Remote Camber Adjustment Coming To Porsche 911 GT2 RS

Porsche specifically notes that camber adjustment can lead to unwanted toe angles, which can negatively impact steering ability. The patent discusses how longitudinal forces - such as those experienced during acceleration and braking - can be transmitted via the steering lever to the top tie rod (in a double-wishbone setup). This impacts toe and camber in very minute ways, but if a car's suspension can counteract these forces to maintain a certain camber or toe value, more grip should theoretically be possible, the car will handle better, and lap times will fall.

It's a genius solution for extracting more performance, but it's not altogether new. Science journals and other patents have discussed this with a view to racing applications, so we suspect that weight, complexity, or cost could have rendered it unviable. If that's true, why is Porsche protecting the innovation?

For one thing, it does not appear that this sort of system has been fully explored with a view to production car applications. For another, Porsche continues to stick by its tricky-to-manage rear engine placement doggedly, and with the new GT2 RS expected to raise the performance bar once again, Stuttgart will look at any means of minimizing unpredictable or unwanted handling traits.

Of course, there's no guarantee that Porsche will put this into production on the GT2 RS, the production version of the Mission X concept, or any other car, but we did accurately predict that the GT3 RS would get a DRS-style rear wing, thanks to earlier patents.

Porsche is constantly looking at ways to improve performance, be it through new means of actively cooling brakes or novel ways of adjusting suspension, and this latest patent is just more proof that the geniuses in Stuttgart will always endeavor to produce the world's finest driver's cars.