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Mar 14, The Porsche Carrera GT model most recently came to fame as the car in which " Fast and Furious" star Paul Walker died. This was a prototype.

The Porsche Carrera GT (Project Code ) is a mid-engine sports car that was manufactured Porsche at the time had planned on a new Le Mans prototype for The car was initially intended to use a turbocharged flat-6, but was later.

Feb 29, Porsche Carrera GT Prototype for auction and for sale by Gooding & Company in Amelia Island Read more on.

As for the engine, while it is the same race-bred V10 unit, it has bhp whereas the production model had just over Retrieved 1 December Webarchive template wayback links Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers. Bruce Canepa bought the car from Jerry and added it to his magnificent collection of rare exotic and vintage cars which also includes a bespoke McLaren P1.

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A lot of people seem to think that it started life as a Le Mans engine, however, this is incorrect, here is the true story.

There was a reason for this, the engines were funded by a company of the name TAG, which held the naming rights to the engine. Porsche however, had their name stamped on the plenum cover. So where did all this success take Porsche?

In Porsche powered the Footwork F1 team with a V12, it was quite bad, so bad in fact that Footwork dumped Porsche and switched to Ford engines right in the middle of the season. Whilst all this happened, Porsche was developing a new engine for the season, a 3. Unfortunately, due to Footwork cancelling the deal, Porsche was left with an unused F1 engine.

The 9R3 was the car that was suited to use the F1 engine, but not before Porsche did some work to it to make it Le Mans ready. Porsche increased the capacity to both 5. Unfortunately, Porsche hit some financial strife, so the LMP1 car was cancelled. Porsche needed a cash injection, they only saw that this would happen with the introduction of a new model that will appeal to a wider audience, one that can transport a family, what else than a SUV?

Since the introduction of the Cayenne in , Porsche now had enough money to proceed with creating the Porsche Carrera GT. Porsche decided to grab the old V10 F1 engine off the shelf, bump the displacement to 5. It is a degree V10 that had cylinder liners coated with Nikasil Nickel and Silicon solution just like every other F1 engine. This mated to its perfect 6 speed manual gearbox, is what you call the perfect drivers car. It is worth noting that the Carrera GT is the first production car to utilise a carbon-fibre reinforced plastic CFRP monocoque chassis.

The chassis was based on the Le mans wining GT1 and weighs pounds. Unlike most other hypercars, the Porsche Carrera GT draws all of its cutting edge performance aides directly from motorsports, with an engine derived from an F1 program, a chassis from a Le Mans winning car, what more could you want from one of the greatest Porsche's ever made, the Carrera GT.

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