Help choosing which GT3
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Harris_I said:
franki68 said:
The car was fairly new if I recall correctly.I actually thought I may be getting mixed up as I have driven a lot of cars over the years so had a quick look at some of the original road test reviews ,words like 'hard' and 'jiggles about a lot' were used in describing the ride.
Interestingly Harris wrote a piece about the car and pointed out that the first gen of it rode much nicer than the 2nd gen so maybe the one I drove was a later car.
Anyway if people love it fine,I understand much of the appeal but it was not something I enjoyed driving at the time.
It's never going to be a classic Citroen DS on hydropneumatic suspension, but I always felt most journos were poorly qualified to judge the 6 GT3.Interestingly Harris wrote a piece about the car and pointed out that the first gen of it rode much nicer than the 2nd gen so maybe the one I drove was a later car.
Anyway if people love it fine,I understand much of the appeal but it was not something I enjoyed driving at the time.
I drove the then-new 997 C2 with PASM back to back for a few hours with my then-standard 996 GT3 (mk 2) on fast but fairly challenging road surfaces (surface imperfections, cambers and crowns), and the 6 on standard passive dampers was significantly better damped than the 7 in either the sport or comfort setting (sport was just plain hard and unsophisticated, comfort was wallowy). The 7 (non-GT3 so you'd expect it to be tuned for comfort not racing) was all over the place at speed, the 6 took it in its stride.
Had a couple of Gen 1 997 GT3’s, I think your choice of word in unsophisticated is pretty much perfect. I bought the second example thinking it would make a good continent crusher, and found myself disappointed with how noisy and harsh it was. As you said, a completely standard 996 GT3 somehow seemed more refined.
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anonymous said:
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He’ll need to sort the poor gear ratios, the anti-roll bars (which are just “wrong”), the engine lacking in torque (anywhere) the horrendous understeer, replace the hopeless dampers and weak diff (and brace himself for a £30k refurbishment bill) before he even starts to consider enjoying it J !!Slippydiff said:
He’ll need to sort the poor gear ratios, the anti-roll bars (which are just “wrong”), the engine lacking in torque (anywhere) the horrendous understeer, replace the hopeless dampers and weak diff (and brace himself for a £30k refurbishment bill) before he even starts to consider enjoying it J !!
Or he could buy a Cayman R or 2 and be done with it 
Slippydiff said:
He’ll need to sort the poor gear ratios, the anti-roll bars (which are just “wrong”), the engine lacking in torque (anywhere) the horrendous understeer, replace the hopeless dampers and weak diff (and brace himself for a £30k refurbishment bill) before he even starts to consider enjoying it J !!
- We can but hope he keeps his self serving tripe to himself! JulierPass said:
Or he could buy a Cayman R or 2 and be done with it
Or failing that he could try to master the art of driving a slightly more analogue 911 ...or even find some roads better suited to the GT3 (though I can’t remember the last time I found myself behind the wheel of a 996/7 GT3 and thought « “well this road is wholly unsuited to my current mode of transport ...” but then as others have said, I don’t feel the need to drive everywhere bouncing off the rev limiter in every gear to get my kicks behind the wheel... maybe I’m missing something ???
Edited by Slippydiff on Tuesday 24th July 20:59
CrashBang said:
Slippydiff said:
He’ll need to sort the poor gear ratios, the anti-roll bars (which are just “wrong”), the engine lacking in torque (anywhere) the horrendous understeer, replace the hopeless dampers and weak diff (and brace himself for a £30k refurbishment bill) before he even starts to consider enjoying it J !!
- We can but hope he keeps his self serving tripe to himself! 
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