This is the name of the show/podcast they’re talking about. The guest is here for that, plus an event.
Car
Cabriolet
A Cabriolet is an open-top car with a fabric (soft) roof that can be lowered. Here, the speaker says the announced car is a cabriolet rather than the Speedster they expected, and frames it as still being a “proper GT car.”
Car
Speedster
A Speedster is a type of open-top Porsche. It’s usually designed to feel light and sporty, with less “enclosure” than a normal convertible.
“GT3 Touring” is a Porsche GT3 version meant to be more comfortable for normal driving. They’re saying the new car is like that, but with the roof open.
“Skunk work” describes an internal, experimental development effort—often small and informal—where engineers prototype ideas outside the usual process. The speaker says this GT open-top concept started as that kind of experimental project.
This is a convertible roof that moves automatically with a button or motor. The goal is to make it easier to deal with weather without stopping and doing everything by hand.
The Honda Element is a compact crossover with a simple, box-like shape. It’s designed to be practical and flexible inside, so it’s easy to use for everyday life. People also talk about it as being fun and rewarding to drive.
“Time to market” is how long it takes from starting a project to getting a product available for customers. The speaker uses it to explain why they didn’t choose a different open-top model: new regulations would have delayed the launch.
“New emission laws” refers to updated government regulations that limit exhaust pollutants and can force automakers to change engines, emissions hardware, or calibration. In this segment, they’re cited as a major reason to avoid developing a more complex new model.
Homologation is the paperwork and testing needed to get a car approved for sale in a region. If you change the car a lot, you may need to repeat part of that approval process.
In manufacturing, “tooling” is the specialized equipment and molds used to build parts—especially body panels and structural components. The speaker notes that new body parts would require new tooling, adding cost and time.
That’s a Porsche 911 from the 993 generation, and it’s a convertible. It’s the kind of classic 911 people keep because it feels special to drive with the top down.
They’re talking about a Porsche 718 Spider RS—an open-top sports car. They’re also describing how it feels in real-world driving, like when it gets hot and you’re stuck in traffic.
“Mid-engine” means the engine sits more toward the middle of the car instead of the front. That can make the car feel more balanced and easier to drive fast through corners.
They mean the engine is tuned like something you’d find in racing. The goal is usually sharper throttle response and a more exciting, high-performance character.
Term
intake system directly behind your ears
Because the engine is closer to you in a mid-engine car, you can hear more of what’s happening—like the intake sound. It makes the driving experience feel more intense.
PDK is Porsche’s dual-clutch automatic gearbox. It changes gears fast and smoothly, and it can be especially convenient in traffic because you don’t have to keep working the clutch.
A Porsche Boxster is a sporty two-seat convertible/roadster. It’s known for being fun to drive, and the speaker says it shares some traits with the other Porsche they’re excited about.
A production line is the factory setup where cars are assembled. The point here is that the factory can’t make unlimited numbers of one model because the same line is used for multiple cars.
Pre-series cars are early versions made before the car is fully in production. They help engineers and Porsche confirm everything is ready, and they may also be used for photos and videos.
In automotive development and media prep, “camouflage” is temporary bodywork or coverings used to hide final styling details from the public. Removing it and “polishing the car” signals the vehicle is being prepared for reveal/press use.
A development car is an early version of a vehicle used to test new engineering ideas. It’s not always the exact final customer-spec car, but it helps prove the design works.
GT silver is a specific silver paint color on a Porsche. The discussion is basically: “What exact silver is that?” and whether it’s a special factory option.
PTS is Porsche’s program for special, more customized paint and interior choices. Saying it’s “not PTS” means the color is probably a regular factory option rather than a super-custom one.
This is a spray can you activate inside the car to make the cabin smell better. You run the fan and close the windows so the scent spreads through the air.
Reddastine is a tire brand. The host says they put Reddastine tires on their car and noticed the ride got quieter and the tires stopped having slow leaks.
“Spec” just means how the car is set up when you order it—like the color and options. They’re saying the car they’re driving isn’t configured the way they would choose.
Wheel finish and color are part of a car’s visual “spec.” Dark silver wheels can change how the car’s body color reads in photos and in person, especially when paired with contrasting paint colors.
A “camo livery” is basically a camouflage look put on a test car. It helps hide the real design so people can’t easily figure out what it will look like when it’s finished.
The Nürburgring is a well-known race track in Germany. Car makers test cars there because it’s challenging, and it’s also a place where lots of people watch and photograph prototypes.
A “wrap” here means a temporary covering film put over the car. It helps hide what the final car will look like, without adding bulky parts that could affect how the car cools or how it moves through the air.
The Porsche 911 GT3 is a high-performance 911 made for fast driving. It’s usually more track-oriented, but the “touring” version they’re talking about aims to make it easier and nicer to live with.
“Wing car” is shorthand for a GT3 configuration with a prominent rear wing, which is used to increase aerodynamic downforce. Andy contrasts the wing car with the touring spec, implying the wing car is the more track-focused look/feel.
Manual transmissions let the driver select gears using a clutch and gear lever, rather than relying on an automatic gearbox. Andy emphasizes that Porsche’s customers—especially for the touring spec—prefer manuals, and he uses take-rate numbers to show how strongly that preference holds.
Concept
race technology, but it's wolf in a shape skin
This is a metaphor describing how the touring concept hides race-derived performance under a more classic, road-friendly appearance. The “wolf in a sheep’s skin” idea is used to say it looks conventional, but it still has serious performance underneath.
“Buckets” refers to bucket-style racing seats with a deeper shape that supports the body and helps keep you positioned during spirited driving. Andy notes they’re harder to get in and out of, but he argues they’re a better fit for his body size and improve the overall driving proposition.
Bose makes car audio systems. The host is saying that on this GT3 variant, the good sound system is already included.
Concept
overthink it
The host is basically saying you don’t need to obsess over every option. Sometimes the simplest choices—like the right seats and brakes—matter more than adding lots of extras.
They’re comparing a more standard sporty seat to a bucket-style seat. Some people prefer the standard sports seat because it fits their body better.
Concept
deludes a GT3 idea
“Deludes a GT3 idea” is about keeping a car’s identity “pure” to what enthusiasts expect from a GT3-style track-focused package. The speaker implies that adding lots of styling/comfort elements (like extra leather details) could dilute that motorsport-focused intent.
