Contemporary subtlety wins once again with the new 911 GT3

The new Porsche GT3 911 (991 generation) has some wonderfuldesign twists on the iconic Porsche 911 Carrera model.

911 GT3 on Porsche's excellent Pinterest outpost

Now it in’s 50^th anniversary year, the 911 stillwith it’s engine resolutely mounted in the rear is a great manifestation of evolvinga classic design utilising the latest contemporary design trends.

Porsche owners are always looking for the finest of detailsthat set certain model variants apart. These subtleties start to become moreobvious the more you start looking at the detail.

It could be the LED lights front and rear on the 991 997which indicate it is the generation two 997 variant (997.2) or the bumper and exhaustconfiguration that only exist in the Turbo versions of the iconic car.

The new GT3 has carried forward the subtle evolution withthe integration of the day running lights into the classic rounded 911headlights. A great evolution as I’ve always felt the look of the day runninglights on the previous version (911 997.2) looked a bit ‘me too’ which Porschetend not to fall into.

Anything to do with tweaks to the 911’s headlamp look andfeel is always a sensitive issue after what aberration that was the 911 996Boxter look integrated indicator cluster solution. This gnarly looking versioncheapened the 911 marque at the time.

The design team over at Land Rover could certainly learn athing or two about the subtle use of LED and side emitting fibre optics basedon the Christmas tree look of the previous Range Rover model.