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Remembering When Someone Almost Destroyed A Porsche 911 GT3 RSBack in 2016 people were shocked to see a brand new Porsche 911 GT3 RS nose-first in a canal right at the dealership. After all, high-powered cars that require skill to really drive are usually wrecked by their owners as they leave Cars and Coffee or some other gathering.
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But instead of a rich guy with low skill embarrassing himself while trying to show off for strangers, this boneheaded mistake was made by an employee at a Porsche dealership in Amsterdam. Even worse, it was one bearing the coveted Gulf livery, adding to the pain many enthusiasts felt.
By some miracle, the Porsche suffered only minor damage from the fall. The canal into which it fell was shallow at that point, something we wonder wasn’t done by design because someone thought it was inevitable at some point in the future a car at the dealership would roll right off the ledge. If so, that was vaticinal.
After all, thanks to the shallow depth of the water and the 911 having its engine in the rear, the powertrain and drivetrain never contacted the wet stuff. That prevented what would’ve been disaster.
Exactly how the Porsche 911 GT3 RS ended up in the water never was made clear. Some reports claim the livery was being applied at the time and someone left the car in neutral without applying the parking brake.
Others say an employee moved it on a ramp and it rolled off for an unknown reason.
All we know is disaster was averted as the supercar, which at the time retailed for over $175,000 (that seems cheap today) wasn’t destroyed by a boneheaded mistake. It was ultimately delivered to the customer who ordered it and had the dealer applying the livery.
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