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Great Pretender
23,749 posts
83 months
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melvster said: 991 just looks to complicated, the interior is a mess with that raised console and the dash is no improvment on the 997 IMO. Worst thing for me is the door mirrors, they look horrid on the door instead of where the a-pillar meets the door oh and the fact a good spec Carrera S is 85 - 90k. Too expensive. Would have agreed with you until I sat in one. Gear lever perfectly placed now. Cabin very un-911 like I'll grant you, but it is a lovely place to be nonetheless. Favourite feature? The 'lip' atop the dash - carried over from the 997 - which keeps sunglasses in place during all but the most enthusiastic cornering.
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Beefmeister
10,815 posts
99 months
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Everyone dislikes the 991.
Until you drive one, at which point you start to wonder which family members you could sell to North Korea.
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Great Pretender
23,749 posts
83 months
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Beefmeister said: Everyone dislikes the 991.
Until you drive one, at which point you start to wonder which family members you could sell to North Korea. Hmmm, It is a big car though. Perhaps a little too big. Handsome thing all the same.
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W00DY
7,848 posts
95 months
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melvster
5,454 posts
54 months
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Brilliant advert, mentioned everything i would ask if i was in a position to buy. Looks a really honest example and wears its 25 years with pride.
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Great Pretender
23,749 posts
83 months
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melvster said: Brilliant advert, mentioned everything i would ask if i was in a position to buy. Looks a really honest example and wears its 25 years with pride. Would you ask the surnames of the previous owners too?
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W00DY
7,848 posts
95 months
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Great Pretender said: melvster said: Brilliant advert, mentioned everything i would ask if i was in a position to buy. Looks a really honest example and wears its 25 years with pride. Would you ask the surnames of the previous owners too? I'm not keen on that either. I just thought it slipped in the Doctor owned for 22 years thing that some may like without sounding as t  ttish. In retrospect I think it failed. Cheers melvster! It could do with a lot of tidying, I haven't even bothered to proof read it yet.
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7ss
519 posts
91 months
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melvster said: Have yet to see the latest Sept 11th droptop in the flesh but that's the first pic I've seen where it looks ungainly. In every other photo it looks like the first one since the first Speedster that wasn't designed by Silver Cross. Edit, for those that didn't order PDK. 9th Nov.
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cmoose
18,610 posts
98 months
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LHD said: I wouldn't. They look a bit crap from behind, but apart from that they're great. Would prob take one over anything short of a GT3. Mainly because they feel that little bit smaller and more intimate than the modern 911, which has ballooned into a fairly large GT car.
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cmoose
18,610 posts
98 months
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7ss said: Have yet to see the latest Sept 11th droptop in the flesh but that's the first pic I've seen where it looks ungainly. In every other photo it looks like the first one since the first Speedster that wasn't designed by Silver Cross.
Edit, for those that didn't order PDK. 9th Nov. That's a 997, shirely.
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Hitch78
3,836 posts
63 months
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I love the bulbous rump of all previous gen 911 verts. Offers a touch of character.
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ferrisbueller
14,693 posts
96 months
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Rain, you say. In Belgium, you say. Amazing.
Never did understand the relevance of a Dr owning a car.
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S3_Graham
10,685 posts
68 months
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L100NYY
26,784 posts
112 months
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melvster
5,454 posts
54 months
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7ss said: Have yet to see the latest Sept 11th droptop in the flesh but that's the first pic I've seen where it looks ungainly. In every other photo it looks like the first one since the first Speedster that wasn't designed by Silver Cross.
Edit, for those that didn't order PDK. 9th Nov.
It is a 997.2
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Monsterlime
345 posts
35 months
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S3_Graham said: That is an amazing thread. Thank you for sharing!
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Chrisw666
20,868 posts
68 months
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Great Pretender said: Beefmeister said: Everyone dislikes the 991.
Until you drive one, at which point you start to wonder which family members you could sell to North Korea. Hmmm, It is a big car though. Perhaps a little too big. Handsome thing all the same. Big V a 997 way or Big in a Continental is now a viable alternative way?
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S3_Graham
10,685 posts
68 months
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L100NYY said: Morning. Morning guv, Been out on my bike. Dying now.
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Beefmeister
10,815 posts
99 months
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Chrisw666 said: Great Pretender said: Beefmeister said: Everyone dislikes the 991.
Until you drive one, at which point you start to wonder which family members you could sell to North Korea. Hmmm, It is a big car though. Perhaps a little too big. Handsome thing all the same. Big V a 997 way or Big in a Continental is now a viable alternative way? It's a little bit bigger than a 997. Nowhere near a Conti. I can imagine that a 991 C2S Cab with Powerkit is pretty much all the sportscar you could ever need. 2+2, folding roof that's as good as a metal one when up, 430 bhp, stunning looks even with the roof down (a first for 911s), epic noise, cracking interior. Okay okay, it'll be about £110k with the 'essential' options, but still massive want.
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L100NYY
26,784 posts
112 months
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S3_Graham said: L100NYY said: Morning. Morning guv, Been out on my bike. Dying now. On one wheel?!? Crikey...!  Going to go out for an early morning jaunt on the Cube in the morning...... pending no heart failures in the meantime, obviously....This is opposite the flatartment. Which is nice. 
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