Rennsport hero, meet Rennsport hero. But which is better?
Days like this don’t come around often. For sure, it’s one of those pinch-yourself-kind-of days that, well, even having worked in this industry for a while, seems a bit surreal. Yet here I am. In Stuttgart, standing in front of a very grey and unexciting-looking building tucked away in a nondescript part of town.
A key part of the RS formula is shedding weight. So the 964 RS came with an alloy bonnet, thinner glass and no rear seats. There were fewer luxuries, too, with manually adjustable bucket seats, manual windows and you moved the door mirror glass by poking it with your finger. How quaint. Of course, there was no air con and even the factory alarm was left on the shelf in that quest for lightness – a hell of a risky move when you think of the enthusiastic early ‘90s joy-riding scene.
The driving position is a little curious as well – even for an air-cooled 911. The seats are trimmed nicely in leather and the semi-buckets pinch you at the hips. That bit is fine, but the fixed backrests are quite reclined. Now, I favour a fairly upright stance, and that’s what I’d expected in an RS. Here though I feel like one of those ‘kids’ you see in a lowered, blacked-out hot hatch: lent back at the kind of jaunty angle more suited to a chaise lounge.
The blueprint for the 993 Carrera RS reads much the same as the 964’s. It had the same attention to weight saving, right down the smallest detail: the intermittent wiper function was removed, just one small interior lamp was left, and the Carrera 2’s 6.5-litre washer bottle was squished to 1.2. Overall, it weighed 1,270kg – again, 100kg less than the 993 Carrera 2. It had the same-sized 322mm discs all round as the 964 RS, vented and drilled, with 18-inch wheels and fatter tyres .
The roll cage is the sort that makes me feel even older than I am because it means sliding over the side beam with all the dexterity of a half-arsed high jumper. Once that undignified bit is over, I look around and, yep, it’s basically a racing car in here. Bar some mats and a relatively normal dashboard, there’s nothing: pull-chord door releases, no headlining, and no back seats, obviously.
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