My great Saturday - my first drive of a Porsche
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Hi all,
Though I'd write a little ditty on my fantastic Saturday which I spent with my Father in Law (FIL) who I do all of his IT work for. This staurday just gone was scheduled to sort out a few issues, and setup all his remote comms equipment. But additionally it was meant to be a day of hanging out and catching up - you see I have a pretty good relationship with him, which is always nice.
The FIL has just recently puchased a 55 plate Porsche Cayenne Turbo, which, although me and a majority of people were agast that he was considering this and not an Aston or something much nicer, he's had it a few weeks now, and rightly so he explains that as a 'do it all' machine, it rocks. He's got a TVR Chimeara 5.0L in the garage, so he's not short of a sports car!
Anyway, I've been like a twelve year old when it comes to the Porsche (I'm like this with nearly any interesting car) and have been fiddling and looking at everything on it (Heated Steering Wheel!). Equally, I've also accepted that I'll just be a passenger, and while I joke with him all the time that I am technially insured through my insurance, it would be silly to drive a 75k behemoth on third party only insurance!
Anyways, long story short, we are driving away from where his factory is, and this is on a large private industrial estate, I said to him that we should go to this long straight road where he can really stamp on the accelarator (he's been learning to drive it slowly you see) and see what it can do. So we trot of to this mile long road (with speed humps
) and he stamps.
Holy Mother of Gods... A huge rumble, followed by a whoosh, and we're hitting 70! Five second 0-60 - I can well believe it. We do it again, giggling like schoolgirls. Rumble, Whoosh eek!
Anyway, we do this a few times, til he pulls over, and slips off his seatbelt. Oh shit!
'Go on, you have a go, I've been in the car with you enough to know you'll be ok'. Eek! So I get in, strap up and immediatly fluster and put the wrong foot on the brake (automatic you see). Anyhow, I recover, we laugh, and he holds the gear shift so I don't go trying to change gear.
So. I gently put my foot on the accelerator. Goodness this thing pulls, and I've only gently put my foot down. I put it down a bit further, and a funny scared type feeling brews up in my stomach. Eeek - I've never been scared driving a car!
We go over a speed hump, and I decide to gently put my foot down. Christ! In terms of speed/accelerator travel, this is monstrous!
I notice the next speedhump is very quickly upon us and I stamp on the (very large) brakes.
We retrieve our teeth from the dashboard.
So, going round the block, dodging lorries etc we chat about how nice it is to drive - and apart from the power, how easy. I fiddle with the TipTronic, which is wierd. My five second test tells me I prefer a normal stir it up box. No need for more gizmos. We roll round the corner, and not concentrating I pull away like I would in my Golf. Now the Golf has no torque, but is a powerful git - but all up high in the rev range.
As you can imagine my conversation went like this 'Yes Dave, it handles sweetly enough yada yada oh christ' - I'm doing 70 without realising!
Anyway, we get back onto the straight and I ask Dave if he minds if I go for it?
Go on
Right. *preparing for brown trouser moment* Stamp! Full kickdown, and - oh. my. god. this. thing. is. amazing. brakes. now. eek.
I do this again, and then pull over.
I feel like a very very lucky 12 year old. In a fat 28 year old body.
Now, some of you have got kit like this, or even faster stuff, but I thought I'd write a little story about how it feels for someone who hasn't got one, or even driven one. Hell, even ridden in one. Think back to the first tmi you were given a chance to experience your first true fast car, and you'll smile like I am still smiling.
My great Saturday. My first Porsche
Peace out homeys...
p.s on the way home he said that he is going to add me to his emergency insurance where when he ii involved in a journey, I can drive the car - so, for example, as he needs to get the TVR serviced, he wants me to drive the Porsche.
Oh, joy of joys
Though I'd write a little ditty on my fantastic Saturday which I spent with my Father in Law (FIL) who I do all of his IT work for. This staurday just gone was scheduled to sort out a few issues, and setup all his remote comms equipment. But additionally it was meant to be a day of hanging out and catching up - you see I have a pretty good relationship with him, which is always nice.
The FIL has just recently puchased a 55 plate Porsche Cayenne Turbo, which, although me and a majority of people were agast that he was considering this and not an Aston or something much nicer, he's had it a few weeks now, and rightly so he explains that as a 'do it all' machine, it rocks. He's got a TVR Chimeara 5.0L in the garage, so he's not short of a sports car!
