Come snow or rain...........944

[the_boy]

Hi guys and gals,

First post on this forum and I thought I'd better get down to brass tacks.

Basically I've got money burning a hole in my pocket and I've narrowed my decision down to either the 944 S2 (turbo if I could find a nice reasonably priced example) or a Celica GT4.

From a classic point of view the 944 wins hands down and I know it would retain it's value better. It would also be cheaper to insure and maintain. Basically more bang for my buck.

My question is what are they like in the rain and the snow? Are they a complete nightmare? The weather can get pretty bad up here in the North and I just want to make sure I can handle it once it starts to get nasty.

The GT4 would cope better but I'd much rather have the 944.

Has anyone got any advice.
Cheers

[the_boy]

Thanks for the replies

I'm not too bothered about the rain, it's snow that concerns me. Up here in the North ie. Newcastle we got a fair bit of it last year and since this will be my daily driver then I want to make sure I can get wherever I need to be.

Nice looking cars at Shirley's Garage but they seem a little overpriced, especially the turbo...........

Do snow chains actually work very well?

[the_boy]

slim_boy_fat said:

Yea £12k for a car with 170mph and sub 11 sec 0-100 potential. That cost the equivalent of £70k in todays money What are they thinking. Good 944ts are more and more difficult to come by, go and buy the Celica as its even cheaper mate...

No need to get tartish, I just reckon 12k for a car that is 15 years old is a bit steep. Most of the turbos I have seen advertised were around the 9k barrier.

But you'd know better than me

[the_boy]

In addition I see that car previously belonged to fesuvious which he was selling for £9750

Nice mark up on that...........