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This is the introduction to his video comparing his 2012 GTS to his 2010 GT3. What does that have to do with Prima Luna? Nothing.   

It will be interesting to see what he says. The GTS is not a true GT car, not in the Porsche sense. It is really just a Carrera S tarted up with some nice options, notably the X50 engine package. The GT3 by contrast is a genuine GT car, with different suspension, different engine. Not the same suspension with different shocks and springs, a different suspension. Not the same engine with different intake, a completely different engine. It may look like the same car with different spoilers, but it is not.    

Porsche GT cars are something special. It says a lot about Kevin Deal that he has one. 

Fyi the x50 package went with older turbos and not the GTS. 

As I am considering a Taycan, I was hoping this thread would have addressed the Bose vs Burmeister audio options…. 

GT = Grand Touring
GTS =  Porsche Badge that is not limited to the 911 Carrera. The 911 GTS is by no means a tarted up 911. It has a top speed of 193 MPH. 
It also lops off 6/10 of a second (3.2 vs 3.8) in the standard 0-60 MPH benchmark as compared to a standard 911 (both with the Sport Chrono PKG). That difference is well beyond substantial. As far as tarting a car up goes: 94 more HP and 91 more foot pounds of torque is in the neighborhood of a 25% increase when combining the two increases into a single stat.

All that said: let’s not lose sight of the fact that a GT3 barely out performs the GTS, and does so only in place. For instance: the 2 cars share the exact same 0-60 MPH times with the GT3 gaining only 6 MPH in top track speed (199 vs 193 MPH). It must be that whopping 23 more HP the GT3 has over the GTS? 
All changes aside, and as extensive as they may be, calling the GT3 a tarted up GTS rings much truer than calling a GTS a tarted up 911, when considering performance alone. The fact remains, Porsche builds the GT3 to go racing, and it’s a bonafide race car with its built-in roll cage and other mandated race features that qualify it to be raced in the GT3 class by Porsche and other race teams. You can now get them with Touring packages for those that don’t plan on running them at the track (it does away with the giant swan tail- as they currently call it).