Porsche Carrera GT: the best supercar of the last 25 years | PistonHeads 

Perhaps the greatest car ever made. Brilliant review.

Respect to the Enzo. I remember when they both came out and it was a nice little rivalry indeed. The Carrera GT is certainly the best analog supercar EVER.

From every perspective, this is a piece of art on four wheels. I like the smile and the emotion the driver express during the video.

The best ever. A supercar with a manual.

Gawd that sounds so good

Absolutely brilliant to watch , cheers guys 👍👍👍👍

Porsche is the best out there. More reliable out of the sports car realm and this specific car is as good looking as any Ferrari or lambo. 😊

I saw one of these in person recently at a German Car Day car show. I was surprised at how compact it was. From pictures and videos it always looks super long and wide, but it didn't seem that way in person. It just looked like the most beautiful object in history.

The review is so authentic and so emotional. Fantastic! I was about to buy one in 2009, and I still regret it to this day, that I didn't buy it. The dealer (a friend of mine) talked me out of it, because of the maintenance costs. What a mistake. The Carrera GT is the greatest car ever made. Hands down!

My favourite engine sound since I found it on NeedForSpeed HotPursuit 2 in 2002, been my favourite engine sound ever since

Your reviews have aged like fine wine as well. Good job!

There is nothing to comment on this masterpiece, for me, THE best, greatest car ever made.

This car aged better than the Enzo. The gearbox in the Enzo ain't an auto, nor a manual. It's more rare, but that engine is used everywhere, whereas the CGT V10 is unique.

I went for the most recent Ford GT but this is a very very worthy winner!

There isn’t a single car more timeless than this thing.

One at Goodwood trackbday last week .... Best sound I've ever heard at a track day ......

1000% this. Dream fantasy car that actually exists!

I had a passenger ride in one when they were new at Milbrook and I still have vivid memories of it today. The engine. Utterly, wonderfully, ridiculously, fabulous!!!

Oh, you lucky, lucky man. The sound of that engine just gives me goosebumps !!

When Walter drove the CGT on the Paris Louvre pavement in the pissing rain, I knew then that I WANT ONE!! I am so glad that Walter insisted that it be a manual. I would give all of my cars to own one, I shall achieve it one day! There is nothing that can replace it, not even a new hypercar. Thanks for sharing PH.

Trully an inspiration

the sound, DAMN

Great to see a commentator so genuinely passionate about the car, and that sound omg

I couldn't agree more. I adored the 959, but once the CGT arrived, it unseated the 959 as my favorite Porsche ever. It's in my Mt Rushmore of Top automobiles of all time.

Finally, one that isn't GT Silver. All the CGT's I've seen online seem to be GT silver.

Love it

Such a great car, and a great review. I recommend searching Doug DeMuro's video on how he came to own his CGT dream car - a must see for any fan of this amazing machine.

I've been in love with this masterpiece ever since i played Need for Speed Most Wanted in 2006

If this sensational car is the best over the last 25 years then the Lexus LFA comes a very close second ?

Fantastic video, sounds and looks epic! However, you got some things wrong though. The pictures shown as the introduction into the origin of the engine are wrong though, they are not of the LMP2000 (9R3), but a WSC-95 (1996 and 1997 Le Mans winner btw.), a TWR chassis based on the Jaguar XJR-14. The engine was 3-litre twin turbo flat 6, derived from the 956/962.

my dad should have remortaged the house and forgot about the extension, I saw one in white (maybe wrapped) 23 years ago 27k miles for 150-175k range... lol

The F50 is the only car I'd take over this marvel. Out of this world! 😍😍😍

I loved the look of it immediately when it came out and the fact that it had a V10. Then one was crossing a mini roundabout in front of me in my town and I heard it howl as the driver gunned it away… like nothing else.

I also love the F50 and Zonda F. Although not driven any of these cars so can’t really comment in detail

Epic

Certainly the best sounding 👌 🤷‍♂️

Agreed.