McLaren is a British supercar and sports-car brand. The hosts mention sitting on the McLaren in the context of having clear glass and a button-controlled feature, implying similar cabin/roof experiences across brands.
The Porsche Taycan is an electric car made by Porsche. It’s designed to feel like a performance car while running on electricity instead of gasoline. The podcast mentions it in connection with its in-car features and controls.
Term
4k compound
This sounds like a special coating used on the car’s surface. The goal is to make the color look different depending on the angle and lighting.
A patent is like a legal “claim” on a new idea. It helps the company stop other people from using the same idea for a while, so they can justify spending money to turn it into a real product.
The Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith is an old luxury car from the 1950s. Andy is making a funny point that it supposedly had very unusual “extra” features for its time.
The Rolls-Royce Wraith is a very high-end luxury car. It’s built to be comfortable for long drives. The episode mentions it because some related Rolls-Royce versions had unusual built-in features like a television.
Horsepower is a number that describes how strong the engine is. More horsepower can make a car feel faster, but the speaker argues it also usually means the car needs more brakes and can be heavier.
Brakes are what slow the car down. The speaker’s point is that if a car is heavier, it usually needs stronger brakes to stop safely.
Term
ratios of the gears
Gear ratios describe how the transmission multiplies engine speed and torque at the wheels. The speaker suggests that as vehicle weight and power increase, manufacturers may use different gear ratios to keep acceleration and drivability in a usable range.
They’re talking about laws that limit things like how loud a car can be and how it has to meet regulations. That can stop manufacturers from making the most extreme-sounding versions.
A “halo car” is a special, attention-grabbing car a brand makes to make people excited about the whole lineup. It’s usually more about image and technology than about selling huge numbers.
Term
hybrid V8 supercar hypercar
They’re talking about a very high-end performance car that uses both a V8 engine and an electric system. The goal is to make it faster and more advanced than a typical sports car.
A modular flooring system is made of separate pieces that connect together. It’s usually quicker to put down and easier to fix if one part gets damaged.
The Porsche 356 is an older Porsche sports car. It’s important because it’s part of Porsche’s early history. Enthusiasts talk about it because it’s a classic model that many collectors value.
Targa Tasmania is a driving event in Australia where cars do timed sections on real roads. It’s the kind of event where the car has to handle long days and changing road conditions.
The Porsche Carrera GT is a very high-performance supercar made by Porsche. It’s designed for serious driving performance, not everyday commuting. The episode brings it up as a dream “GT” choice.
A manual gearbox is the stick shift where you choose the gears yourself. It usually makes the car feel more connected to the driver because you control when the engine revs.
The paddock is the busy area at a race track where teams hang out and work on the cars between runs. It’s not the track itself—it’s where the team prepares everything.
Term
big engine
They mean having a powerful engine. The point is that horsepower by itself doesn’t guarantee a great driving experience—you need the rest of the car to match.
Term
studio guys
They mean the design team that works on how the car looks. The speaker is saying the early design work matters a lot for the finished car.
It’s a design idea that says the car’s shape should be based on what it needs to do. So the vents, body shape, and airflow aren’t just for looks—they’re there for a reason, and the styling works around that.
This is the stage after the car is ready, when it goes out to customers. The company watches what real drivers think so they can judge whether the car is working as intended.
Dealerships are the retail businesses that sell cars to customers, and the speaker argues that the factory often can’t directly control dealership allocation or sales practices. That separation can make supply and access questions harder to answer.
The speaker attributes the difficulty in getting cars to a “shortage,” meaning demand exceeds supply. They also connect it to limited production capacity, which prevents the brand from making as many cars as the market wants.
“Limited production capacities” means the factories can only build a certain number of vehicles within a given time. When capacity is constrained, even strong demand can’t be met quickly, which contributes to shortages and long waits.
The Chevrolet Impala is a large American car. It’s known more for being comfortable and practical than for being a race car. People mention it as a classic choice when talking about American cars.
The speaker praises the Chevrolet Corvette, specifically noting it as a mid-engine car. The Corvette’s layout and chassis tuning are part of why it can feel very composed and “right” to drive compared with many front-engine sports cars.
That “991.2 GT3 RS” is a specific Porsche 911 variant. It’s the more track-oriented GT3 RS, built on the 991.2 generation of the 911, and it’s designed to feel very sharp and fast on a circuit.
The Golf is a compact car that’s meant for everyday driving. It’s known for being practical and generally well put together. The podcast mentions it as a car the host respects.
They’re talking about a very special, high-performance Ford called the GTD. They haven’t driven it themselves yet, but they’re impressed by the engineering and how quickly it’s supposed to be.
They’re talking about Stuttgart, a major German city tied to car engineering. It’s often used as shorthand for the Porsche-style design and development culture.
The Porsche 968 is a Porsche from the 1990s that’s based on the 944 family. They’re suggesting it could be reimagined today, and people already visualize that idea online.
The Porsche 944 is a Porsche from the 1980s that doesn’t use the classic rear-engine layout. Here, they’re talking about bringing that kind of car back in a modern form.
“Touring-like” means a car that’s set up for enjoyable everyday driving and longer trips, not just racing. They’re imagining a version of a track-focused Porsche that’s easier to live with.
The Porsche Carrera RS is a special, more performance-oriented version of the 911. It’s made to feel more focused on driving and handling. The episode mentions the 2.7 Carrera RS as an especially good base for performance.
A “ducktail” is a small rear spoiler on some cars. It helps the car stick to the road, and here they’re saying they’d remove it for a different, less aggressive style.
Term
ST
“ST” is being used as shorthand for a car that’s meant to feel more like a fun street/road driver than a full-on track machine. They’re describing how they’d change the look and vibe to match that goal.
Lamborghini is a famous supercar brand. The speaker is joking that you’ll see lots of them at the event.
LIVE
Welcome. Here we are, Andy Pruniger. This is a big show for us. Why? Why? Let me explain
why, Andy. We're portion nuts here mostly. Hopefully. Right? And we have, look, we've
had a lot of celebrities on our stage. We have a lot of Christian Bale, Matt Damon,
you know, some big names. Yeah. But for us, no one's bigger than Andreas Pruniger. Thank
you. The guy who creates our favorite cars in the world, the guy who knows many secrets,
which he will spill today, certainly. They sent him with a handler, Cameron. Did you notice
they brought the Porsche handler? I didn't see that. Because he knows so much about the future
of Porsche, but they got to make sure we don't get in trouble. Actually, I don't need him because
I know quite well, so what I can tell you and what I rather shouldn't be as frank and open as
always as I can, as I'm allowed to, because if they fire me, so. Oh, they're not firing you.
