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The light touch
Lightweight fixed-back seats are constructed from carbonfibre
shells, use magnesium fixings and come trimmed in a
combination of leather and microfibre. They do restrict access
to the area behind, where the rear seats usually are; if this
is an issue you can spec more conventional sports seats with
folding backrests, but would you, really? Then there are the
previously RS-specific fabric door pulls, now shared with the
Carrera T, but are at least another touch not offered in that
lowly stablemate, the GT3.Mezger Out, Mader In
The legendary Mezger engine that was
last seen in the 997 GT3 RS 4.0 has been
replaced by something even more special
in the 991. Thomas Mader’s business card
simply reads ‘Project Manager GT Road
Car Engines’ but his CV is pure racer,
having worked on Audi’s Le Mans and DTM
engines. He’s built a masterpiece of an
engine and he reckons there’s more to come
from it, possibly lifting the redline on future
variants to 9500rpm like the Cup race cars.
Forced induction on a GT3? That may well
be a little way off yet.