Ferrari 488 GTB vs Porsche 911 Turbo S

[MDL111]

[patch5674]

I fking love the fact you weren't bullstting or exaggerating. Filled your FF with half of staples hahaha

[Carl_Manchester]

saw my first gen 2 turbo s coupe yesterday (new matt grey, black Fuchs) and it still leaves me cold from a visual standpoint. I don't want it to look like a Ferrari but Porsche keep beating it with the ugly stick.

[Shazbat]

WCZ said:

APOLO1 said:

Done about 2 hrs on road alone in 488, on my 4th 991 Turbo S, after about 30 plus track days in one and about 40k road miles. In my honest view, its close to call which is the better road car. Though I would agree with Sutts and his reasoning....As a daily driver it has to be the Turbo S, being able to just "lose it" in a car park, turn up on a track day press a few buttons and mix it with the fast stuff says it all...The Turbo S needs better tyres though....Pzeros not up to fast track stuff....

488 has lovely steering though

Are you one of these new age folk who thinks good steering is when its accurate and a fast rack ?

Sorry but every F post-348 has ste steering.

[Chris355]

If I had the choice, which I don't, I would buy Ferrari everytime, not because it is necessarily the better car from a performance point of view, just that it has a magic that Porsches don't. I own a 997 gen1 turbo btw so I don't come from a biased point of view and the 911 is probably a better car in many ways, but that's not the point.

Funnily, my friends and I were talking the other week about the 991 turbo saying that the styling appears to be moving closer to Ferrari, which I think is a really bad move. Im not against evolution, to an extent, but if I own a 911 I want it to look like a 911, I want it to have an iconic 911 shape.

[anniesdad]

They don't half take up a lot of road those two. Cars need to get thinner not fatter.

[franki68]

anniesdad said:

They don't half take up a lot of road those two. Cars need to get thinner not fatter.

yep the width and just insane level of performance of these cars makes them a scary proposition on UK roads.

[Gandahar]

franki68 said:

anniesdad said:

They don't half take up a lot of road those two. Cars need to get thinner not fatter.

yep the width and just insane level of performance of these cars makes them a scary proposition on UK roads.

You miss the point, these cars are just to go on a blat down a dual carriageway to impress your mate before popping down the pub

B roads, the best ones, are best left to more agile cars of course where you don't worry about your wing mirrors being on the other side of the road.

Two great cars for fat (sic) roads though

[WCZ]

Shazbat said:

Are you one of these new age folk who thinks good steering is when its accurate and a fast rack ?

kind of, yes

[Tripe Bypass]

Shazbat said:

Are you one of these new age folk who thinks good steering is when its accurate and a fast rack ?

Sorry but every F post-348 has ste steering.

IIRC the 348 has the steering rack from base model Fiat Tipo. Just shows what a mundane component used in a different application can do.