Prospective 991 GT3 Owners Discussion

[rosino]

RS is already being delayed. And I don't see why they would decrease allocations.. How are they going to tell people that had their order accepted and confirmed that.. "Sorry sir we are not making them anymore". They will deliver all that had their deposit accepted and maybe stop there. I think decrease down to 140 is wishful thinking from the crowd having one sitting idle.

[JJMatrixx]

Magic919 said:

isaldiri said:

Not a chance, 600 4.0 RS worldwide probably means <75 UK cars.

More like 29. Then some were exported.

Just checked How Many Left and right enough...maybe I got the 136 number from the 7.2 RS - sure I picked it up from this thread somewhere.

[APOLO1]

rosino said:

RS is already being delayed. And I don't see why they would decrease allocations.. How are they going to tell people that had their order accepted and confirmed that.. "Sorry sir we are not making them anymore". They will deliver all that had their deposit accepted and maybe stop there. I think decrease down to 140 is wishful thinking from the crowd having one sitting idle.

why do you say the RS is delayed?......

[Lost The Plot]

Ash MP4 12C said:

One week in and wow.

I am a shrinking violet and hate all the attention I am getting, well the car anyway

Thumbs up everywhere, people stopping to let me out at junctions, cars diving out of the way to let me past, people driving behind me with cameras etc.

Loving every second, and add to that the sheer driveability, and then hit the loud button, set to manual, flipping eck, this is by far the best I have ever owned or been in, and I have been in some nice kit.

McLaren, British design and British made.

Someone said to me yesterday that its the thinking mans supercar, well, I do not profess to be a thinking man, but thanks for the compliment

I am sure the GT3 is superb, but compared to this, sorry guys, no brainer, it is the ultimate supercar and for the price, why wouldn't you.

No offence anyone, I genuinely wanted the GT3 but was not prepared to wait, and nothing against Porsche.

A company run by human beings, guess what, we all make mistakes, give them some slack, they make superb machines, forget the damned politics and the whingeing about compensation. Heads will roll I'm sure, that's a person that will be losing a living.

Now, Le Mans, here we come, cant wait to see the 919, beautiful looking machine, that is what Porsche is about!

Apologies Ash and I really hope you don't take this the wrong way but for 'a shrinking violet' you seem to have been paying an awful lot of attention to others admiring your car.

[Ash MP4 12C]

Lost The Plot said:

Apologies Ash and I really hope you don't take this the wrong way but for 'a shrinking violet' you seem to have been paying an awful lot of attention to others admiring your car.

Accepted, never have been a shrinking violet, tongue in cheek, love the attention the car is getting.

[cayman-black]

Ash , picture then please.

[V8KSN]

I wonder what effect all this is having on 997 GT3 prices.

Only 140 odd 991 GT3s?

If thats true then the 991 GT3 will skyrocket up to the £150k level which will leave the £50-£60k 997 GT3 a BARGAIN!

[rosino]

APOLO1 said:

rosino said:

RS is already being delayed. And I don't see why they would decrease allocations.. How are they going to tell people that had their order accepted and confirmed that.. "Sorry sir we are not making them anymore". They will deliver all that had their deposit accepted and maybe stop there. I think decrease down to 140 is wishful thinking from the crowd having one sitting idle.

why do you say the RS is delayed?......

Well at the least the presentation of the car should already have been done.. All I have heard was that it had been put on hold until the GT3 debacle will be solved.. Which make sense as if you announce a more powerful version of an engine which self-destruct you are not doing yourself a favour

[Ash MP4 12C]

cayman-black said:

Ash , picture then please.

Edited by Ash MP4 12C on Tuesday 25th March 16:34

[cayman-black]

Wow thats just stunning! enjoy.

[Lost The Plot]

Ash MP4 12C said:

cayman-black said:

Ash , picture then please.

Edited by Ash MP4 12C on Tuesday 25th March 16:34

Yeah I can see why now.. Love the colour.. Can't wait to scream past you at 9000 rpm on the way down to Leman...can but dream!

[isaldiri]

Ash MP4 12C said:

[/footnote]

Good man - early swipe car as well. Volcano red paint is very very soft and the devil to touch up as I'm sure you have been told, do make sure the car gets wrapped with xpel or something...

[APOLO1]

rosino said:

Well at the least the presentation of the car should already have been done.. All I have heard was that it had been put on hold until the GT3 debacle will be solved.. Which make sense as if you announce a more powerful version of an engine which self-destruct you are not doing yourself a favour

you have lost me....The launch date on the RS at least here in the UK has not moved. The GT3 issues has no bearing on the RS, time wise. Bums will be in seats before the end of the year....

[rosino]

APOLO1 said:

rosino said:

Well at the least the presentation of the car should already have been done.. All I have heard was that it had been put on hold until the GT3 debacle will be solved.. Which make sense as if you announce a more powerful version of an engine which self-destruct you are not doing yourself a favour

you have lost me....The launch date on the RS at least here in the UK has not moved. The GT3 issues has no bearing on the RS, time wise. Bums will be in seats before the end of the year....

