{"id":57853,"date":"2026-07-20T13:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/57853\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:18:09","slug":"porsche-carrera-gt-owners-rejoice-tuthill-has-fixed-the-cars-scariest-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/57853\/","title":{"rendered":"Porsche Carrera GT Owners, Rejoice: Tuthill Has Fixed the Car\u2019s Scariest Flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Porsche<\/a> Carrera<\/a> GT has a reputation that precedes it into every room. The clutch engages with sudden aggression, the rear suspension<\/a> reacts harshly to any lapse in focus over uneven surfaces, and the geometry, in Richard Tuthill\u2019s own words, \u201cwas never quite sorted in the way it should have been.\u201d <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the car Tuthill is now quietly fixing, alongside building one of the most ambitious restomod<\/a> projects in recent memory.<\/p>\n

During a tour of Tuthill\u2019s Wardington facility in Oxfordshire, he described his hands-on experience with a customer\u2019s Carrera GT. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe clutch is known for being tricky. I don\u2019t find it that tricky. As long as you apply a certain methodology, you can get away with it. But we\u2019re going to fix that because it does give some drivers<\/a> anxiety if you\u2019re in a rush or something,\u201d he said. The geometry work goes further. \u201cI know for a fact technically the front geometry and the rear geometry aren\u2019t working in harmony. So we have redesigned all of this\u2026 It changes everything. So now you can drive this car like you stole it and you don\u2019t have to be fearful of how the rear will react when it hits a bump.\u201d <\/p>\n

All the rear components bolt on without touching the structure, which matters enormously when you\u2019re dealing with a car worth serious money.<\/p>\n

He also has a view on where values are headed. \u201cI think these are massively underrated\u2026 I reckon these will double in value in the next two years.\u201d That\u2019s a self-interested take from someone about to improve one, so factor that in accordingly.<\/p>\n

The GT ONE Is the Bigger Story Here<\/p>\n

Tuthill\u2019s broader mission isn\u2019t limited<\/a> to sorting out other manufacturers\u2019 road cars<\/a>. The company\u2019s own GT ONE \u2013 a 22-unit, \u00a31.5 million limited run built around a 993-generation 911 donor \u2013 is its most adventurous project to date. The first production<\/a> car is currently taking shape at Wardington, and per Tuthill, every unit is already spoken for.<\/p>\n

The concept<\/a> draws from the Porsche 911 GT1 Strassenversion, a street-legal homologation special that Porsche built to meet racing<\/a> eligibility requirements for Le Mans<\/a> competition against McLaren<\/a> and Mercedes<\/a> during the late 1990s. Tuthill\u2019s version weighs 1,200 kg, takes 3,500 hours to build, and wears a full carbon fibre body designed by Florian Flatau \u2013 who previously spent time at Singer and contributed design work to the E-Legend EL1. Power comes from either a naturally aspirated flat-six producing over 500 bhp or a forced induction version pushing past 600 bhp, with both manual and seven-speed dual-clutch gearboxes on offer. The front and rear ends open clamshell-style, there\u2019s a full FIA roll cage inside, and carbon-ceramic brakes sit behind the wheels. CFD work shaped the aerodynamics. The whole thing rides on a longer wheelbase than a standard 911.<\/p>\n

Richard Tuthill\u2019s own words on the project capture what he\u2019s actually trying to do with it: <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have taken the best bits but focused on producing a wonderful road car.\u201d That\u2019s the line that separates this from most limited-run builds, which tend to optimise for spectacle over usability. The roughly 20 GT1 homologation cars Porsche built at the time \u2013 divided between 993-headlight and 996-headlight variants \u2013 were, as Tuthill points out, road cars shaped primarily by the demands of racing development rather than everyday usability. The GT ONE is the inverse of that philosophy.<\/p>\n

Tuthill\u2019s facility also houses the final examples of the 911K \u2013 33 units, all sold, priced at \u00a3850,000 including the donor car \u2013 as well as a next-generation K product visible in early CAD form during the facility tour. The K uses a 3.1-litre engine<\/a> spinning to 11,000 rpm in a package weighing 850 kg wet. It\u2019s one of those cars that makes the numbers feel irrelevant the moment you\u2019re actually in it. Tuthill describes the GT ONE similarly: raw enough to be engaging, resolved enough to be genuinely liveable on public roads.<\/p>\n

For a company that built its name on Safari rally cars and ice driving<\/a> programmes, moving into \u00a31.5 million road cars is a significant step. The fact that all 22 are gone before the first one has been delivered suggests the market agrees with the direction, even at that price. Pretty damn high, and apparently not high enough to slow anyone down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Porsche Carrera GT has a reputation that precedes it into every room. The clutch engages with sudden…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21181],"tags":[30469,8406],"class_list":["post-57853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-porsche","tag-carrera-gt","tag-porsche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}