718 engine noise....confused!!

[bcr5784]

Urowho said:

Your ears aren't broken they're just different from mine. My test drive, where I really tried to convince myself the 718s they were offering me at a good discount was great failed on two counts; mostly the turbo lag. But it was totally killed off when I sat at some lights next to a 10yr old Vectra with a big bore exhaust and both cars sounded the same. £68,000 to sound like a souped up vectra with a sense of disconnection from the throttle. I've got other ways to spend my cash.

But if you like it then brilliant! hopefully people will stop finding the old ones at all appealing, especially the BGTS. But please let that happen soon, it's nearly summer.

Recent posts have focussed on noise (which I don't like either), but, like you, turbo lag was the key issue for me.

[P1 PET]

Urowho said:

My test drive, where I really tried to convince myself the 718s they were offering me at a good discount

What kind of discount have you been offered if you don't mind to share? Which Porsche centre was it?

[brakedwell]

P1 PET said:

What kind of discount have you been offered if you don't mind to share? Which Porsche centre was it?

That is something I would like to know too

[P1 PET]

brakedwell said:

That is something I would like to know too

Yes. I've spoken to quite a few OPC, and all said "we're sorry there's no discount for cars which are even difficult to buy".

Best APR i've found so far is 6.4% which i think is just a standard for new Porsche.

[tcs0tm]

P1 PET said:

Yes. I've spoken to quite a few OPC, and all said "we're sorry there's no discount for cars which are even difficult to buy".

Best APR i've found so far is 6.4% which i think is just a standard for new Porsche.

I think you'll find if you push they have access to 5.9% APR

[Pinball]

brakedwell said:

Same as old mindsets which said Gaydon built cars were not real Aston Martins or anything after the MGTF was not a real MG

And Porsches not built in Stuttgart.

[Pinball]

Cheib said:

It sounds a lot better than the current M3/M4 does at idle....that sounds bloody awful if you are standing near one when it's started up.

Agree. I test drive one and thought that straight away.

[P1 PET]

tcs0tm said:

I think you'll find if you push they have access to 5.9% APR

Thank you. I will try again although i am a bit shy to ask for discounts lol. 5.9% APR is what others in the forum are getting?

[tcs0tm]

P1 PET said:

tcs0tm said:

I think you'll find if you push they have access to 5.9% APR

Thank you. I will try again although i am a bit shy to ask for discounts lol. 5.9% APR is what others in the forum are getting?

Don't ask just say - " I need to check what the process is given i'm arranging my own finance. I have been offered 5.9% from my bank so i'm going with them"

They'll show you the same rate on their system

[Tim bo]

P1 PET said:

Thank you. I will try again although i am a bit shy to ask for discounts lol. 5.9% APR is what others in the forum are getting?

6.4% here.

[Magic919]

LiamH66 said:

Now there's an interesting question. Best sounding cross-plane V8 of all time for me? Probably a TVR Griffith, maybe Chimaera. Best sounding flat plane V8 of all time? Probably Judd EV, but DFV is another classic. Totally different sounding, but I just don't know how anyone can't think they both sound great.

Liam

I worked with a Chimaera owner and he was always going on about the flat plane crank. Do I need to tell him it was actually cross plane?

[bcr5784]

Magic919 said:

I worked with a Chimaera owner and he was always going on about the flat plane crank. Do I need to tell him it was actually cross plane?

I'm pretty sure the Chimaera and Griffith only used variants of the Rover V8 which had a cross plane crank. The later Cerbera had the AJP8 engine which had a flat plane crank.

[Magic919]

Ok, maybe that's what he had.

[jjr1]

I had a Boxster 718S with PSE for a day and drove it very fast and hard. It was absolutely brilliant. Super sharp steering and bloody fast. When I say fast, I mean it was wheel spinning at 50mph with traction off, in the wet and was quite incredible.

I then took it back to Porsche and drove a 981S Cayman up the road for a couple of miles and gave it a small spin. The steering was not as quick and the car felt a little less agile and certainly not as fast.

My decision was made. I bought a 981S Boxster with PSE just so I could hear that glorious noise and enjoy wringing the car out to the redline at every opportunity. The 718S just sounded like a hugely loud fart in comparison.

Edited by jjr1 on Sunday 26th March 10:16

[Dyffed]

What???.

[Nickel73]

Noise is fine with standard exhaust! Sounds like a tuned Bettle with pops and bangs.

[DJMC]

On a light hearted note... I laughed out loud when a 718 was started in the Solihull OPC showroom on launch night.

A spluttering beetle.

Sounds better on the move, but it's an acquired taste in noise. Still, some love Ducati...

[bcr5784]

DJMC said:

Sounds better on the move, but it's an acquired taste in noise. Still, some love Ducati...

Some like (adore) the sound of a racing air-cooled two stroke kart - and there was much beating of breasts when water cooling might be mandated or (worse still) they might be replaced by four-strokes. Personally I think they sound truly dreadful - and I've spent literally hundreds of days at kart tracks.

I definitely think that, for some, a highly tuned racing engine defines what an engine SHOULD sound like. Personally, I think most racing engines make a dreadful din - particularly if you share a garage with them.

[PhantomPH]

There are a lot of people saying the 718 sounds like a Beetle...I assume you all must mean the modern VW one or have never really heard what a classic Beetle actually sounds like! Put it this way - I wish my Beetles sounded like a 718!

[KTcarnut]

Drove a 718 S last week on loan for 2 days as they were trying to push me into that from my current 981 GTS. Quick car but that noise is so dull, actually made me drive slower as it sounded better at low revs. Handed it back to dealer and he asked me what I thought, all I said was 'that noise', he just looked at me and said 'I know'. They know it's crap