That's never going to happen. Like I said, you say that you've been on the show once or twice
before? Once. I think it was once with Frank Steffen Valizer. It was maybe three or four years ago.
Maybe five. You said the same thing. I might say, you may ask me a question,
may say something, get fired. I said, Andy, they can never fire you. You've got so many hits.
Never, never say never, but I'm just kidding. You're like Billy Joel.
Billy Joel? You're like Sabrina Carpenter. I'm just trying to cover all the different generations.
Anyway, thank you for stopping by here. You're in town for Aaron Water.
Yeah. For Aaron Water and for Spikes Car Radio. And Spikes Car Radio.
What? But let's talk about Aaron Water. Why'd you fly in for that?
I mean, it's one of the biggest one-mate gatherings that we have in the world.
Our customers, I mean, our customer base in the States is huge in California. It's even bigger.
So this is the epicenter of Porsche fandom here. And it's done by Patrick Long, who's
very well acquainted to us. To me personally, and Jeff Swart, people I like, people I appreciate.
And when they're doing a show, I'm trying to be on site and talk to the customers,
talk to the fans and be a fellow enthusiast for this couple of hours and enjoy the cars,
enjoy the California sun and the vibe. And that's why I'm here.
Do you feel famous when you walk around there? Do people recognize you?
Yeah, the people recognize me. But I'm not a person. I'm not a person that likes to stand
in the middle of being the center of attention, actually. That's not what I feel comfortable
with, but it came with the job. Because obviously, I'm doing this for such a long time,
I think this is unparalleled in the industry, that they let somebody do the same thing for more
than two decades. And most of the cars, I would say, and maybe all of them have become a great
success and created a kind of a religion. And I seem to be the pope of this religion in a way.
But I enjoy really, I'm a very approachable person, so I enjoy really to talk to the guys.
And sometimes it's fun to be a little bit famous.
What do we call this religion, the pope of this religion? What are we calling it?
The religion, I mean, the GT religion. The GT.
GTism, I don't know. GTism. Well, let's talk about GTism. Let's talk about some of these cars.
There was a car just announced the other day. Let's start there.
2027, you're going to be making a GT3 SC. Right.
And I'll be honest with you, I was a little confused by it.
Everybody was.
I was expecting a Speedster and then comes along Cabriolet. Here it is right up here,
up on the monitor there. Tell us what we need to know. Give us a point of view perspective on
this. What am I missing? I don't know what you know. That's why I don't know what you're missing.
But the point in this car is definitely, let's put it like that. It's an everyday Speedster.
As I put in my last Instagram post, it's a Speedolet or a cabster. So it's not a convertible
only a cabriolet because it's a true and proper GT car. It's the open version of what we have sitting
here, the GT3 Touring. And it came natural in a way because it was really a skunk work thing.
Like most of the products start their life as a skunk work thing that we maybe think of ourselves
and as a prototype trying to get together in our workshop. Sometimes after hours,
even GT2 RS was an example as well. And we had these two cars, this convertible from our dear
colleagues from the standard development for Carrera. And we had a car that would go to the
scrappers as well, the GT3. And we just said, okay, let's build a GT3 cabriolet and see how
it feels. See what it does to us. It's maybe diluting the GT3 idea a little bit because a
cabriolet with a fully automated roof, it's not exactly the purism that we normally strive for.
But at the other hand, we had so many customers having a Spyder RS or a Speedster that always
complained about the fumbling around at the top. And they wanted to like close it and open it
more easily, especially in Europe. Because even in summertime, you have rain showers and
there's a necessity even in summertime to close the car from now on then. And sometimes you don't
use it because you don't want to stop every time in a lay by and doing all this manually. So we
thought, okay, let's try to incorporate a fully automated roof, a cabriolet roof on a GT3 that
is hardcore as it can be with in all of the rest of the components lightweight manual and manual
still matter. And that the outcome Mr. 911 SC and it's called SC because we called it internally
the sport cabriolet. And SC reminds on the ST as well, it's not an open ST, but it's not an open
touring. It's a mixture of both. And it's a very hardcore car. It's super, super fun to drive. So
rewarding. So emotional. Because this element of driving open is for me added value. Because
it's just different to be in an open car and feel this GT sound is GT vibe in an open car,
despite of having the chance to close it by just a button. Right. No, I thought I was very much
surprised by it. And there was no consideration to doing another speedster. You just thought it
to be honest, and to be fair, we have to look at time to market as well. Because we have this
uncomfortable situation in Europe where there's a new emission laws coming right in big steps in
27. And if we would have done a speed so it would have cost us a lot more time at least one year
more. Really? Yeah, absolutely. All the new body parts, the tooling you need for that and
the homologation of a complete new model with a drive train, it's already existing.
This is most of it is bureaucracy stuff, but it takes a lot of time. And time to market would
have been delayed by at least a year. And that would have given us a time frame or time window to
produce and sell the car in Europe for maybe a year. And that would be the problem again that
everybody would be yelling at us, there's not enough cars. So we had to make our minds up and
find a solution that we have a longer production run. And this caprioli idea came in handy. And so
we tried it. And that was the situation how this car came about. And I'm a caprioli guy myself,
to be honest. And I like to drive open. I have a 993 convertible at home, which I use as a reset
button to enjoy classic cars as well and get new ideas. And it's always good to be able to open
the top, maybe more in Europe as over here, but the sun's beating down on you. We don't have that.
No, I mean, you know, you know, I have a 718 Spider RS in a ratio green, and I was in it this
weekend in the sun on a beautiful day. And then it got really hot. And I went, all right, I normally
would put the top up at this point. But you got too lazy. All the traffic didn't allow it to turn.
Look, don't get me wrong. I love the analog top in the 718. And by the way, one of my favorite cars
that you've designed ever. I mean, there's some other ones. It's in my top three list as well.
What is it about this car that, and I told you before the show, we bought this thing and I thought,
well, we'll keep it for a couple months and get rid of it. I still have it. I am in love with it.
