
Originally Posted by
speedminded
You just don't get it, the only reason the Carrera RS was built was to be qualified to participate in a certain race class, the FIA Group 4. Building a minimum of 500 production street cars enabled them to enter into that class. This is the game/politics that car manufacturers deal with every single day.
Then not only that but the race version Carrera RSR would mark the beginning to Porsche's turbocharging, where do you think that got us today? (GM was doing it 10 years before on production vehicles but soon abandoned it and BMW began turbocharging production cars in 1973)