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Porsche 911 placed the GT RS3, Aston Martin the Vantage Roadster and Bentley the Bator. Why do they do this to us?

Don't bother dreaming, you're really not in their league

One will try to kill you if you're not good enough, the second is so beautiful that it's easy to pass out and the third should be read with a handkerchief for tears

Kenan Cohen

08/21/2022

Sunday, August 21, 2022, 10:58 p.m. Updated: 11:28 p.m.

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Porsche 911 first drive (photo: manufacturer)

While other manufacturers of sports cars such as McLaren and Ferrari are turning to the hybrid solution (whether for the sake of performance or succumbing to the progressive-environmental terror), Porsche, like Porsche understands that alongside fully electric cars or plug-in hybrids, it is also possible to keep faith with gasoline engines that still offer the real experience When it comes to a sports car.

And again, for the fourth time, Porsche presents the RS version of the GT3 version of the 911.

It is another link in the chain of generations in which Porsche offers its customers the closest thing to a pure track car that sanctifies the act of driving - with a boxer engine, six cylinders with a volume of 4.0 liters that breathes without the boost of turbochargers and certainly without anything that even mentions electricity or electric boost to the engine, with Rear-wheel drive and only the 7-ratio dual-clutch gearbox reminds us that, after all, the goal here is to break everything else down on the track.

Holes, receivers, gills, fins and wings - is this a car or an animal?! (Photo: Manufacturer's website)

The engine that continues from the previous generation undergoes treatments that increase power, and now with 525 hp and a red line at 9,000 rpm.

Shorter gear ratios than the GT3 allow it to jump faster to 100 km/h in 0.2 seconds and it will stop the clock at 3.2 seconds, to 200 km/h it will reach in 10.6 seconds and up to a maximum speed of 296 km/h .

But the more interesting parts are the ones that make her so fast.

We will start with the pile of carbon fiber parts (front wings, trunk lid, doors, roof and seats, and those before the extended carbon package), we will continue with a special and specific design for this car of the suspension system, while manufacturers strive to share as many components as possible with each model, in Porsche they did it all This thing is only for this version, to reduce as much as possible the dive of the front part in sharp braking.

The shock absorbers themselves can be calibrated to one of 9 modes for damping, 9 modes for return - for each axis separately.

More on the controls: control of the electronic limited slip differential when entering or exiting the turn (also here, 9 positions for each), seven intervention positions for the traction control and more.

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Eat dust F35, my wing is bigger (photo: manufacturer's website)

Another area where Porsche has taken the GT3 RS to a completely different level is the whole subject of aerodynamics.

This is an investment that I do not remember in a serial road car ever.

In order to succeed in most of the technical part of Porsche's announcement, you need a degree in aeronautical engineering, but even from this limited list you can get dizzy: in the front, active air intakes are installed in the lower part, which channel the air around the front suspension arms to generate more coupling force.

The front wheelhouses have additional air deflectors that should prevent "trapped" air in the wheelhouses from causing disturbances to progress.

Where the trunk of the 911 would normally be is now a system of air ducts that divert it to the sides of the car.

Those in the roof divert the hot air the car passes through away from the engine's air intakes (colder air means more oxygen, better combustion and better performance).

Obsession with aerodynamics (photo: manufacturer website)

The entire bottom of the car is slotted with 14 air deflectors, some of which optimize the flow of air under the car, some of which channel it to cool the brakes and gearbox.

Air deflector in front of the rear wheels flows air towards the rear of the car to improve its stability and grip.

And last but not least, as if you could not notice it - the rear wing, which is higher than the roof of the car and can change its angle depending on the speed and what you want to get out of the car - speed?

The wing moves to a flat position to reduce drag, grip?

It will change its angle in order to pin the car to the ground and there is also the braking mode where it and the other dynamic wings are used like an air stop in an aircraft to slow the car down.

Of course, take the left one (photo: manufacturer's website)

And because Porsche, like Porsche knows how to squeeze the nostalgic lemon to the end, it presents to the American market at least this car also in a green-white paint scheme with green rims and lettering in a style that pays tribute to the 911 Carrera RS of the 70s, the first to present these pair of letters on a company car.