I'm driving it more than anything. I drove it. I'm driving it more than the ST when I drove
the ST and had the ST. What is that? What am I? What's so great about this greatness that you've
created? I think it's the side of the car. It's the mid-engine layout. It's the motorsport engine
in this package. It's the sound. It's the intake system directly behind your ears. And maybe it's
a little bit of PDK as well, because it's just a great daily driver. Because when you're in traffic
here, and I'm here for one day, but I think it's at least four hours in traffic here in Los Angeles
and driving this touring, this manual, I can see the point where people want PDK around here.
So it's not another car for the city. And the Spyder RS is just a car that you like from the
vibes. It oozes. And it makes a big impression on your emotional system. It does. You're exactly
right. I'm in the market for one too, to be honest. You don't have one? No. My garage is not as big
as yours. You know what's nice? I've always loved the Boxster. And it was the very first new car
that I bought was a Boxster. And it has elements of that in it. And then it has elements of a GT
car in it. And you are able to drive two different cars with different people in the passenger seat.
And it's really a nice, like you say, it's a car you can drive all the time in lots of different
right onto the racetrack. And then right up to Malibu with your wife who doesn't want anything
loud. This is why you sometimes complain about the noise, because that's the only point I would
say. I mean, in a Spyder RS after two hours, it's an intense, rewarding driving experience.
But it's loud at times. There's nothing wrong with it. Just to commute back and forth for some
people. It's a little bit extreme, but we like extremes. Well, I'm excited about this guy.
And our friends at Porsche Clearwater offered us an allocation. Well, here, let me ask you
about that. Now, I know production isn't limited. But realistically, how many of these things do
we see them making? I mean, we have one product production line in Sufenhausen. So we have to
share it with all the other sought after models as well. So and we make our estimates with the
markets that sell that the car will be introduced in. And we got a rough estimate of how many cars
our market think they could sell or they want to sell. Sometimes they're wrong. And everybody beats
on me again. But it will be definitely more than what we had on the ST with 1900. It will be at
least double that or even more. But we can't do 10,000 of that. The time is simply the time
spent in two years that we can sell it is just too short. And we can't make like 50 of these a day.
But you're making an effort, unlike the ST, to get one to folks who didn't get these other cars,
which is nice. And it has elements of the ST in it, then design elements of it. And it's got a
sound and it's got a manual gearbox. And you'll have a nice experience. Absolutely. So I'm going
to get one. So I've built 10 of these so far. And with no luck, Zuckerman and I are going to share
one. But then the other day, you posted this one on Instagram right here. Yeah, that was yesterday
night. And holy shit. It hit me like a lightning bolt. It's a looker in silver, isn't it? Is this
your car or just one of the press cars? This is one of the cars, one of the pre series cars
that used to be black. And this special car is the car that Chris Harris used for his video.
Oh, it's for his video. He drifted that thing. I saw it already. The proving grounds in Weissach.
And we just took the took the took the camouflage off on the 14th of April and polished the car.
And this is a former development car. It has 15,000 kilometers, something like that.
And I used it last weekend when I when I make those pictures. And it's in front of a house of a
friend. And I said, Hey, it looks so cool here. I have to just make some photos. And it's a very
classy color combination. I love silver wheels. I hate dark wheels, because the wheels are so
important. It's like shoes on a person. Yeah, you're right. Right in the way in a black color.
So this is definitely when I get my new GT3 touring, don't look at the wheels. Okay.
Do you look like first and left a comment there. He says, what silver is this? I didn't even look
back here. If you go down, did Andy reply? Yeah, sure. Is it if Spike asks something? How can
I know? There it is. So that's GT silver. Yeah, I think it's just GT silver. It's not PTS. Nothing
special. It's GT silver. Everybody cannot. Should we do our car like this? I love it. I mean, it's
really cool. Look at that thing. It's classic. It's not obtrusive. It looks very nice. I mean,
all of the guys and the ladies, whoever, they're all specking cars at home. You get to just go
to him. Should I do this? He goes, yes. And it's done. Like your, that story you just told at
Chris Harris, which is the first video I watched. And then to this color, the way it hit me, it's
done. I have no equivocation. That's what I'm going to order. Yeah, do that. It's fantastic. It's
not obtrusive. It's down to earth. It's still racy. That's the way I want GT cars to look. I like
the red as well. But the more I look at the silver, I think I would opt for the silver as well.
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been said about the GT3 Touring, but this is a new color, right? Oak green metallic. It's called
Oak Green Neo. It stands for the new composition of this color. It's a little bit more sparkly than
the original classic Oak Green, which we have since decades, I think. I like it a lot because it's
a little bit fresher than the old one, a little bit more shiny, a little bit more sporty. This is
a car that a nice colleague from PC&A lent me for being here and for using it here around LA.
Actually, it's not the way I would spec it, to be honest, because I think...
Well, right away, I'm noticing it doesn't have your wheels. You like silver wheels.
Exactly. It has dark silver wheels, so it's silver at least.
Can I tell you, that's what I ordered on my car. I did yachting blue metallic with these wheels.
I can accept that. It's good. It depends on the color. And with yellow and dark silver,
it looks beautiful. But it needs a little... Every car in my book needs a little bit of a contrast
of dark and bright. And if it's all too dark, it looks like a black car with black wheels.
I hate it because maybe because all our development cars are camouflaged in black and have to have
black wheels because on a black wheel, you don't recognize the shape. And you can't camouflage
a wheel with some plastic parts because... Have you ever thought about putting out a camo livery?
A camo livery? So it comes like the test car? There are people that would buy that?
Camo livery. We only use the black, the flat black. That's not very attractive.
But when I see these pictures on the internet, you guys know, you don't care that stuff's being
leaked, do you? I mean, there's always leaks because we have to test the cars under normal
road conditions. We have our workshops at the Nürburgring and you wouldn't believe how many
paparazzi are lying in the bushes around the Nürburgring and you can't put the nose of a car
out of the workshop and then you're clicking everywhere. Do you care? Do you get upset?
You say, don't take a picture? We think very hard of how to camouflage the cars and the uglier
they are, the better. But when you're approaching like the last pre-series, then you have to really
have the car for testing in the original shape without any plastic parts that have aerodynamic
effect as a matter of fact and cooling effect. And so you have to get rid of those. And that's
the point when the car is all just in a flat black, what do you call it? Wrap. So you can really
see exactly what the later product will look like. But it's mostly only a couple weeks before
start of production anyway. This is part of the tension that we want to keep up a little.