Anyway, I've been like a twelve year old when it comes to the Porsche (I'm like this with nearly any interesting car) and have been fiddling and looking at everything on it (Heated Steering Wheel!). Equally, I've also accepted that I'll just be a passenger, and while I joke with him all the time that I am technially insured through my insurance, it would be silly to drive a 75k behemoth on third party only insurance!
Anyways, long story short, we are driving away from where his factory is, and this is on a large private industrial estate, I said to him that we should go to this long straight road where he can really stamp on the accelarator (he's been learning to drive it slowly you see) and see what it can do. So we trot of to this mile long road (with speed humps
) and he stamps. Holy Mother of Gods... A huge rumble, followed by a whoosh, and we're hitting 70! Five second 0-60 - I can well believe it. We do it again, giggling like schoolgirls. Rumble, Whoosh eek!
Anyway, we do this a few times, til he pulls over, and slips off his seatbelt. Oh shit!
'Go on, you have a go, I've been in the car with you enough to know you'll be ok'. Eek! So I get in, strap up and immediatly fluster and put the wrong foot on the brake (automatic you see). Anyhow, I recover, we laugh, and he holds the gear shift so I don't go trying to change gear.
So. I gently put my foot on the accelerator. Goodness this thing pulls, and I've only gently put my foot down. I put it down a bit further, and a funny scared type feeling brews up in my stomach. Eeek - I've never been scared driving a car!
We go over a speed hump, and I decide to gently put my foot down. Christ! In terms of speed/accelerator travel, this is monstrous!
I notice the next speedhump is very quickly upon us and I stamp on the (very large) brakes.
We retrieve our teeth from the dashboard.
So, going round the block, dodging lorries etc we chat about how nice it is to drive - and apart from the power, how easy. I fiddle with the TipTronic, which is wierd. My five second test tells me I prefer a normal stir it up box. No need for more gizmos. We roll round the corner, and not concentrating I pull away like I would in my Golf. Now the Golf has no torque, but is a powerful git - but all up high in the rev range.
As you can imagine my conversation went like this 'Yes Dave, it handles sweetly enough yada yada oh christ' - I'm doing 70 without realising!
Anyway, we get back onto the straight and I ask Dave if he minds if I go for it?
Go on
Right. *preparing for brown trouser moment* Stamp! Full kickdown, and - oh. my. god. this. thing. is. amazing. brakes. now. eek.
I do this again, and then pull over.
I feel like a very very lucky 12 year old. In a fat 28 year old body.
Now, some of you have got kit like this, or even faster stuff, but I thought I'd write a little story about how it feels for someone who hasn't got one, or even driven one. Hell, even ridden in one. Think back to the first tmi you were given a chance to experience your first true fast car, and you'll smile like I am still smiling.
My great Saturday. My first Porsche
Peace out homeys...
p.s on the way home he said that he is going to add me to his emergency insurance where when he ii involved in a journey, I can drive the car - so, for example, as he needs to get the TVR serviced, he wants me to drive the Porsche.
Oh, joy of joys
Glad you enjoyed it Neil, I remember my first drive in a Porsche as well and had the same kind of feelings!! Pity it wasn't a true Porsche though, a genuine Turbo 911 would have been a much much rawer (is that a word?) experience.
My first was at 21 (on my birthday), my dads 87 3.2 Sport in Stockbroker Braces Red, oh and at the 'Ring for good measure! Didn't stop smiling for days!!!! My Dad however, didn't smile at all, just went rather white for some reason...... He doesn't come round with me anymore, even if I'm in his cars!!!
My first was at 21 (on my birthday), my dads 87 3.2 Sport in Stockbroker Braces Red, oh and at the 'Ring for good measure! Didn't stop smiling for days!!!! My Dad however, didn't smile at all, just went rather white for some reason...... He doesn't come round with me anymore, even if I'm in his cars!!!
tiga84 said:
Glad you enjoyed it Neil, I remember my first drive in a Porsche as well and had the same kind of feelings!! Pity it wasn't a true Porsche though, a genuine Turbo 911 would have been a much much rawer (is that a word?) experience.
