FIRST LOOK: Manthey Porsche 911 GT3 RS – New Nürburgring King?

The 1048bhp Mercedes AMG One is the production car lap record holder at the Nürburgring… and yet, despite being over 500bhp down on it, the current Porsche 911 GT3 RS would be nipping at its heels all the way around the iconic track. With pace like that, you don’t really need to go faster, do you?

Well, Manthey thinks so. And as such, it’s given us this: the Manthey Performance Kit for Porsche’s track monster. It’s Manthey’s most in-depth upgrade to date, as it must take on the GT3 RS’s trick suspension and clever active aero and go one better.

But wait, before you get sniffy about a tuned Porsche, remember that Manthey is 51% owned by Porsche, so this is essentially a factory car. Manthey and Porsche’s GT department use the same test driver, for instance, and you can buy the new kit through Porsche dealerships.

That, and Manthey is Porsche racing royalty, with multiple class wins at Le Mans, and is just coming off the back of its 911s finishing first and second in the LMGT3 category in this year’s FIA World Endurance Championship. If anyone’s going to know how to make a Porsche faster on track…

How has Manthey waved its magic wand though? Over to Top Gear’s Associate Editor, Tom Ford, for all the answers…

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[TopGear]

Any guesses at a Nürburgring lap time for the Manthey Porsche 911 GT3 RS?

[YachtReport]

Can someone tell Tom the video is not about him but about the car.

[HubbaHubba]

love these videos, but the interviewer needs to stop interrupting the manthey rep, let the guy complete a sentence.

[robinwells]

The interviewer was terrible in this. Shame cos the German bloke was awesome

[watyusay]

This guy felt so disconnected from Michael, Michael does a whole monologue and then this Top Gear guy just says something that is so giga by the script almost like completely ignoring what Michael said.

[clueless]

Manthey DOES NOT MISS.
They are loose cannons. Mad scientists. Laptime wizards. Absolutely mad. Absolutely legendary.

[denisk]

finally perfect daily for life in Monaco

[desertsandfly]

I can only imagine what the next GT2RS is going to be like along with the MR version.

[PatrickSavalle]

Best salesman ever. Very impressed by his knowledge and the way he translates technical things into layman's terms.

[IslamMahimMustasim]

Probably the worst interviewer ive seen for something this amazing, absolute shame, it was hard to watch the video. 13:24 "Youre not doing this by eye" what sort of a question is that.

[gapyrodawg]

When your Sales Rep paid attention in class about the product he sells!!! Dude sounds like he was on developmental team coming up with the improvements on what is already a serious Track Weapon outta the Box. If i could afford a Turbo S this is the color id go with🤤

[thrx]

Beeing in front of the New Service Building, its so cool being able to count 50, no less, GT porsches (gt3, gt3rs, gt4, gt4rs, gt2), different generations, all in one parking lot

[eddieruddock]

My ex gf turned out to be a man Thai 😭

[paulhancock]

Show me the driver who has taken the GT3 RS to its absolute limit and needs 'more' to reach his own potential... I'll wait.

[AntjeDebus]

22:29 🤩THAT was empty grounds all around. Today there's not a square meter available though they enlarged Meuspath industrial area quite a bit.
Thanks TG for this comprehensive video. I am still amazed by the suspension and the 1000 hz signal rate. Ah, and living quite locally I had seen some parts covered in last Saturday's endurance race series 😇

[breadbot]

I'm more interested in the GT2 RS Clubsport 25 in the back tbh

[premonemo]

This is an engineering marvel, they took a vehicle that almost nobody could push to the limits, and made it faster… Why you ask? For the love of performance.

[danharbun]

Love the British racing green in the cover picture looks amazing

[PKP]

So glad the mechanic was there to explain everything.

[DesmoOfficial]

For who maybe didn't understand the equation drag=emission: if you have more drag, you need to push more revs to have the same speed. :)