The Porsche 911 GT3 Touring punches above its weight class

The result is a car that feels just as rapid out in the real world as its predecessor. The manual GT3 Touring’s top speed falls from 199 to 194 mph (320 km/h to 312 km/h), but its 0-60 mph (0–100 km/h) time remains the same as the outgoing car at 3.7 seconds (when equipped with the PDK, the GT3 Touring reaches 60 mph in 3.2 seconds and tops out at 193 mph/310 km/h). If anything, the shorter gearing makes the engine’s enormous rev range easier to exploit without requiring speeds that would attract unwanted attention from law enforcement. The 992.2 update also gives the Touring a little more of its own identity. Both GT3 variants get reworked fascias, aerodynamically optimized suspension trailing arms, GT3 RS-derived anti-dive suspension geometry, and revised steering calibration. But Porsche now also offers Touring-specific options, like the new $37,310 Leichtbau package fitted to this test car. And then there’s the flat-six. Even with the additional exhaust hardware and the loss of 15 lb-ft (20 Nm), it remains one of the most captivating naturally aspirated engines in production today. In practice it feels just as urgent as the powerplant in the outgoing car, and the shorter gearing provides more opportunities to explore the upper reaches of its 9,000 rpm redline. The exhaust note may have changed slightly, but you would probably need to listen to a 992.1 and 992.2 side by side to identify the differences, and it certainly hasn’t been choked into submission. Even in Normal mode it’s pretty lively, and if you push the revs over 5,000 rpm in Sport mode, it makes the kind of noise that turns a routine drive into a full-blown event. The problem is that events like these are becoming bracingly expensive. The outgoing US-spec 992.1 GT3 and GT3 Touring ended their run at $184,550. This 2025 model-year car starts at $230,500—nearly $46,000 more—and comes to $289,585 as tested. And for 2026, effectively a carryover year, Porsche adds another $5,300 to the base MSRP.