The current 911 GT3 has only just had its second birthday and the stealthy Touring model of the 992-generation screamer wasn’t unveiled until summer 2021, but Porsche is already busy preparing the 992.2 versions of both cars. It’s still early days in the R&D cycle – Porsche has to get the launch of the basic 992.2 Carreras out of the way first, and it’s still got some final versions of the current car, including the hardcore ST and Speedster to unveil before that can happen. Because of that new-model logjam, we’re not exacting to see the new GT3s until 2024, which explains why both are still wearing some heavy disguise panels around their rear bumpers.
The central sections of the bumpers and
the location of the exhaust tailpipes appear the same as on the current cars,
but there’s obviously something going on at the bumper corners that Porsche
doesn’t want us to see. We also have a strong suspicion that the horizontal
light strip linking the two taillights will get a parallel strip just below on
the facelifted cars, though Porsche’s test team has carefully hidden it with
tape and disguise on both these prototypes.
You’ll have noticed that the front end
isn’t wearing any disguise at all, but that’s not Porsche being forgetful.
These cars are so early that they still have the current front lights and
bumpers, though later test cars will be fitted with the correct equipment as
the launch nears, including Porsche’s sophisticated new LED headlights that can
see almost 610 m down the road.
We can also expect the 992.2 GT3 and
Touring to gain new fully digital gauge clusters like the one fitted to the
Taycan, and to retain their incredible naturally-aspirated flat-six engines
with a choice of seven-speed PDK and six-speed manual transmissions. That
4.0-liter engine revs to 9,000 rpm and makes 503 hp and 469
Nm in the current GT3 twins, but given what we’ve seen from generational
upgrades in the past, it’s guaranteed that both will get a power boost,
potentially to match the 518 hp of the existing GT3 RS.
