RE: 'New' Porsche Carrera GT: Spotted

[Atmospheric]

Two points:

Manual and V10.

[Adz The Rat]

Fabulous car, a great piece of engineering and probably the best noise ever made by a road car.

[PHMatt]

As good as these and the SLR's were back then, IIRC, they're all LHD.

Part of me thinks if I have squillions to spend I'd stick a finger up to anyone refusing to make a RHD car for one of their biggest markets.
As for 2nd hand - I'd rather not spend every drive sat behind a bus with no idea what's going on.

[gigglebug]

PHMatt said:

As good as these and the SLR's were back then, IIRC, they're all LHD.

Part of me thinks if I have squillions to spend I'd stick a finger up to anyone refusing to make a RHD car for one of their biggest markets.
As for 2nd hand - I'd rather not spend every drive sat behind a bus with no idea what's going on.

It always annoys me too, especially with something like a P1 which is supposed to be British product. At least Aston made the effort to provide RHD One77's even if I don't particularly like it.

I also think though that if I was fortunate enough to have the money to buy hyper cars that I'd almost certainly have a second home somewhere warmer abroad anyway so the lack of RHD would possibly become irrelevant.

It's amazing how the CGT can go from looking so right to looking a bit odd simply by the introduction of the roof panels. It's still a good shape though but after a longer period of exposure I'm now preferring the 918, I didn't when it was first shown.

[TooMany2cvs]

PHMatt said:

Part of me thinks if I have squillions to spend I'd stick a finger up to anyone refusing to make a RHD car for one of their biggest markets.

Hardly...

Porsche sold 225,000 cars worldwide in 2015 (more than 150k of them were Macans and Cayennes)
The single biggest market was... China. 58k. US second, 52k. The European total was 76,000, with Germany the biggest individual, 29k. The UK? Only 12,167 cars - about 5% of the global total.

[WCZ]

PHMatt said:

As good as these and the SLR's were back then, IIRC, they're all LHD.

Part of me thinks if I have squillions to spend I'd stick a finger up to anyone refusing to make a RHD car for one of their biggest markets.
As for 2nd hand - I'd rather not spend every drive sat behind a bus with no idea what's going on.

agreed.

I think it contributes to massive premiums on other 'special' ltd edition cars which were availible in RHD like the 599 GTO etc

[malucnojes]

For me I would be taking a trip to Romans with my £1m and taking this lovely Black one off their hands:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...

and then using the change to buy this:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/m...

[Dave Hedgehog]

malucnojes said:

For me I would be taking a trip to Romans with my £1m and taking this lovely Black one off their hands:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...

and then using the change to buy this:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/m...

you are a wise man

[anniesdad]

malucnojes said:

For me I would be taking a trip to Romans with my £1m and taking this lovely Black one off their hands:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...

and then using the change to buy this:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/m...

[Quickmoose]

Stonking machine!
Must be used though.

It has some uncomfortable viewing angles without doubt, but it has some other angles that more than make up for it...plus noise.
Silver with red interior.... top class...

[MarshPhantom]

Astonishingly pretty?

That is one the worst looking cars I've ever seen.

Porsche should employ someone that can design nice looking cars for a change.

[MarshPhantom]

[anonymous-user]

Still the ultimate as far as I'm concerned. That black one is a beauty!!

[British Beef]

Atmospheric said:

Two points:

Manual and V10.

Can can get both in an Audi R8, last shape. I wonder if they will ever be silly money?

Money no object, I would swing for an F50 - manual and V12.

[SRT Hellcat]

You should see the Romans car in the flesh. Pictures just do not do this car justice. Absolutely stunning in real life.