And this time it's not an empty gesture, as unfortunately, this may be the last time we get to see a 911 do what the GT3 RS does.

And finally, we'll do it like a band-aid - at once, maybe it will hurt less - the price of a Porsche 911 GT3 RS in Israel will start at NIS 1.9 million.

They promised it wouldn't be, in the end it was, thanks (photo: manufacturer's website)

The pure soul of Aston Martin

Of all the cars in the world, the sports car is the most absolute expression of driving pleasure, of all the body configurations of sports cars, the two-seater roadster is the one that declares that the driving itself and the enjoyment of it is what is important here.

And when it's a sports car roadster from Aston Martin, well, you get where this is going.

And although in the past it said it wouldn't introduce a V12 version of its small sports car - the Huantage and then it did it with the coupe, and when it did it said it wouldn't introduce a roadster version and here it is now - all we're saying - Aston Martin - please keep lying to us .

First drive: Aston Martin Wantage

First drive: Aston Martin Vantage (manufacturer)

Squeezing Aston's 5.2-liter V12 engine into the little Vantage was no easy challenge.

Both in terms of real estate at the front of the car and in terms of the need to take care of the breathing capacity, cooling, and heat removal of this big heart. Part of the solution was to use components that come from the large DBS under the body of the Vantage, which was extended to add air vents behind the front wheels. The hood itself has been redesigned to accommodate the larger engine, it, like the fenders, is made of carbon fiber.

The engine is the same one used in the DB11 and DBS with 690 hp, driving the rear wheels through an 8-speed planetary gearbox.

These muscles catapult it to 96 km/h in 3.5 seconds and to a maximum of 322 km/h.

The body is inflated and expanded to accommodate the engine (photo: manufacturer's website)

And if we thought that the coupe version with the V12 engine out of its 333 units that was really snapped up was rare, the Vantage V12 Roadster is limited to only 249 units, and at least according to what they say at Aston Martin, it too has already been purchased, even before the official announcement or publication of its price.

We don't know what promise Aston Martin will make, but we can't wait for it.

Celebrating the passing of the gasoline engine with one last and absolute one (photo: manufacturer's website)

Being a millionaire will not be enough here

And after we had fun with a 6-cylinder boxer in a Porsche and a V12 in an Aston Martin, make room, because Bentley brings the swan song of the W12 engine in the Mulliner Bator model.

This car, which is based on the Continental GT, is an ultra-exclusive edition produced in just 18 copies by Mulliner, the ultra-exclusive arm of Bentley, named after one of the best coachbuilders of the 1920s.

The Mulliner Bator (the name of a lake in Bali) will serve as a kind of link between Bentley on its huge engines and the future design language of the manufacturer's next-generation cars - the electric ones.

When Bentley says "flagship" it really is that (photo: manufacturer's website)

Yes, in a way that only a company like Bentley can do, it seeks to show the future direction in which it will go with electric models, the first of which in 2025 through a car that celebrates with a 6.0-liter W12 engine in this edition, the last and "ultimate" according to Bentley, a producer 729 hp, 80 horses more than the most powerful version of the Continental "Speed" to date. Recalibration of the engine, a new intake manifold, an upgraded turbocharger join the use of assemblies we have already met in the Continental GT such as air shocks, stabilizer bars that are operated by an electric motor , electronic limited slip differential, ceramic and carbon fiber brakes, 22 rims and more.

The laser engraving of the sound wave produced by Bentley's W12 engine (photo: manufacturer's website)

We know that it is precisely its design that should be the important story, but trust us that we have spared you the agony of reading sentences like "The term we use is 'posture of an animal at rest' - imagine a lion or a tiger, lying down in an attack position in the tall grass. The powerful form of power Absolute at rest, which looks fast even when it's static" Oish his position... But really, of all the chatter around, we can't give up on one, do you see this picture of the A/C opening and the graph across the dashboard?

You are looking at a laser engraving of the sound wave produced by Bentley's W12 engine.

One day our children or grandchildren will look at us strangely when we play them the music of the last generation of real cars built by this company.

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