How to buy a new GT car from Porsche? Impossible?

[CarNutJob]

Having had my fingers burnt on both the GT4 and GT3 RS, with LOI in on both a long time ago, deposits paid etc. How on earth do normal folk, who are not multi millionaires who buy 3 or 4 Porsch's a year, get to buy one of these things now that the LOI system has been trashed?
Is it based on OPC ass kissing?
Brown envelopes?
Buy a car you don't want with a promise on a secondary agreement for a GT car build slot later?
Dark arts?

Or just wait till they come back on the 2nd hand market and pay the premium?

For all the guys on here with GT4 slots, and new RS slots, how did you do it?

[CarNutJob]

I reckon Porsche could make all this go away with 600 more RHD GT4s and 400 more RHD GT3 RSs. £100m worth of sales for Porsche, lots of happy UK customers, more people into GT cars enjoying their product and becoming advocates, speculators are history, huge additional profits from servicing and re-sales, huge profits from finance and insurance sales.

Build 900 UK GT4 RS's in RHD too please.

[CarNutJob]

Just come back from Geneva, worst fears came true, the GT4 looked the nuts sat there on the stand, I was shocked that even the GT3 RS sat next to it did not overshadow it. I would say there was equal interest in each car.
Shame I couldn't buy either car, they looked simply stunning.

488 looks identical to the 458, back end slightly different but from the front you would struggle to tell.

R8 was underwhelming, Im sure it goes well though.

New McLaren looked like the others, but again Im sure It goes very well. Same trick as the 488, same car from all angles as the 650 apart from the backside.

NSX was very pretty, should have enough to worry the big boys again.

Car of the show for me, Ford GT40, WOW what a machine. Hats off Ford, that is an amazing looking machine, never seen anything like it. All my mates with today all voted the same way too. Hmmmmmm, how much are they again??

[CarNutJob]

mollytherocker said:

CarNutJob said:

Just come back from Geneva, worst fears came true, the GT4 looked the nuts sat there on the stand, I was shocked that even the GT3 RS sat next to it did not overshadow it. I would say there was equal interest in each car.
Shame I couldn't buy either car, they looked simply stunning.

488 looks identical to the 458, back end slightly different but from the front you would struggle to tell.

R8 was underwhelming, Im sure it goes well though.

New McLaren looked like the others, but again Im sure It goes very well. Same trick as the 488, same car from all angles as the 650 apart from the backside.

NSX was very pretty, should have enough to worry the big boys again.

Car of the show for me, Ford GT40, WOW what a machine. Hats off Ford, that is an amazing looking machine, never seen anything like it. All my mates with today all voted the same way too. Hmmmmmm, how much are they again??

Thanks for the review, but thats just looks yes?

Yes, they don't let you drive them at the show!

[CarNutJob]

mollytherocker said:

CarNutJob said:

Yes, they don't let you drive them at the show!

I know. I am just making the point that looks are only a component part of a car.

Of course not, but that's all we can judge them by at Geneva unfortunately. You can tell a lot about a car by its poise, ride height, engine power and performance figures, wheel alighnemtnt settings, tyres and wheels, brake discs and callers etc. if it looks like it's a double hard bd, it probably goes like one too, and the GT40 looked like a psychotic axe murderer.