Overview
The Porsche Carrera GT (also abbreviated as "CGT") is a limited production, mid-engined supercar by Porsche. It is the successor to both the Porsche 959 and Porsche 911 GT1 Strassenversion and the predecessor to the Porsche 918 Spyder.
Overview
The development of the Carrera GT can be traced back to the 911 GT1 and LMP1-98 racing cars. Due in part to the FIA and ACO rule changes in 1998, both designs had ended. Porsche at the time had planned on a new Le Mans prototype for 1999.
The car was initially intended to use a turbocharged flat-6, but was later redesigned to use a new V10 engine, pushing the project back to planned completion in 2000. The V10 was a unit secretly built by Porsche for the Footwork Formula One team in 1992, but later shelved. The engine was resurrected for the Le Mans prototype and increased in size to 5.7 litres.
The project was canceled after two days of testing for the first car, in mid-1999, mostly due to Porsche's wish to build the Cayenne SUV with involvement from Volkswagen and Audi, thus requiring engineering expertise to be pulled from the motorsports division. It was also speculated that VW-Audi chairman Ferdinand Piëch wanted Audi's new Le Mans Prototype, the Audi R8 not to face competition from Porsche in 2004.
Porsche did keep part of the project alive by using the 5.5 L V10 from the prototype in a concept car shown at the 2000 Paris Motor Show, mainly in an attempt to draw attention to their display. Surprising interest in the vehicle and an influx of revenue provided from the Cayenne helped Porsche decide to produce the car, and development started on a road-legal version that would be produced in small numbers at Porsche's new manufacturing facility in Leipzig. Porsche started a production run of Carrera GTs in 2004, shipping the units with an MSRP of US$448,000. The first Carrera GT went on sale in the United States on January 31, 2004.
Originally a production run of 1,500 cars was planned. However, Porsche announced in August 2005 that it would not continue production of the Carrera GT through to 2006, citing discontinuation was due to changing airbag regulations in the United States. By the end of production on May 6, 2006, more than 1,270 GTs had been sold, with a total of 644 units sold in the United States and 31 units sold in Canada. In the United Kingdom, 49 units were sold.
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Summary
The Porsche Carrera GT was added in the Fifth Anniversary Update as a mid Class S car with the following rank statistics:
- Starting rank: 1273
- MAX rank: 1612
- MAX+PRO rank: 1767
- Tuning Kit bonus: +57
- Speed Multiplier: 95.71%
- Stock to MAX+PRO rank difference: 494
- Upgrade rank percentages: 25/30/10/35
- Nitro Efficiency:
The Carrera GT's main rivals at MAX+PRO are the Zenvo TS1 GT 10th Anniversary Edition, Chevrolet 2016 Camaro SS, HTT Pléthore LC 750, Renault Sport R.S. 01, and Arash AF10.
Performance
With its performance map being based on an amalgamation of the Arash AF10 and Chevrolet 2016 Camaro SS, the Porsche Carrera GT has an extreme focus on raw top speed, in contrast to the other Porsches in the game, which have low raw top speed ratings due to their heavy focus on nitro. Its acceleration is considerably improved over the Zenvo TS1 GT, along with its handling and drifting; it has a noticeably sharper drift radius than the Porsche 918.
It has a real total speed of 310.2 mph/499.3 km/h at MAX+PRO with Tuning Kit, the second highest of any Porsche in the game, just behind the Porsche 918's 312.7 mph/503.6 km/h. This is slightly higher than the Arash AF10 with 309.7 mph/498.7 km/h but lower than the Zenvo TS1 GT's 312.7 mph/503.5 km/h and Camaro's 314.3 mph/506.1 km/h.
Unlike other Porsches in the game, the Carrera GT does not have a speed multiplier equal to or above 100.00% – instead, it is 95.71%, a variation of the 95.75% used by cars like the RUF CTR 3 and W Motors Fenyr SuperSport.
Usage (Multiplayer)
The Porsche Carrera GT can be competitive in multiplayer with its low starting rank and large Tuning Kit bonus. The following are several useful non-MAX+PRO multiplayer tunes:
- 0400 5050 = 462.2 km/h/287.2 mph @ S1417
- 0500 5050 = 483.9 km/h/300.7 mph @ S1449
- Can be upgraded to 1500 5050 for a slight acceleration boost with the same total speed and an increased rank of 1457. This has the highest speed-to-rank ratio of these tunes, with 0.334 metric speed units per 1 rank point.
- 0500 5055 = 486.7 km/h/302.4 mph @ S1496
- 0504 5050 = 491.7 km/h/305.5 mph @ S1532
- 0504 5055 = 494.4 km/h/307.2 mph @ S1578
- 0504 5355 = 495.7 km/h/308.0 mph @ S1597
- 0505 5055 = 496.8 km/h/308.7 mph @ S1613
- 0505 5555 = 499.3 km/h/310.3 mph @ S1648
- This is the highest possible speed that the Carrera GT can attain, after which its competitiveness dramatically falls.
- 3505 5555 = 499.3 km/h/310.3 mph @ S1686
Because of its higher top speed and despite its lower rate of acceleration, the Carrera GT is actually more competitive than the Audi R8 e-tron Special Edition, especially above rank 1440. It is capable of competing with the McLaren 720S, Rezvani Beast Alpha, BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage, and Aston Martin Vulcan, although it is still inferior to the Apollo Intensa Emozione (at least above rank 1560).
Price
Upgrades for the Porsche Carrera GT costs 
1,664,550 + 
2,890 while Pro Kits require 1,519,300, 22 of each Class S Parts card, 28 Exceptional Engines, 32 Mid-Tech, and 20 Advanced Tech.
Championship
- Main article: Championship/Porsche Carrera GT
The Porsche Carrera GT's Championship was launched on X, 2018 in the Fifth Anniversary Update after the X. Players are given X days to participate and X days to complete the event.
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