---
title: "Porsche Confirms 2018 911 GT3 With 500 Horsepower And Optional 6-Speed Manual Transmission"
description: "We're betting everyone that paid over a million dollars for a 911R feels like a fool right about now"
date: "2017-03-07"
modified: "2017-03-07"
authors:
  - name: "Bradley Brownell"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/bradley-brownell"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/porsche/8132/porsche-confirms-2018-911-gt3-with-500-horsepower-and-optional-6-speed-manual-transmission"
categories:
  - "News"
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  - "Coupe"
  - "Geneva"
  - "GT3"
  - "Leaked"
  - "luxury"
  - "porsche"
  - "Press Release"
  - "sports car"
---

# Porsche Confirms 2018 911 GT3 With 500 Horsepower And Optional 6-Speed Manual Transmission

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There are still a few hours to go before the official unveiling of the 911 GT3 at the Geneva Auto Show, but Porsche dropped the press release a few hours early. By accident, we're sure. This press release was posted initially without any photographs, and it's since been deleted from Porsche's press site (but you can [read a copy here on the Rennlist Forum](<https://rennlist.com/forums/991-gt3-gt3rs-and-911r/978863-official-991-2-gt3-release-confirmed-500hp-4-0-and-manual-option.html>)). When the car officially launches tonight, we'll have some photos here for you.

The gist of things, it would seem, this is the 'mystery' two-seat, motorsport-inspired, daily-drivable sports car Porsche gave us one sentence about last week, and it's basically a 911R without the insane price tag. Using the same 4-liter 500-horsepower flat-six that Porsche built for the current GT3 RS and 911R, mated to either the GT3 RS' 7-speed PDK dual clutch or critically the 6-speed manual transmission from the 911R.

The new GT3 is stated at 3,153 pounds when equipped with a PDK transmission, which is give-or-take the same as the old GT3. With the dual clutch equipped, this car will wail to sixty miles per hour in just 3.2 seconds and keep running to a top speed of 197 miles per hour. If you want to run the gears with your right hand, you can opt for the 6-speed stick, for which you're given a 40-pound weight advantage. However, your 0-60 time will suffer with the manual, making the run in 3.8 seconds, but you'll gain one mile per hour on the top end (198 miles per hour).

There is a new front fascia, and out back there is a carbon fiber wing and a new rear diffuser, but aside from that things look to be mostly the same. Inside the car, you'll get the 14.1 inch diameter 918 Spyder-inspired steering wheel, and you have a choice between three seat options (Sport Seats Plus, Adaptive Sport Seats Plus, or non-adjustable carbon fiber buckets).

As with the old 911 GT3, you'll still get rear axle steering, active engine mounts, and a rear locking differential. It should drive quite similarly to the prior GT3, though with a smidge more power. That is to say, it'll drive really well.

Porsche says the 2018 GT3 is on the docket for a fourth-quarter 2017 delivery, and you can order one up for just a base MSRP of $143,600. Considering this is a very similar specification to the $184,900 911R, it's seeming like something of a performance bargain right now.

\[Note: The photo above is of the 991.1 GT3. Porsche has not yet released photographs of the 991.2 GT3. Watch this space for more soon.\]

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