absolutely a performance car.

Wouldn't surprised if its one of the CT5-V BW, GT3, or GTI.
Well, maybe to some but not in my books. Straight-line, sure, but what about everything else? Might as well buy a rocket and attach wheels to it. I prefer light and able to handle the twisties.
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Hmm, either only the STO or the GT3.
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Porsche 992 GT3 Revealed as R&T Performance Car of the Year

2022 Performance Car of the Year
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Our three finalists for the PCOTY title represent different performance formulas, but each had six forward gears, three pedals, and rear-wheel drive. Coincidence?

Ultimately, the debate was less a sober litigation and more a reflection on what Performance Car of the Year actually means. The Cadillac may be the last V-8 stick-shift sport sedan ever to lay two greasy slabs of rubber down an American blacktop. Isn’t that worth celebrating? Or do you reward the 911 for its race-car soul and life-affirming flat-six? And what about the Toyota 86, that ear-to-ear grin on wheels?

In the end, we were left with a near dead heat. There are no losers in this bunch. But Road & Track doesn’t award participation trophies; there can be only one winner. And what a winner it is.

The Champ: God's own Porsche

The 2022 Porsche 911 GT3 emerges from a spiritual imagination. Its heritage is a misty past. It’s born facing an uncertain future. It is both transcendent and instantaneous. It is the Feast of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit indwells as a car. It is the incarnate faith of the Church of What’s Happening Now. It’s so close to begotten and not made.

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It’s barely a 911. The other new 911s have turbos. This GT3 doesn’t. All the other 911s have a strut front suspension. The GT3 uses double wishbones. All-wheel drive? That’s for timid dilettantes. There are faster 911s, but this is the best. Porsche has set the GT3 apart, something for true believers. Drivers. Buyers who would drain their veins to pay in blood if Porsche demanded it.

This is about inspiration and meaning and their substantiation. The GT3 draws on an ancient, deep faith that communion with machinery is in itself worthwhile and ennobling. It validates that faith with its avid character. And it’s as real and tangible as German steel, aluminum, and carbon fiber on a set of French tires.

The GT3 has become a quicker, faster, and more extreme track tool with each generation. But it remains a road car with livable ride quality and excellent outward visibility.

The catechism of GT3 is known and often memorized. The pure heart here is a 4.0-liter, 502-hp flat-six that wails to 9000 rpm. Electrics and modern turbo engines make consistent torque almost instantly, but the GT3 needs to reach 6100 rpm to find its peak. But turbo motors hum and electrics are silent, while the GT3’s engine makes joyous noises rising up unto God.

The central tachometer, Alcantara-covered steering wheel, and manual shifter speak to the GT3’s traditional performance-car priorities.

It’s an engine built for glory with a dry-sump oiling system, a relatively short 81.5-mm stroke, a 13.3:1 compression ratio, and an individual throttle for each cylinder. Blip the accelerator pedal and the first sound is those intake pipes gulping a slug of atmosphere. Then arises the distinct exhaust sound of an opposed six tuned to the baroque luster of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sacred organ music. It’s a car that leaps forward not just across pavement, but in progressive, mathematically precise, artistically structured octaves.

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In the 21st century, there’s no avoiding computers. And the GT3 is loaded with devices controlling everything from valve timing to suspension behavior and all the usual nav-this and hear-that entertainment frippery. It’s all incidental. The bedrock of greatness here comes from the time-tested commandments of performance.

The first among those is weight reduction. There’s less sound deadening than in other 911s. No pretend rear seat, no motor to move the rear wing up or down. The trunk lid and front and rear fascias are lightweight plastic, the glass has been thinned to drop 10.4 pounds, the stainless steel exhaust system is practically anorexic, and those center-lock hubs mean 16 fewer fasteners holding the wheels to the car. Lightweight carbon-fiber bucket seats are available, and an optional car- bon roof knocks off a couple more pounds. In total, Porsche claims that this GT3, when equipped with the PDK transmission, weighs 3164 pounds. With the six-speed manual, it’s an even slimmer 3126 pounds. In contrast, the base 911 Carrera—rear drive like the GT3—has a stated curb weight of 3354 pounds. That’s a massive 228-pound difference.

The Porsche 911 GT3 Approaches Motoring Perfection
Despite the SlimFast edict, the GT3 goes big where big is a commandment of its own. Like great tires that are also great big tires. As in 255/35R- 20 front and wicked wide 315/30R-21 rear Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2R rubber. Same size as on the 640-hp, all-wheel-drive 911 Turbo S, but more radically adhesive. Behind them are giant 16.1-inch front and 15.4-inch rear carbon brakes that could have stopped the Romans from entering Judea.

Finally, the greatest commandment is simplicity. Computers are relentlessly logical, but lack imagination—at least in terms of the artistic, sometimes inchoate, often passionate and inexplicable ways that human imagination works. Yes, the GT3 generates numbers, but that’s not its appeal. It’s the sound, the instantaneous bite of those big Michelins, its graceful rotation at apex, its astonishing thrust exiting a curve. It’s so good that it elevates the human spirit without the mediation of ones and zeros. The GT3 isn’t a simulation; it’s science and engineering harnessed to the pursuit of human aspiration. It is so many eternal virtues wrapped up in one Porsche that allows us mortals to reach out beyond our temporary presence.

Yesterday is behind us. Tomorrow remains a mystery. The GT3 is the best of What’s Happening Now. And so, it is Road & Track’s 2022 Performance Car of the Year. Get in good with the Lord and He may bless you with one.

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No surprise the GT3 won. It is simply incredible. I have driven 2 of them in manual and it's just sublime...
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cool to see the 86 make top 3 along with the GT3 and Caddy. What a garage that would be. GT3 for the weekend, blackwing for the wife, and 86 for the daily.
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