Fanboys rejoice -- 2010 Porsche 911 GT3 RS heading to Frankfurt, Germany

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We car journalists really are fan boys – and girls – at heart. We like things that go fast, look cool and scream drive me at ten-tenths of the limit.

We like cars in loud colors, with contrasting wheels and body panels, we like, basically, what we doodled in seventh-grade math class or have played for countless hours on the Gran Turismo. In essence, we like our automotive dreams to come true and to be sitting in our garage at night.

For some of us, that means a Bentley, or a Ferrari or even something a little more classic, such as a 1973 Corvette Sting Ray.

Though all those cars are fine and dandy, today, some of our personal dreams came true with the announcement of the new 2010 Porsche 911 GT3 RS, which will be shown for the first time at the Frankfurt, Germany, auto show in mid-September. Work be damned, we suggest you spend as much time watching the Walter Rohrl track video as you can.

Why the 911 GT3 RS? That’s like asking who is more weird, Karl Lagerfeld or Roberto Cavalli? For reasons unknown, choices are deeply personal, and in the case of this Porsche, choosing to buy it would be based not only on general weirdness but also on stupendously amazing awesomeness. The GT3 RS fits into that rare category, especially for a factory car.

The Porsche 911 GT3 RS is the ne plus ultra of the Porsche family, which means that it’s basically as close as you can get to a Porsche RSR race car without having your own racing team.

But, what you may ask is what makes this the one Porsche to rule them all? Let’s start with the mill, which is the cool guy way of saying engine. The new GT3 RS has a reworked 3.8-liter, 450-horsepower, six-cylinder boxer engine under the hood, some serious tuning work down to the suspension and a paint job and body kit that make it look, for lack of a better word, rad!

To say the RS drives like it’s on rails would be an offense to slot cars and, as only the German’s can put it, “To further improve its sporting behavior, the new 911 GT3 RS comes with a purpose-built and specially set up PASM suspension, a wider front and rear track and corresponding bodywork.” Meaning this baby will go like schnell, look good doing it and can take a corner like the Kaiser’s business.

All yours for $132,800. We expect every one to sell before they hit the dealer’s showroom floor. Even in this economy, it’s good to have fan boys.

-- Jon Alain Guzik

Jon Alain Guzik is editor in chief at DriverSide.com