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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
WHERE ENGINEERING BECOMES INSTINCT

There are fast cars.
There are expensive cars.
There are impressive cars.

And then there are cars that are not merely built-
they are distilled.

Stripped of everything unnecessary.

Reduced to the essence of what a sports car
can be when everything is put on the line.

This is where Porsche’s GT department enters the picture.

A place where compromises do not exist.
Where comfort is suspicious.
Where emotion and physics collide in a fusion of precision and controlled chaos.

And at the center of it all stands one man:

Andreas Preuninger

The man who decided that a 911 should be felt-
not merely driven.

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THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO MAKE IT EASY

Preuninger is no conventional leader.

He is obsession in human form.


A man who speaks about cars the way a conductor speaks about music.
A man who believes a car is only finished when it does something you cannot explain — 

only feel.


He is known for three things:

  • relentless perfectionism

  • brutal honesty

  • saying no to compromise, even when everyone else says yes

He is the mind behind:

  • GT3

  • GT3 RS

  • GT2

  • GT2 RS

  • 911 R

  • Cayman GT4

  • Weissach Packages

Some of the most extreme road cars ever built.

When asked why GT cars are so raw, his answer is simple:

“Because we build them for people who want to feel something.”


GT3 — where the car’s soul is stripped bare

The GT3 is not a car.
It is an instrument.

A machine where every millimeter, every bolt, every surface is optimized for one purpose:

To translate the language of the road directly into the driver’s body.

This is where the RS philosophy begins —
with the belief that the car must be:

  • light

  • sharp

  • instinctive

  • brutally honest

That is why the GT3 has always felt more mechanical, more raw, and more sensitive than any other modern 911.


GT2 — turbocharged madness disguised as engineering

If the GT3 is a violin, the GT2 is a machine gun.

A rear-wheel-drive car with fire-spitting turbochargers and a character that is as psychological as it is fast.


The GT2 RS is the culmination:

  • 700+ horsepower

  • rear-wheel drive

  • no mercy

  • a temperament that laughs at fear

Some cars are fast.

The GT2 RS is dangerous.

And that is exactly the point.

“A GT model is not built to make you fast. It is built to reveal whether you dare to be.”

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THE RS PHILOSOPHY AND THE PLACE WHERE THE 911 BECOMES RADICAL

RS stands for RennSport.
But inside the GT department, it means something simpler:

If it does not make the car faster — remove it.

That is why:

  • rear windows become plastic

  • insulation disappears

  • fabric door straps replace handles

  • wheel bolts are hollowed

  • paint is measured in microns

Clutches become lighter.
Panels are made from magnesium, carbon fiber, and ambition.

An RS model is not a car you own.

It is a car you survive.


Behind the doors in Weissach — where the 911 turns radical

The GT department does not work like other automotive teams.

Everything happens in iterations.

Cars are tested, driven, adjusted — and driven again — until they do something no manual can describe.


Engineers put it this way:

“A GT car is finished when it feels alive.”


Prototypes are everywhere:
cars without doors,
cars without instruments,
cars with cables protruding,
cars covered in sensor points,

cars screaming for the Nürburgring.

And Preuninger moves through it all, listening — not to numbers, but to sounds, vibrations, and moods.


This is how GT cars are born:
through intuition, not spreadsheets.

“The GT department does not build cars. It builds courage.”


Why GT cars feel more “dangerous”

Modern supercars have become easy.
Comfortable.
Safe.
Predictable.

The GT department refuses that path.


Their belief is simple:

If a car does not demand something from you, it cannot give anything back.


That is why GT cars feel like:

  • animals holding back until you ask for more

  • instruments that expose your mistakes

  • partners you must learn to understand

Machines that reward precision.
Speed that feels real — not simulated.


GT3 RS — the car that ignores physics and expectations

The modern RS is no longer an option package.

It is a philosophical statement.


It says:

If you want comfort, buy something else.
If you want power, buy a Turbo.
If you want to feel the world — choose an RS.


With active aerodynamics, DRS, extreme downforce, obsessive weight reduction, and an engine that sings like a sawmill of angels and demons, the GT3 RS has become motorsport disguised as license plates.


Why the GT department matters more than ever

In a world of:

  • electric cars

  • autonomy

  • digital experiences

  • software-controlled handling

  • artificial sound

  • artificial feedback

  • artificial everything

…the GT department stands as a reminder:

That driving once meant feeling.
That a machine can be alive.
That control should not be given — it must be earned.


GT cars are not nostalgic.


They are modern analog experiences at the highest level.

The GT department does not build cars.


It builds experiences that stay in the body.

GT3.
GT2.
RS models.

This small department in Zuffenhausen is responsible for some of the most brutal, uncompromising, and emotionally intense cars the world has ever seen.


And they do not do it for press.
For numbers.
Or for records.

They do it for the feeling.


The feeling you cannot explain.

Only feel.

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