SSR Performance in Munich are a multi-faceted automotive operation – with motorsport racing, modifications, supercar sales and storage all under one roof. There is something special lurking within their headquarters that YouTube automotive content creator Shmee150 is there to see in his latest video.
The company has its Porsche 992 Turbo S-based test car under their roof, and its style is something special. Its boundary-pushing design takes simple concepts and applies them to the world’s most famous sports car to create a hypercar and grand tourer in one.
That’s the idea, and Shmee has boots on the ground at the center to see if he can make sense of the SSR GT.
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A road-going race car, or perhaps a grand-touring hypercar is how we ought to think of the SSR GT. Timo shows Shmee round the facility which has the vibe of Iron Man’s second home, with a carbon-fiber-covered kitchen and Porsche rear wing table, and a living replica of the Nürburgring on the wall where moss creates the trees around the famous circuit. There are supercars everywhere, including some that are for sale or customer’s cars getting work done.
A new SSR GT sits out front in the showroom, but the team head into the workshop to see the pink and aquamarine test car that started it all.
This is the original SSR GT, and Timo wants us to think of it as a daily-driver that just happens to be able to hit 186 mph in 17 seconds, a top speed of 236 mph and produce 860 hp / 700 lb-ft reliably.
The Porsche 992 Turbo S-based machine is faster-accelerating than the Bugatti Veyron but can get driven serenely around the streets of Monaco, blasted down the Autobahn or thrown around a tough racetrack.
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The SSR GT test car covered 20,000 miles over a mixture of road driving and hardcore testing on racetracks and proving grounds. This car is what spawned the SSR GT production cars and the eventual racing cars that will take part in competitions. Its focus is aerodynamics – many of the panels get altered and carbon fiber parts get used to optimize air flow. Up front a larger air dam, air ducts in the rear quarter panels, and an adjustable wing provides up to 3 times the downforce of a Porsche 992 Turbo – about 1000 lbs at ‘full speed’.
Underneath the garish paint work is a fully-under isealed floor pan, that extends from the customizable diffuser to the front splitter; it’s one flat piece of material. All of this sounds interesting, but surely this impractical, expensive niche machines too extreme for anyone to use it more than once a year? SSR Performance intended the SSR GT to be happy with daily driving if that is what the customer requires, it can provide either high-speed low-downforce driving, or high-downforce focus for racing. The SSR GT even comes with parking sensors and cameras unlike the Porsche GT3.
How much is it? No figures get given but Shmee certainly enjoys himself on a drive where he hits 173 mph comfortably on the highway in a surprisingly short amount of time.