Car thread - which one?

[Mussels]

but nearer my budget...

I went to check the price thinking they may be silly, now I've seen this I really want it. I didn't know these existed!
https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1709621
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[MrLongbeard]

I've avoided posting as all Porsches are, imho, boring, just get a bettle already, however, there are still people who give a shit what other people think about what they're wearing? that's hilarious.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I don’t think it’s trying to be classy, it’s trying to stand out, it’s brash and in your face and if you read about the amount of effort the Porsche engineers put into it then you can understand why they wanted it to be unmistakable.

No one ever asks us what colour we want our Engineering masterpieces to be

To be clear, I've never worked on the 911 but I've certainly worked on cars of that nature loads. It's often a surprise to us what they actually end up looking like

The people who know who to extract money from the customers are just in a completely different field

[Mr. Dazzle]

Andreas Preuninger?

These guys are all pretty legitimate at the German OEMs. I've not met Andreas but I've worked with his equivalent in a few OEMs. Germans in particualr often have "lifers" in these places. I'm quite fortunate in that my career path (working for SMEs, some of whom have then been bought out) means my work sorta "leapfrogs" over a bunch of lower level stuff and I get to meet the higher level guys.

He's hardly gonna get up in front of the press and says its awful though is he.

My Boss is the CTO of our little corner of this OEM, he's does loads of this press stuff. It's a real shame I can't say who I work for cause he's got some really good interviews on YouTube and the like talking about EVs in general. He's deffo stage managed though, I know that because he jokes about it

[Mr. Dazzle]

Yeah that sort of thing usually gets added by the stylists later . That's what I mean about the people who know how to get the money being a different bunch.

You generally get a 50/50 mix of eye rolling and grin responses in the actual engineering office over such details.

Edit: that reminds me actually, one for the best ones we had was being asked to look at taking random bits of magnet or wiring out of our motors to change the sound. Any of the changes would have made the motor technically worse, but perhaps more salable. None of the engineering bunch would have orginaly countenanced making the motor 'worse'...unless prompted by people who know more about how to actually sell them

[Taipan]

I don’t think it’s trying to be classy, it’s trying to stand out, it’s brash and in your face and if you read about the amount of effort the Porsche engineers put into it then you can understand why they wanted it to be unmistakable.

No one ever asks us what colour we want our Engineering masterpieces to be

To be clear, I've never worked on the 911 but I've certainly worked on cars of that nature loads. It's often a surprise to us what they actually end up looking like

The people who know who to extract money from the customers are just in a completely different field

The Engineer in charge of Porsche's GT products definitely has a lot of say about the end product, I forget his name (I think it's Andreas something), he also does a lot of the press stuff as well.

This place pisses me off, this is a great thread but I feel very uncomfortable leaving it up now.

By your own admittance, you do poke people with the proverbial wind up stick, so you're going to get it back at times and seeing you enjoy something is just bait for it. Its the ying/yang of the forum.

I haven't been around Porsches since the 80s so i'm enjoying the thread and I find it interesting talking about their evolvement. I won £10 on revcomps and used it to buy2 tickets for the blue Porsche Turbo. If you delete the tread i wont have anywhere to talk about my Porsche when i win it and I am going to win it.

My dream Porsche!

[wheelnut]

The DiL had a concert last week in the Dales so we duly went along. In the car park there was a beautiful 1969 (possibly 70) 911 ST. It was black and immaculate. No pics as it would have felt odd taking pics of someone’s car, but funds no object, that would be the Porsche I would go for.

[Yorick]

If you do buy it.... you're aware that half of this forum will be living our best lives vicariously through you, and will demand masses of photos etc.

I'd usually be more than happy to catch up and give you a go if the chance arises, IIRC you aren't that far away and I have plans to meet up with someone else off here anyway, whilst I was thinking about it just I realised I've actually met loads of people off here, but unfortunately, after another episode on the social media privacy thread, I think some people are living vicariously through me and they don't have the best of intentions, so I'm going to stop posting and ask Weeksy to delete the thread, some people don't know where the line is drawn.

