This Stick Shift, 455 HP Porsche Weighs as Much as a Mazda Miata | Capturing Car Culture
By Hagerty
The Gunther Werks GXR Evo is a purpose built air cooled track car with 455 naturally aspirated horsepower, a fully manual stick shift, a carbon fiber body, and a curb weight of just 2,385 pounds, about the same as a Mazda Miata. This thing is serious. Air lift jacks, driver cooling ventilation, massive weight savings, and a no nonsense approach to performance make the GXR Evo one of the wildest air cooled Porsche builds out there. In this episode of Capturing Car Culture, Larry Chen gets an exclusive walk around with Daniel Song, a well known SEMA builder, and Peter Nam, digging into the engi…