I am probably wrong but thought the launch of the RS would already have happened if they hadn't had the issues with the GT3 ? Anyways.. I don't really care, I just want my GT3 built and delivered ASAP, getting a car in September would make no sense. Let them get on with it and give us our cars. I just watched this which diverted me from going to McLaren London and snapping a Volcano Orange 2012 car for 125k.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtvQO8HISfQ

[mainly]

rubbaman said:

Just some updated info that I found out from Porsche today. I'm hoping you guys can get the same info in the UK.
I just got off the phone with PCNA. I called the 800-PORSCHE. Pushed the prompts for concierge and then spoke to a nice girl named Jenny.
She told me my car is definitely 2015 production. She gave me a case number and the person handling my case. (So I got that going for me. Which is nice. hahaha)
I asked her to let my Sales Rep. know this since he said PAG was not giving this info out. I asked her when I could expect to re-enter my build specifics for 2015
and she could not answer that at this time as PAG is trying to get the engine swap issue settled first.
My original build date was to exit production April 11 and delivery May 9. All those dates went blank last week and was replaced with a V170 code. PAG Handling Necessary.
Now I have new color to think about. In any case my car will be here later than expected but it will be MY2015.
PAG has a list of all cars that will be moved to MY2015. My dealer rep was no help at all. He denied there was a list, which I figured was a load of commie bull.
Hopefully PAG will give us a better date for production of 2015s soon.

strange, i had pretty much same time line as you( may 2nd) , but mine was later updated to june 13th delivery

[rubbaman]

mainly said:

strange, i had pretty much same time line as you( may 2nd) , but mine was later updated to june 13th delivery

Your delivery time is shorter. Mine is about 3 weeks from Zuffenhausen. So I suspect you were ahead of me. I think they drew the line in the sand for MY2014 cars at around 1000 cars. Just a guess really. So it will be interesting if yours is a 2014 or 2015. I don't think I will get a car until July - Sept. now.

[rosino]

BTW I spoke today to my OPC.. take with a pinch of salt of course b/c they would of course talk their book... BUT out of all the GT3 they had delivered (I believe around 5) only one has been rejected and owner reimbursed at the invoice price. Allegedly they have already sold it for above list (+10k I was told) despite the fact it can't be driven. A chap who had not secured an allocation but was on waiting list just went for it.

Other than that absolutely no news whatsoever about when production will start again of course.

Quick one for you to lighten up the atmosphere on here.. I still have this dilemma with the stitching.. and with availability of further options when they resume production would make it even worse.. on a plain WHITE car with PCCB.. would you go for :

- Platinum stitching to match the White of the car..
- Yellow stitching to match the PCCBs (but its a white car.. not sure about yellow stitching)
- Get PCCB calipers repainted RED (850gbp job at OPC) and RED Stitching which looks great on videos/pictures
- Get PCCB calipers repainted Black (850gbp job at OPC) and RED Stitching..

[sidicks]

rosino said:

BTW I spoke today to my OPC.. take with a pinch of salt of course b/c they would of course talk their book... BUT out of all the GT3 they had delivered (I believe around 5) only one has been rejected and owner reimbursed at the invoice price. Allegedly they have already sold it for above list (+10k I was told) despite the fact it can't be driven. A chap who had not secured an allocation but was on waiting list just went for it.

Other than that absolutely no news whatsoever about when production will start again of course.

Quick one for you to lighten up the atmosphere on here.. I still have this dilemma with the stitching.. and with availability of further options when they resume production would make it even worse.. on a plain WHITE car with PCCB.. would you go for :

- Platinum stitching to match the White of the car..
- Yellow stitching to match the PCCBs (but its a white car.. not sure about yellow stitching)
- Get PCCB calipers repainted RED (850gbp job at OPC) and RED Stitching which looks great on videos/pictures
- Get PCCB calipers repainted Black (850gbp job at OPC) and RED Stitching..

Personally I'd go with yellow stitching / yellow belts, but I don't believe that yellow stitching will be available. If not, standard stitching and yellow belts still looks great (same as my car).

Given the above, I certainly wouldn't pay anything (let alone £850) to paint the calipers! That £850 can be much better used for driver training etc!

Otherwise I'd go with red stitching / belts and ignore the fact that the stitching and calipers don't match.

[rubbaman]

rosino said:

would make it even worse.. on a plain WHITE car with PCCB.. would you go for :

- Platinum stitching to match the White of the car..
- Yellow stitching to match the PCCBs (but its a white car.. not sure about yellow stitching)
- Get PCCB calipers repainted RED (850gbp job at OPC) and RED Stitching which looks great on videos/pictures
- Get PCCB calipers repainted Black (850gbp job at OPC) and RED Stitching..

Red calipers, Red Stiching

[Scott Parker]

rosino said:

BTW I spoke today to my OPC.. take with a pinch of salt of course b/c they would of course talk their book... BUT out of all the GT3 they had delivered (I believe around 5) only one has been rejected and owner reimbursed at the invoice price. Allegedly they have already sold it for above list (+10k I was told) despite the fact it can't be driven. A chap who had not secured an allocation but was on waiting list just went for it.

Other than that absolutely no news whatsoever about when production will start again of course.

Quick one for you to lighten up the atmosphere on here.. I still have this dilemma with the stitching.. and with availability of further options when they resume production would make it even worse.. on a plain WHITE car with PCCB.. would you go for :

- Platinum stitching to match the White of the car..
- Yellow stitching to match the PCCBs (but its a white car.. not sure about yellow stitching)
- Get PCCB calipers repainted RED (850gbp job at OPC) and RED Stitching which looks great on videos/pictures
- Get PCCB calipers repainted Black (850gbp job at OPC) and RED Stitching..

Mine is white with PCCB's currently sticking with the platinum stitching, but with Yellow belts and floor mats with yellow edging. Would quite fancy the yellow stitching but not so sure its available. I really wouldnt paint my callipers, Yellow is the colour of PCCB.
For me:

Black = crap
Red = half decent
Yellow =
Green = Hybrid