Perfect top 3 as expected by all tje purists in PH 😊

Well done. You’ve just gained a new follower. As remarkable as this car is, and it really is…I’m reminded of the adage ‘there is no replacement for displacement’, and the torque figure you mentioned for the GT is just shy of my GMC Yukon Denali. Perhaps I should enjoy and appreciate what I have, and dream of owning a high revving, and high output motorcar someday.

Can you do a ‘PH best cars of the past 25.5 years-video’ a couple of months from now and feature the Carrera GT again; preferably in a head-on vs. the 458 Speciale and LFA. I’d also be fine to have no video and only sound for that comparison.

I'm still unsure if I've ever seen one of these before in the flesh but I guess I might at PH25

The correct answer 👏 👍

I’ll just have to put up with my 2012 Boxter s lol 😬

please, porsche, do a sub 3000 lbs 800 hp 10k rpm manual, pagani needs an answer for the utopia, but this will always be the greatest 3 pedal car ever made, dream

I’ve decided I’m an old git because none of the cars in the list utterly blew me away. Each era has its hero’s I guess and for me I’m an 80’s/90’s guy so for me the F40 & F1 still takes some beating.

Was the LFA considered(?)

Isn't there a current recall on these at the moment? Something to do with the rear differential

Old hat now, back in the day was epic, nowadays it’s got average power and looks dated and old, still has a decent sound though.

The 458 Italia was up for supercar? I mean, yes, it's an awesome machine, but in the Ferrari line it was the entry level, still. By the Ferrari brand standards, that's like a Corolla. But I guess that's just where it sits, since it's not the big V12 GT's or the hypercar status of the mid-engine V12 Hybrid variety like the LaFerrari was. I was in my late years of high school when the Ford GT, Carrera GT, and Enzo were all fighting each other. Hell, that entire decade was a spike. From the sport compacts, to even midsized family sedans (at least in America, where everything jumped from 190-200, up to 240-280hp within a few years) making huge leaps in power through that decade, and more emphasis on dynamics in some respects. What a pity virtually everything has become some homogenized with the same old 1.5L/2.0L/3.0L/4.0L, variable turbo, direct injected, DCT/8-speed auto, screen laden tripe. Still experiences and exceptions to be had, but it's not what it was.

Another out of this world car. Just ask Paul Walker.

Some say Enzo, McLaren F1, CLK GTR, pagani, koegniggegggg, Veyron some carrera GT. You really cant choose 1 car objectively.

Missed the boat on these, I should have pulled the trigger earlier (on the billionaire carrying his life savings in a bag).

Amazing car - but (if I had the means) I’d go for another V10, the Lexus LFA

It actually has a flywheel, just that it isn't dual mass

Amazing video but please let me make it clear this is when and era of The Supercar category being surpassed into Hypercar lets fix the Title please

a Dream...

Cgt true race car

lol he came every time it rev matched

*cut to Doug DeMuro grinning ear to ear*

M5 v10 e60 with a exhaust sounds just as epic...if you can't afford a Porsche carrera Gt

I agree with the debate of Carrera GT and Enzo, but MB CLK GTR would like to have a talk with both of them...

They started making the Porsche Carrera GT in 2003-2007 change the thumbnail

Nothing like it

LOL the air vents look like they're from an Audi A4 B6/B7

Hands down THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SPORTS CAR OF 2000s and one of the greatest sports car ever made. CARRERA GT is actually better than 918 spyder and its manual my god.

LFA?

there are so many good cars , I do not believe that Porsche is the ??? , no way ❤️❤️

What’s the definition of a hyper car, value or BHP?

Beautiful car, but a death trap to anyone that doesn’t understand what they are doing. This car will hand you your lunch quick!

very close... the Zonda F Roadster has the number 1 spot for me. the GT is second.

Not a zonda ?

Nope! The best supercar is always V12! Pagani Zonda’s are way more special than the CGT’s and the Zonda was in production for 20 of the 25 years you’re going by and the Maserati MC12 is more special than the CGT as well but these cars are very rare so you can argue that the Lamborghini Murcielago is the best overall supercar in terms of driving experience and pop culture significance

Paul walker last ride.😢😢😢

It's great but not even close to a Enzo, just because has the manual don't make this better! And still put some others like the M600 even better than the CGT

A lesson for the auto industry. If you want to win awards like this...make it a manual.

