The magnificent Porsche Carrera GT.
For a limited time at Porsche Centre Brisbane.
For a strictly limited time, the Porsche Centre Brisbane showroom is proud to play host to a magnificent example of the Porsche Carrera GT.
This specific vehicle, a 2004 build Porsche Carrera GT, fittingly finished in ‘Carrera GT Silver’, is part of an extensive private vehicle collection. In Australia there have only been a handful of chances, in recent years, to inspect the very few Porsche Carrera GTs to make it to these shores.
Porsche Centre Brisbane is grateful to the owner for the opportunity to display this truly stunning example of Porsche sports car engineering.
Highlights
Through its design language alone, the Carrera GT expresses its truly outstanding performance as an uncompromising, no-nonsense supersports. The typical Porsche face with the front lid swept back like an arrow and the elevated wheel arches, for example, take up the design of Porsche's legendary sports cars. The mid-engine concept is clearly accentuated by the forward-moving cockpit, and the long gap between the door and the rear axle.
Thoroughbred Ten-Cylinder Racing Engine
The ten-cylinder power unit with dry sump lubrication behind the cockpit of the Carrera GT is based on a 5.5-litre V10 normal-aspiration engine which might well have been raced in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, given its qualities as a genuine racing machine. Engine capacity has been increased to 5.7 litres for the production car, enabling the power unit of the Carrera GT, with its tremendous performance, to meet all requirements for circuit racing and at the same time providing all the qualities required in everyday motoring.
Indeed, the Carrera GT clearly proves its status as a supersports for the road through its performance data alone: Maximum output is 450 kW (612) at 8000 rpm, maximum torque 590 Newton-metres (435 lb-ft) at 5750 rpm. Top speed, in turn, is 330 km/h or 205 mph, the Carrera GT entering new dimensions through its acceleration from 0 – 100 km/h in just 3.9 seconds, and 0 – 200 km/h in a staggering 9.9 seconds.
Chassis and Module Frame Forming a Closely-Knit Team
The Carrera GT was the first production car in the world with a monocoque chassis and module frame made of carbon-fibre reinforced plastic (CFP). Carbon, a material carried over from the most sophisticated aerospace applications, is elaborately processed and finished on the car in providing the foundation for supreme performance and driving dynamics combined with minimum weight and maximum strength. Here again, Porsche's engineers have transferred the great demands made on the race track to a road-going sports car for regular use, giving the Carrera GT not only outstanding performance, but also supreme safety all in one.
Same Underfloor as a Racing Car
With a top speed of 330 km/h or 205 mph, aerodynamics are a crucial factor. To maximise the down-forces acting on the Carrera GT, the car features underfloor geometry of the same kind otherwise to be found only on racing cars: Interacting with the rear diffuser and airflow channels, the fully covered carbon underfloor generates a suction effect quite unusual on a road-going vehicle of any kind.
Supersports for the Road
The Carrera GT is the open two-seater in the classic open supersports segment. But that does not mean that bad weather will keep the Carrera GT in the garage, since the car comes with a specially developed, easy-to-use roof system made of two individual lightweight carbon shells each weighing 2.4 kilos or 5.3 lb and removable by means of rapid-action catches for subsequent storage in the front luggage compartment.
The design of the car is determined throughout by aerodynamic requirements. The main criterion in designing the body of the car was the consideration of genuine racing conditions on the track requiring high down-forces. At its top speed of 330 km/h or 205 mph, the Carrera GT develops a down-force of approximately 4,000 Newton, equal to a load pressing on the rear axle of 400 kilos.
Elaborate geometry on the underfloor also serves to maximise down-forces, without at the same time exerting a negative influence on the car's drag coefficient. With its rear diffuser and airflow channels, the fully covered underfloor made of composite carbon-fibre generates a suction effect quite unusual on a road car.