918 First thoughts

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Anjum said:

WP comes with no paint - you're offered a wrap to keep weight down - but I reckon Liquid silver or Liquid Blue looks the bks - at a €40K cost!

If I was ordering from new I'd have liquid silver I think, but I've grown rather fond of the black. I'm not sure about the liquid blue from the pics , just looks the same as the silver on my turbo s !

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DSL 5 isn't mine I'm afraid but the original owners. Hopefully DVLA will give it back soon so mine can go on

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80sMatchbox said:

Interested to know why you moved it on. Didn't get on with it, or enough other toys to keep you busy?

He just said I looked better in it. Personally I thought that was fair enough...

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footsoldier said:

I'll just tag on to this thread...picked my car up last Tuesday.

It's had a fair workout, and safe to say I know it inside out now. Fantastic piece of engineering which is hard to appreciate until you get close, and can try it out in all the roles it's capable of:


Last Tuesday morning, under cover



Leipzig on track after laps in Porsche's GT3 and 918



Spa the next morning (hit 321kph on autobahn en route...)



Back to Edinburgh to register in UK


Well looked after at Edinburgh airport



Quick trip to Silverstone



Monday night, needs a rest...

Simply brilliant !
What do you thin about the way it drives ?

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footsoldier said:

Not sure that I agreed to this going on Youtube, but just found out it's there now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB17kyCrjs8

This was about the only clean lap, but unfortunately i was in road suspension setting at the time, and has used a lot of the boost on previous lap, so lost a bit of speed on the run up to end.

It drives ok...

Haha the car is very fast. Good for you using and abusing it too - looking forward to having some time to get mine in track