Porsche 964 Carrera RS 3.8

The limited-edition book on the Porsche 964 Carrera RS 3.8 It is one of the rarest models in the 911 RS series ever built. Only 55 examples of the Porsche 964 Carrera RS 3.8 were hand-finished in Weissach in 1993, while another 49 racing versions of the 964 Carrera RSR 3.8 were handcrafted at the same time in the same workshops of Porsche’s Customer Racing Department. However, the successful RS successor certainly did not have an easy start. In the early 1990s, Porsche was on the brink of collapse. Car sales were sluggish, and the company’s factory-backed motorsports activities had all but ground to a halt, at least on the international stage. Taking inspiration from the successful GT cars of the 1970s, Customer Racing Director Jürgen Barth and Roland Kussmaul—who would later become project manager—drafted a set of specifications for a new 911-based sports car. The idea for the 964 Carrera RSR 3.8 was born, and with it, for the first time in a long while, a foundation was laid to offer affordable customer racing at the international level. The cars complied with the regulations of the ADAC GT Cup, major international 24-hour races such as those at the Nürburgring, Spa-Francorchamps, and Le Mans, as well as other major endurance races around the globe. Right off the bat, the RSR won the GT class at Le Mans in 1993, as well as the overall class at the 24 Hours of Spa and the Nürburgring.