Yeah, no, I get excited when I see that stuff. It makes me absolutely crazy. All right, just tell
us two or three things that we don't know about this car that you haven't said already. You told
us about the color. I mean the color, the color we talked about and I think this car needs
bright wheels and it needs the window trim and chrome and the exhaust and chrome because this
is a typical touring thing that we came up with in the 991 second gen. When we first brought the
touring out, Frank Wellers and me, we always thought we have to have this classic contrast,
but you cannot, as you see here, for the black ones as well. It's really attractive.
And it's a very attractive car. And if you look at the take rates of the touring, I mean the
touring used to be only an option on the wing car. When we started with it, nowadays we have about
50% or in the States, I think it's even more of a take rate of the touring in comparison to the
wing car. And most of these cars, and that's the next shocker, have manual transmissions.
Manuals really matter to our customers and especially the touring has an 80% share of manual
transmissions. And it's 50% of the GT3 and GT3 wing car. So the touring is a very, very good
example of how the customer changed in the last 10 years because now it's not only a track car
for track aficionados, it's a driver's car for people that use the car more on a daily basis
or as enthusiast car to drive on the weekends. They want the driver's car and they don't care
about the last tenth of a split second on some track. And this is what the touring is about.
It's race technology, but it's wolf in a shape skin, I would say. And this is what people like,
I think. It's a true classic 911. And what are the virtues that it needs? What seats do you
prefer? Absolutely the buckets. I'm a complete bucket person. They are a little bit harder to
get in and out, true. But once you sit, and this is what counts, it is definitely for me, for my
body size and for most people I know in our team, the better proposition, definitely.
Because and it's lighter. Lightness is always add some lightness, Colin Chapman of Lotus said
some decades ago, and he was right. You have to look really for the kilos and grams. But it's
in the strongest point, it's really the information, the bucket seat transfers over your body.
You have more feeling for the car. I talked to Frank who's sitting here who gave me the car
yesterday. All my cars have bucket seats and the difference if you drive the same car with
bucket seats and with normal seats is substantial. From the fun point, from the information the car
gives you. So GT3 for me is clearly a bucket car. There you go. What other options? I'm just thinking
about all the questions I feel from friends of mine who are buying these cars. Just give me a
couple other options when you're speccing out this car or one of the GT cars that you can't
live without. One for me in LA is Lyft. You got to have Lyft. Absolutely. Lyft is only a couple
of kilos and you have to have it because of steep speed bumps and the stitches that you have
mostly on every second gas station. What else do you put in these things? For me, when I'm
speccing the cars and I don't have to pay them because they are completely cars then,
I always go with PCCB. It's the first thing I make my option. You might take my box is the
seat and then the brake. So with the buckets and PCCB on a GT car, you're done. Maybe you need
this button that you can open your garage with. This home guide button or whatever.
This is important. I like to have good stereo in the car. On a GT3 SC, for example, the Bose
is standard. So you don't have to opt for it anymore. Because I like to listen to music when
I'm driving. Listening to good rock music and driving a GT3 is absolutely the same thing and
one can't live without the other. Most of these suggestions are so simple. People tend to
overthink it. They really tend to overthink it when they're speccing these cars out. Not everything
you can tick in an option list is good for the car. Because on the GT cars, we're always trying to
set up the car perfectly without any boxes ticked. I mean, the seats, okay. We could make them standard,
but a lot of people prefer the normal sports seat because of their body width or whatever.
My co-host is like that.
But I think most people that opt for the normal seat, they didn't have any experience with the
bucket seat. You should try them out first before you go the other road. Definitely. But yeah,
like I said, it's both stereo. It's the bucket seat and PSCB and all this leather stuff, leather
vents and it's nothing for me. It deludes a GT3 idea. It has to be pure to a point.
Okay. Porsche patented something the other day. I'm sure you can't talk about, but it's a set of
stripes that, I guess, will disappear. Racing stripes that appear and disappear. Look at this
story right here. Porsche files a string of unusual patents filed by Porsche. Hidden or
disappearing racing stripes may be the oddest. Spike, to be perfectly honest with you, I never
saw that. I'm seeing this for the first time now. Let's go. What? Apparently, why would you hide
racing stripes? I don't know. The application is similar to variable light control featured
offered on Porsche panoramic sunroof. So you know, we sit on the McLaren too. You can have a clear
glass. You press a button. We have this on the Taycan as well. Yeah. And this is a stripe
that will appear and disappear. It actually would work for when I share a car with Zuckerman,
because he doesn't like stripes and I do. So he could just turn them off or turn them on.
But this is the first year hearing of it. Absolutely. I mean, maybe I'm to blame. I'm not too
so don't spend too much time on social media and checking all this in my spare time. But
I mean, I was thinking about if it would be nice to have an option where you could change
the color of the car by pushing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think there are folks maybe in the future that
will that will be possible. That would be nice. And why not have something like this? If you see
the little eye flare he gave when he said that, is it maybe maybe in the future? Yeah, well, but
it's not on the development, not in my department. So but I would, I would be interested in something
like all this pain to sample discussions. That's a good one. I like that. Why not? I mean,
it's a color is a mood thing. You're not in the same mood every day. Right. And can you just,
it prevents you from buying three cars. You can have one and you can just change the color.
I think it's an amazing idea. Yeah, what an amazing idea.
We have this flip flop colors, you know, flip flop colors for the flip flop color is
that they're already existing. They're mostly a 4k compound and they change their appearance
by the angle of the light. Oh, yeah. So you have a blue that turns into a, yeah, a dark, a dark,
it's not pink, what's it called? Lila, lilac? Purple, yeah. Purple and they're getting better
and better and doing stuff like that. But it's all in the same range of color. Right, right.
They change a little bit, but it's interesting. Yeah, it is very cool. Great would be something
that you can turn from black to white, but I don't know if that's technically possible.
When we read a story like this about a patent being filed, because there are lots of these
stories now because of the internet every week, somebody's filing a patent for this or that,
how does that work exactly? Is that coming from your design team? Or is that a separate department?
Like, let's say you did come up with this idea and it is a new idea. Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, we did it before. Most of the patents, there's an engineer and there's so many patents
coming along every day. So there's a department that takes care about all the bureaucracy stuff
to go to the different offices and apply for it and do the paperwork. So the engineer
only has the idea and passes this idea to get checked if it's worth making a patent.