My first was at 21 (on my birthday), my dads 87 3.2 Sport in Stockbroker Braces Red, oh and at the 'Ring for good measure! Didn't stop smiling for days!!!! My Dad however, didn't smile at all, just went rather white for some reason...... He doesn't come round with me anymore, even if I'm in his cars!!!
Cheers dude, even though I still have reservations about the thing, it's proving to be a hell of a machine!
I think the experience you had would be very different to just driving a "normal" fast car, to do 0-60 in 5.2 Secs in an M3 wud be fun, but to do it in a full blown SUV / 4x4, that must be some feeling.
Id love to have a Turbo Cayenne personally & I agree that it is a car that can do everything, as for it being ugly - i disagree. Only seen one and that was Mike Cuddy's dark grey Turbo
The road presence was amazing.....
Id love to have a Turbo Cayenne personally & I agree that it is a car that can do everything, as for it being ugly - i disagree. Only seen one and that was Mike Cuddy's dark grey Turbo
The road presence was amazing.....Great story, glad you liked the car, I've had a ride in a V8 S but not a Turbo. I think I read somewhere that the Cayenne is receiving a power increase!
I've been extremely privileged to have been a passenger in a number of exotics (Murcielago, F40, 575M, 360, 911 GT2, Ruf R Turbo and "the daddy" aka McL F1!) but the fastest car I've driven (to date) would have to be the F430. I can only add to the superlatives that are written about this car as it is truly wonderful to drive. I can also confirm that over normal undulating B Roads the car does bottom out, making a simply horrible scraping noise. Sadly this does affect the confidence of the driver, when a particluarly bumpy stretch of road is apparent.
Most fun I've had in a car? Caterham Superlight R at Donington = fanbloodytastic!
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I've been extremely privileged to have been a passenger in a number of exotics (Murcielago, F40, 575M, 360, 911 GT2, Ruf R Turbo and "the daddy" aka McL F1!) but the fastest car I've driven (to date) would have to be the F430. I can only add to the superlatives that are written about this car as it is truly wonderful to drive. I can also confirm that over normal undulating B Roads the car does bottom out, making a simply horrible scraping noise. Sadly this does affect the confidence of the driver, when a particluarly bumpy stretch of road is apparent.
Most fun I've had in a car? Caterham Superlight R at Donington = fanbloodytastic!
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Porn
My first drive in a Porker was a 928 auto. It seemed well balanced but the way it went was a bit flat. It didn't feel fast.
I now put this down to the smooth torque curve - a contrast from the over-boosted turbo cars I was driving at the time; indicated 155mph in an Uno Turbo is much more 'exiting' (read just plain scary).
It also didn't help that I only drove the 928 around the holloway road/archway road area.
Since I've had bikes, nothing that I have had the opportunity to drive seems all that fast any more.
I now put this down to the smooth torque curve - a contrast from the over-boosted turbo cars I was driving at the time; indicated 155mph in an Uno Turbo is much more 'exiting' (read just plain scary).
It also didn't help that I only drove the 928 around the holloway road/archway road area.
Since I've had bikes, nothing that I have had the opportunity to drive seems all that fast any more.
anniesdad said:
Great story, glad you liked the car, I've had a ride in a V8 S but not a Turbo. I think I read somewhere that the Cayenne is receiving a power increase!
I've been extremely privileged to have been a passenger in a number of exotics (Murcielago, F40, 575M, 360, 911 GT2, Ruf R Turbo and "the daddy" aka McL F1!) but the fastest car I've driven (to date) would have to be the F430. I can only add to the superlatives that are written about this car as it is truly wonderful to drive. I can also confirm that over normal undulating B Roads the car does bottom out, making a simply horrible scraping noise. Sadly this does affect the confidence of the driver, when a particluarly bumpy stretch of road is apparent.
Most fun I've had in a car? Caterham Superlight R at Donington = fanbloodytastic!
S
Porn
Thanks for the comment - I wanted to give a nice account of the experience rather than slag it off for being ugly
I'm trying to convince him to come along to the next VMax (if we can get in) but he's being shy - it'd be hilarious to watch it take on some sport cars - very much in the Merc luxury camp of wafting along watching the TV (did I mention it had TV too?)
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