Yeah, stop making stupid statements and read it off the Porsche web site- after all, they would never do anything but tell you how hard they work for their extra 9k, would they? The titanium coloured engine cover features inlays in carbon, how much 'sports' do you want for your 9k?

It is pretty expensive.

By way of comparison, look at the very similar packages offered by Litchfield to upgrade the Nissan GTR. Here, they use upgraded components such as Garrett Turbo components, upgraded titanium exhausts, new injectors etc to get the extra HP. And the cost of this stuff, while high, is not as high as Porsche are charging.

No doubt the Porsche kit contains a lot of profit.

Says it all really. Porsche assume that you either have stopped reading before the end of the article because you realised it was just marketing BS or that you're still reading and that you're naive enough to fall for it and in which case you might still be impressed by the fact that it has the colour of titanium (point of that being ?) and that there will be a measurable functional benefit to having carbon inlays on an engine cover. Carbon ? This is not 1995, is it ?

It costs a lot of money to get power out of an already highly strung NA engine, you're not in the same ballpark as you would be when tuning a turbocharged car. Granted, you'll pay a premium because it's coming from Porsche (the same reason you pay almost £1600 for cruise control) but it comes fully warranted with the same drivability etc as the normal engine.

To get the same performance gains from bolt ons you're probably looking at around £4k anyway, and then you have concerns about noise and reliability from different air filters, exhaust options and ECU maps.

ETA - dynamic engine mounts and PSE come standard with it anyway, which as additional options would be around £2.5k, leaving the internal engine upgrades for the X51 option at about £6.5k.

that advert is brilliant - what a noise - gives me goosebumps

If people are willing to pay £10k, then by what possible measure is it "worth" only £100?

I remember Eoin Young justifying buying a 911 back in the 1970's - while it was twice the price of anything else, he would have it twice as long and enjoy driving it twice as much. Not much has changed, then.

agree - can't believe they gave away the location of my favourite drive (past Lochindorb into Forres). It is the B9007 if you are up this way - aaargggh, even I'm doing it now!

Yellow suits the 991 IMHO. As a GT car my money's on the Porsche and although 90% of the time I'd choose a manual I think the PDK suits the car more.

The Audi's never really appealed to me, and at the end of the day I'd probably have a Cayman S over both these cars.

as long as the brakes dont need replacing during your ownership.i dont know about the porsche and audi brake costs,but my brothers mate was just quoted 8k TRADE ! price for a set of discs and pads for a gtr,after picking himself off the ground he went direct to nissan who did him a deal as the wear was a bit higher than they would expect for the mileage (this is scotland where you can actually drive cars spiritedly as opposed to sitting in endless traffic jams at most times of the day)and ONLY charged him 4.5k !

i am hoping someone will now come on and say he is over egging it by a large margin,thats a helluve a lot of cash for a set of discs and pads ! i do not care who it is,i doubt even coulthard would notice the extra performance of carbon ceramic brakes on the road or even on a track in a production road car