And the first thing is we're making a big check if something similar is developed already,
or if not, and if not, we can do it. If we think we have a certain advantage of being the only
ones having it, we can protect it with a patent. You weren't the only ones, Porsche,
who supposedly filed a patent this week. The Chinese car maker has now patented a voice control
in-vehicle toilet. Did you see this? This was BBC. In-vehicle toilet, oh my God.
But well, okay, if people, if there's a market for it, why not doing it? I mean,
the Chinese market is a lot different to the European one. And having a toilet in a car,
I mean, you have toilet in airplanes as well, so why not? But I don't think that will be an option
in the GT part of the story. You know, Matthew McConaughey, the actor, when I first moved to LA,
famously, he had this van, like a burnout weed smoker van, and he had a hole in the floor
with a hose and a funnel connected to it. And that was his portable bathroom. But no,
this apparently is real. I see always the signs in California roads don't litter.
But you know, in the 1950s, there was a special version of the Rolls-Royce
Silver Wraith that included a built-in television set and a toilet beneath the passenger seat.
Can you believe that? Rolls-Royce was the first to this. But I don't know. It sounds like an RV
idea, right? Maybe Emily needed to go to the Lou quite often. It sounds like RV or like boat.
It just made me laugh. Just weird, weird stuff. Weird patterns coming out.
I'm going to go through these questions here and then I've got questions from our fans on Patreon.
But what are you driving? What are your personal favorite cars these days?
That changes every day. So I don't have a big garage of privately owned cars. I have a 993
convertible, a black one for historical reasons, because it was the first lease car I specced
myself when I came to the company in 1997. And I always liked the 993s. I used to have a 964
Carrera cab relay back then before I came to Porsche, because I was selling cars. I imported
them from California with friends to Germany, mostly Fiat Spiders and stuff, because they
weren't available anymore, because they were rusted through in Europe. And the California cars were
still good. So we made a little money with that. And I bought my first Porsche with that. And that
was a 964. And the next one was the company car. It was a 993 convertible. I still have it.
I have it for 20 years now. I'm the second owner. It's only got 50,000 miles on it. And I love it
to bits. And it belongs to the family. My son said to me a couple of days ago,
that we can never sell that, because I was thinking about selling it to get a Spyder.
But he said no. My family decided not to give away the 993.
Great. You raised that kid right. He got his first car. He's 18. He has a Golf 7R.
Two door with a manual transmission. That was what he wanted. That's for real.
And it's a great car. I love it. Love to drive it. How old do you when you get your driver's
license where you are? I was 18. You have to be 18. You have to be 18 in Germany and pay
about $4,000 for the driver's license. That's a complete different story than here.
Not everybody can afford making the driver's license. It's a lot of money.
I just took my 16 year old last week to get his driver's license. I was panicked.
My wife did the first test for the first one, but the second one, I was there for it.
And the guy in front of us, the kid in front of us, got eliminated. His brake lights didn't work.
He had some screwed up brake light across the top and it didn't. And they go,
you can just tell they're like, get out of there. But he passed. He did well. Great.
He got six mistakes. Now I can give him the keys to the Bentley. No. No. We get Subaru's for these
kids. I like safe cars. Yeah. Yeah. Subaru is a good community and they're not too fast.
They're Subaru early cars that are plenty fast. What's that? Oh, yeah. No, I know.
WRX is a great car. Yeah. No WRX. I think he's going to get that new electric
on charge. My son enjoys driving my Dodge Ram as well. Yeah. I'm a truck guy,
to be honest. Nobody believes that. Well, I love a big Cammy in a car. Yeah. Cool.
No, you've always celebrated America with your choices. I did. You're a funny guy.
Maybe I am. That's that's how I am. Rock and Roll, Van Halen, funny candy colored candy,
red colored guitars and stuff. I like that. That's cool. But we're celebrating your stuff
the same way. Yeah. Look at what we're doing. That's that's me. It's cars, guitars, and guns,
and guns, and beer. Well, you'll fit right in here. We should we should have one of those
switcheroo's. You can come over and take over this show and let me go design some cars at Porsche.
That would be very exciting. So I would love to do that. I would love to do that. Can I use all
the cars sitting in here? You can do whatever you want. We don't even know what's here anymore.
All right. Here, another question. More horsepower traditionally suggested for more driving fun.
Do you think that's true anymore? You know, we have all these cars that are pushing. I would say
that's complete bullshit. Sorry. It is my language. Right. No, that's the heavier car is the more
horsepower it has, the heavier it has to be. Right. The more brakes it needs, the more stiffening up
and everything. So the weight will go up. And the ratios of the gears will go up because you
get so much torque. So in a normal in a normal normal driving scenario on legal roads, you will
always be tempted to overdo it vastly and end up in jail. And enjoying a drive is not about horsepower.
It's about the agility, the lightweight and the feeling the car gives you. The zing factor,
I would say, like this when you slightly touch the accelerator and that car bites instantly.
Yes. You need short gearing. You need the noise. Definitely. You need the proper noise in a sports
car. And my formula is always around 500 horses and 1450 kilos is the sweet spot.
And if there's a manual transmission involved, all the more. So I don't need I don't need this
thousand. But I have a GT2 RS with 700 and something horsepower as well. But I hardly
use it because on an on a normal street situation, it's it's almost too much. I remember you drag
this. We were chatting somewhere, maybe at Pebble, when the GT2 RS came out and you said,
never get rid of that car, we will never be able to do this again. And you didn't really elaborate
on that. And it wasn't I wasn't so much a comment about the model that it was a comment about the
formula for this car. I think it was more a comment about legislation legislation. I mean,
the GT2 RS is a very emotional car from the from the from the from the sound situation. I mean,
it's really loud. It's really brute. Yeah, it is it is King Kong on wheels. Yeah. And it's also very
this brutal aura. And we were leaning outside the wind ourselves outside the window, we say in
Germany, big time legislation advice, it's all legal. But we tried very hard to get it through
back then and it was in 17. Yeah. And legislation wouldn't allow a car that is so so loud and so
so so so racy. And yeah, that's that's maybe I was referring to that. Yeah. And I think it's one of
the great cars, one of the great ratio between weight and horsepower was very, very good. Yeah,
the cars feels very light and nimble, even at slow speeds. When you when you exit the parking
place, you always have fun in the car, despite being in a 700 horsepower car. Yeah. And all these
other cars today that have more than 700 700 was a was a vast number back then. Today, it's
ho hum. It's a I mean, Corvette has a 1100 horsepower car. Ford's talking about even more
than 1200 or something like that. I mean, this is this is the different time now. But I don't think
that horsepower is the is the way to go to make cars exciting in the future. It needs horsepower.