If I do put it in the garage I'll pm you a link to a car forum where I can post this stuff without people burning their heads out with resent and we can link up there.

Fuck the moaners. You crack on mate.

[Mr Moofo]

I would love an air cooled Porsche. I just don't think I live in the right part of country to use one. And my fiscial responsibility would say 911 997 anyway!

[KungFooBob]

Porsche, how passe.

Ruf CTR for me please

[Mr. Dazzle]

I would love an air cooled Porsche. I just don't think I live in the right part of country to use one. And my fiscial responsibility would say 911 997 anyway!

How's about a nice all electric Macan SUV instead?

[Yorick]

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[Mr Moofo]

I would love an air cooled Porsche. I just don't think I live in the right part of country to use one. And my fiscial responsibility would say 911 997 anyway!

993 would do the job perfectly, many think they’re actually too good and a bit dull because of it.

My mate (the one you spoke to) reckons the 996 GT3 is the sweet spot, put decent suspension on and it’s all you’ll ever need. Personally I’d go one up and get the 997 GT3, the forum chaps claim that’s the one to have.

Porsche, how passe.

Ruf CTR for me please

I looked into it, IIRC they’re £750k, which is fine by me because I’m very sure I’d get my money back if I ever needed to liquidate it, but you need to put a massive deposit down and then wait a couple of years, perhaps longer, for delivery.

The 996 turbo never had the IMS issues or bore scoring
But I guess they still had the fried egg headlights?

[KungFooBob]

I've been driving my wife's new (to her) car today. It's not a Porsche.

I'm a teeny bit jealous. It's very perky, sharp steering and eager to go (for an auto diesel), but without being tiring.

If it had a full digital cockpit, adaptive cruise and a heated steering wheel, I'd probably be stealing it.

It's the same power as my car (which also isn't a Porsche), but half a ton lighter and the auto gearbox is loads better at choosing the right ratio for the situation.

[Noggin]

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I've been looking at the smaller version, the Sandero, but I've been told that they are expensive to fix/for parts, so being put off a bit!!

I know I'm not looking at posh cars (or even expensive ones!!) but I am going to see what Kia are like cos they do a decent warranty so in theory they don't think it will go wrong too soon!! (Or maybe they are persuading people to buy the cars and they will die in 8 years!! )

[KungFooBob]

Buy this!

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1985- ... arossa-18/

I'd buy it, but I'm really not sure about that interior.

[Yorick]

Buy this!

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1985- ... arossa-18/

I'd buy it, but I'm really not sure about that interior.

[Count Steer]

Buy this!

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1985- ... arossa-18/

I'd buy it, but I'm really not sure about that interior.

I'm sure about it. It's vile!

[v8-powered]

I bought another Porsche.
It's a 996 Carrera 4S, in a one-of-one PTS (paint to sample) metallic blue - basically the only factory car in that special paint.
Lots of options and it would have been a pretty special car when it rolled off the production line.

It's being stripped back to the shell, dipped, treated and then repainted the same colour, then turned into an RSR type build, blueprinted and vastly more powerful engine with exotic materials, fancy suspension, full cage, LSD, etc.
Basically it will be a GT3 RS+++, more bespoke, better in every way and very limited, individually numbered.

It will be the car that Porsche should have built but as they were strapped for cash at the time and the GT3 hadn't yet become the cash cow it is now, they didn't have the budget.

The brains in the industry think that the 996 is about to step into the space that the 964 currently occupies as the car of choice for special builds, even Singer have stopped using the 964, although they've gone backwards and they're doing a 930 special, but I have one of those.
The 996 is a very good platform to start with, still very raw and visceral, before Porsche sanitised their cars so average people could drive them fast and not crash into trees.

It will take about a year to build and won't be cheap, but these things never are and you only live once.

Needs a Potter's Porsches's thread! Pics are mandatory....

Intrigued to the colour - mate of mine (the watch buyer!) has a 996C2 and that is in a quite unique blue/green, haven't seen another in that colour but is reall nice.