Those incredibly jerky shifts and you're calling the gearbox used in the Challenge Stradale, Scuderia and Aventador "crap..?" You really need to get a different job.. The biggest issue with the CGT is literally its gear change due to the flywheel being so uselessly light. This isn't a shameless plug (people can DM me for my recommendations), but anyone driving a 360 or 430 that currently thinks their paddle shift is "crap," please give me a shout and I'll get you to the (only) true specialist that will get your car absolutely cracking out perfect gear changes. When you are going at higher speeds on narrow public roads, you really do not want to be worrying about your feet, about perfect heel toeing, about the threat of money changes (imagine the cost in a CGT..), about only having one hand on the wheel... These are all major disadvantages that take focus off the road surface and the apex. There is literally nothing better than up shifts hammering home with two hands still gripping the wheel. Furthermore, there's nothing quite like the drama of the slight gap that F1 style manuals afford you (ironically "built in" to the Huracan DCT for eg..). That pause (almost non existent in well set up late 360s onward at WOT), that jolt in the back... That is where the drama *is.* People can't "love" manual gearboxes and think F1 single clutch gearboxes are crap. It's a completely incoherent argument. We all apparently love the CS and Scud and 599 GTO, right..? Right. I'd literally take any of the above over a CGT. Wooden knob or no.

Looks like a Boxster on steroids with tne roof off, but with no buttresses it looks like a pick-up truck with the roof in place. It had a reputation for twitchy (read: lethal) handling, though I have heard modern tires fix that problem. Rowan Atkinson said it's not as exciting as the McLaren F1. Is it really better than a Zonda roadster? Granted the Zonda is too wide and the cabin chintz is not to my taste, but it's the same lightweight carbon fibre, mid engined, 6 speed manual, naturally aspirated recipe, only with a V12 instead of a V10. And it's got traction control, which is a very necessary safety feature in what is otherwise a very analogue car. Nobody likes the part of the analogue experience where you crash and die...

Tom Exton if you see this comment m8 never sell yours

Ill take a LaFerrari over it any day and twice on Sundays

also the car paul walker died in

Gotta stick my neck out and say I'd put LFA above Carrera GT and 458. The LFA is a money-no-object engineering exercise made without any regards towards profit or whatever. And in the day of accountants like now it would have never made it off the drawing board. Also, I'd put 458 Speciale, 599 GTO, and 430 Scuderia WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY above the 458 Italia. That F1 gearbox in Scuderia and GTO is such a defining feature of those cars.

Stop talking and let us hear the engine!

The one thing I’ve never liked about this car is that it’s based on my least favourite 911. But I can look past that. Honestly:)

Great footage but dreadful presenter. He is so stiff and cold to watch.

Nope. look up the design of this car. Bad fuel tank, it’s weak and isnt protected by a firewall so if anything happens and yes the engine is prone to fire which makes a deadly recipe. This car is unsafe. End of

I don't get it, why do car journalists or RU-vidrs talks a lot? Just shut up and let us hear the V10, instead of "WOW GLORIOUS ENGINE, OMG!" Yes we all know. We also know the stats of the car or how it drives like, just keep yourself muted and let the car sing, and let us have our eargasm

This car should be called the “Widow Maker 🕷️🕸️“ as there List of People who have lost control of a Carrera GT and almost died 1.Jay Leno on a oval track at high speed 2. Anthony Hamilton Lewis Hamiltons father crashed it into someone’s back garden 3. Paul walker Crashed into a gas pipe and died Is the problem lift off or snap oversteer ?

The lfa sucks, all it has is a nice sound. Are weebs hyping it up?

With 0-60 in 3.9 seconds and a top speed of 205mph, IT ISN'T the best.

Best powertrain ever and yet you can't use the throttle as you would with every other car that's been made otherwise you stall it or you cook the clutch. Meh. Soundwise the LFA is miles better, particularly from the inside.

You need to work on your shifts... Just saying.