It needs an engine that is capable of propelling the car to the horizon very fast, but you don't
need 1000 horsepower for that. There you go. Definitely not. What are we going to do with
this halo car you guys are making? Well, yeah. You always need a halo. I know you can't talk about
it. But you know, we were we were told the mission X is coming. And then it looks like it's probably
not coming. And then I've heard rumors, various rumors about a hybrid V8 supercar hypercar of
some kind in the works. Is there anything you can say on on that subject that won't get you fired?
No. The only thing I can say we're looking at a lot of things at the moment. So we're like
restructuring a little bit the company and which is a good thing. And it's a logical thing that
you look at all the different niches of cars that you can that you can bring out in the future to
enhance the sporty atmosphere around Porsche and we will continue doing that and or enhancing that
or reinforcing that. And for something like that, it might be handy to have a supercar,
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These are not really vetted. This one's from Chappy. My perfect GT car would be an all-wheel
drive GT2 800 horsepower monster to win the Targa Tasmania. What's Andy's No Rules perfect
GT car Porsche going to be if there are no rules? My perfect GT car at the moment is existing. It's
a 911 ST because it's for me the perfect driver's car. There's the perfect combination of lightweight,
great engine, low masses on the engine and the manual gearbox and the whole sound aura and the
the way the car feels is for me that would be my number one pick out of my 26 cars that I
did in my career. I would stay close to that formula because I'm not too much the racer anymore
that spends this weekend at the paddock. I have great sympathy for everybody's doing it. I did
it myself 10 years ago, but right now the GT car for me is more the driver's car that is giving you
the ultimate smile and wants to make you drive all day and this is what it counts. It's so horrible.
You sold your ST. Yeah, I had it for a year. Out of your mind. I am. You shouldn't. I know,
but you made a good profit, I think. It doesn't fix the pain I feel right now, but everything you
said about it is right. But no, we like, we just like experiencing. I mean, we're addicted to what
you make. So we just, we don't have an unlimited budget. We like to just get one, drive it, talk
about it, move on and then we'll give comfort yourself by getting an SC because it's on the way.
This is an experience. The last piece of the puzzle was getting the color and you just,
you just fixed that for me. But I have a GT3 Touring coming in July and the other blue metallic
as well. And yeah, you know, but we, you know, and you know, Jerry and I, we all think about you
when we drive these cars and we call each other and we say, if you feel this, did you feel that?
Next time you call me, please. We can have a chat while you're driving. And it's always,
like you said, it's about balance and lightness. It's balance, lightness. It's a feeling the car
transmits and it's not just having some, some, some big engine, some good brakes. All the systems
have to be in sync with each other to, to, to, to, to, to give you that feeling on the wheel.
You're exactly right. Drew Childers, what car are you most proud of? I think he just said that.
JT says, Andy, what part of developing GT cars still excites you the most at this point after
26 cars? It's mostly the beginning, the beginning of the project where we've spent a lot of time
with the studio guys, the styling engineers. My team and I am especially very picky about
how the car looks because I think a GT car is always a car that has to be beautiful. You want
it, it has to make you turn around when you leave the car to have a look at it again.
And so, and especially wheels, we spend a lot of time of getting the car aesthetically correct.
But at the same time, it has to be a hundred percent form follows function. So we don't make
fake vents or whatever. So everything aerodynamically has to work perfectly, but it has to look good.
So at first, we start with the function and then we're trying to make this function look
as beautiful as possible. And this is a process that I like very much. And the second, I like
almost more than the first, than, than, than, than the first stages of the project is
the launching the car. Things like today sitting here with Spike talking about the cars,
getting comments by, by real customers what they think about the product. This is the most rewarding
phase if you have done it right. If not, you're in a bad place. Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
And the Jaguar isn't being celebrated this weekend. Everything in between the whole development
process is very, very intense and can be a pain in the neck. But that's the, that's a job we have
to do 80 percent of the time. And we're lucky that we have more projects in parallel. So we always
have this, this, this first phase and this last phase, maybe once a year. And we like that.
Daniel Lang wants to know, are you aware that it's hard for many of us to get these GT cars?
Yeah, I know. And is there, is Porsche ever going to make it easier? Is that really a
dealership question as opposed to a factory question? It's different in so many countries. I
mean, you have a special situation here in the US where the legal situation for the dealerships is
completely different than in Europe. So we can't interfere with their way to do things. So in a
lot of people, let me just stop you there. A lot of people don't know that it's true with all the
manufacturers. The factory is not directly connected to sales at dealerships. They're different
companies. So they don't have that control. So that's, that makes this question very hard to
answer. I'm aware of that. There's a shortage of cars mostly. And we're trying to solve that by,
for example, 9-11-SEE. Yeah, it's not limited anymore. But we are small companies still. We
have limited production capacities. And we're trying to get better in that. But I definitely
dare say that we won't be able to produce as many cars as the market wants,
because the demand is simply too high. All right, a couple more. And then I'm going to get you out
of here. No problem. Larry from Clearwater, Florida just wants to say hello. Well, that's nice.
Hi, Larry. Thanks, Larry. That's real nice. But we were asking for questions.
That's where we get our cars, those guys. We're just joking. Don't take our cars away from us,
please. Okay, here's a good question. Tame Impala SS wants to know, your favorite American cars
currently on sale, and we know you're an American truck fan, but what else?
Currently on sale. Okay. That's a good one. That's a good one. Actually, I love, I like
trucks. I love the very high-powered truck variants of Ford and Dodge.
He's saying other than trucks. Other than trucks, I have great respect for Corvette. I always
was a Corvette guy, even now as a mid-engine car. I mean, I have great respect. And we always had
very good relationships between the Corvette engineers. We meet at the Nurburgring sometimes,
and they even gave us their exclusive slot for doing our own record lap. It was on a 991.2 GT3 RS.
When they had the track, and we asked them, can we have half an hour? We just want to make a little
bit of a short record. And they were trying very hard to go below the seven-minute mark. But
they're really cool. And I like the cars. I like how the Corvette feels, handles, drives. And if
I would live here in a stage, maybe I would have a Corvette too in my garage. I have great respect
for the Ford GTD as well. It's a well-made car, very great technology involved. It's a huge thing,
but it's down fast. Have you driven it? No, but I know the guy that runs the Ford Germany office,
and they have a car, and we set to exchange cars. He gets a GT3 RS and now getting a GTD. I didn't
drive it yet. I always talk to people that drove one and asked him how they feel about that.
And I like Camaros as well. Actually, I like all the cars with big V8s. I love the V8 Rumble,
and I love the character of American cars, even though they're maybe a little bit cheaper on
the inside. But I don't mind that because that befits the character of the car. Okay, here's
the last question. It's a good one. This is going to require some thought. But I like this question
a lot. I've never asked it before. This is from a gentleman known as the Timepiece Gentlemen.
If you could go back 50 years, 40, 50 years to Stuttgart designing Porsche,
what would you make that wasn't already made? So essentially, if you go back the 50s and 60s of
Porsche. 40 years ago is not the 50s. Yeah, but it was the 80s. I know he got that wrong. He got
that wrong. But let's say you go back any time, 60s, 50s, 70s. What's missing there that you would
make? I'm a 911 guy through and through. So we have a 911. Okay, so 68 to, let's say, 85. What
would you make? I think the 944, 968 front engine cars, I would love to see them come back in a way.
There are some people on the internet that do like this virtual reality renderings of a modern
looking 968. And that's awesome. That really looked very cool as an 80s. Actually, that would be a
great car to do. That would be something, but he's making a completely new model line.
He's saying, Andy, wait, he's saying you go back in time. You're now in 1968. You're a designer at
Porsche. What would you make 1958? We've got speedsters, we've got convertible Ds in that zone,
we've got, is there, is there, see, it requires a second of thinking. Is there a special 356
you would have made if you could go back in time? In 73 alone, what do we have? We have the
two points, the 2.7 Carrera RS that would have made a very, very good platform for a touring-like
thing. I mean, they were naming it, but I would take away the ducktail and make this more like the
ST. And maybe enhance this driver car thing a little bit earlier than we did. Because the car
got driver's cars, but as a byproduct, they were mostly cars built for the races. And then
somebody changed a little bit on them and then they were considered a driver's car. But a car to
just have fun to drive around with on a Sunday afternoon. Actually, that was a 9-11 always.
So it's really a tough question. 73 RS touring was a great answer. That's a great answer. I love
that. Leave the ducktail away and the stripes a little bit less obtrusive.
But the same powertrain and that would be maybe a good idea. I love that. Well,
we've covered a lot today, Andy. This is fantastic. Yeah, I know so. All right. I'm juiced up. I'm
super excited about everything that you're doing. I now know what we're doing with our SC.
I feel like I understand these cars on a deeper level, which happens every time. And I'm really
taken by the simplicity of your approach to these things. And sometimes I think people overthink
or they drill down on minutiae or engines and the rest of it. And just the simplicity of how
you expressed what these cars are about to you and how you design them and how you make them
what I really enjoy about them. It's not rocket science. It's about knowing what the customer
wants and what the customers enjoys. And we are feeling like the customers themselves. And that
makes us very easy to find the right product substance. Because I would say everybody out of
my team that develops these cars would buy a car, a GT car, if he could afford it when he
wouldn't be working at Porsche. So we think alike. And that makes it very, very easy to find out
what the market needs. And that was always the formula behind it and having the right people.
Are you going to be up in Monterey? This summer, I always try to be at the Monterey Car Week
because I really enjoy it. Although it changed a lot during the last year, I think.
Will we see a quail? Lots of Lamborghinis and burnouts. I think that's not necessary.
But yeah, I think I will be there. So you will. Quail, good. I'll see you up there.
Okay. Are you going to bring something special? Sounds good. You bet.
There you go. Andy Pruninger. We'll see you next week at Spice Car Radio.
About this episode
Andy Preuninger walks through Porsche’s new GT3 SC as an open-top, skunkworks-born answer to customer demand and tightening emissions timing, while also explaining why Touring cars have become more daily-friendly and manual-heavy. He shares his own spec tastes, from bucket seats and PCCB to lift in Los Angeles, and argues that fun comes from lightness and agility, not just horsepower. The conversation also touches his 993 convertible, his son’s manual Golf 7R, and his view that GT cars should be beautiful, honest, and hard to get.
Spike sits down with Andy Preuninger, the man who built Porsche's GT division into what it is today, to talk the new 2027 911 GT3 SC, why more horsepower is "complete bullshit," and what it actually takes to spec a GT car correctly. Andy also reveals he's a truck guy. Yes, really.
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Andreas "Andy" Preuninger is the Director of Porsche's GT model line and the guy responsible for the GT3, GT3 RS, GT2 RS, 911 ST, 718 Spyder RS, and every other car that makes enthusiasts lose their minds. Spike calls him "the Pope of GT Cars," and Andy doesn't exactly disagree.
They break down the philosophy behind Porsche GT: driver engagement over raw numbers, lightweight over luxury, form that always follows function. Andy drops his personal specs for any GT car (front-axle lift, PCCB, bucket seats, and skip the fancy leather), explains why he hates black wheels with a passion, and shares why the GT3 Touring now outsells the winged version with 80% of buyers still choosing the manual.
On the new 2027 911 GT3 SC (Sport Cabriolet): Andy calls it an "everyday Speedster", a GT3 Touring with a fully automated roof built for the open-air crowd who didn't want to wrestle with a manual top. European emissions legislation in 2027 is driving the timeline, and production will roughly double the 911 ST's numbers. Andy also ranks the 718 Spyder RS in his personal top three out of 26 cars he's developed, explains how Porsche hides test cars from Nürburgring paparazzi, and gets into why he thinks the next frontier for GT cars is agility — not horsepower.
Plus: his personal 993 Cabriolet, what German driver's licenses actually cost, his Hemi-powered Dodge Ram, and whether he'd have a Corvette if he lived in the States.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing Andy Preuninger
03:26 - 2027 Porsche 911 GT3 SC
08:19 - Porsche 718 Spyder RS
10:56 - Building the GT3 SC
17:11 - Porsche 911 GT3 Touring review
25:27 - Weird car patents
30:43 - Andy's car collection
34:26 - Is horsepower a scam these days?
37:53 - Porsche's next halo car
42:15 - Why the 911 ST is so perfect
44:47 - The best part of designing cars
46:34 - Why it's so hard to get a GT Porsche
48:11 - Andy's love of Corvette and Ford
50:18 - The dream classic Porsche
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