959 Comfort for sale

[MrkyMrk]

On behalf of "friend of a friend" (if only I could afford it myself...)

www.tjracing.co.uk/959/

[dazren]

Adverts here please:

www.pistonheads.com/sales/index.asp?c=41

DAZ

[MrkyMrk]

Apologies for breach of ettiquette.

[domster]

At 105k, an interesting alternative to a 996 Turbo X50, if you could live with the running costs.

[verysideways]

One word:

Yummy.


(and the depreciation would make up for the running cost difference i reckon)

[koenig999]

If you can afford £105k, you MUST be able to afford the running costs!

"New tyre sensor for the FNS wheel is it - £14k please!"

Koenig

[Marki]

koenig999 said:

If you can afford £105k, you MUST be able to afford the running costs! "New tyre sensor for the FNS wheel is it - £14k please!" Koenig

I have heard storys of silly prices for spare on these but

[basil brush]

There was a 959 running report in 911&PW for a while. IIRC the guy had to have a new dizzy cap fitted which cost something like £1000 including the 4 or 5 hours labour needed to strip the back end of the car down to get to it.

[Vesuvius996]

*faint*

*thud*

[cyberface]

Yep that looks like a very tempting price - however if you can just afford a 100k car, you probably can't afford to run a 959...

Those parts prices take the piss - there are plenty of modern supercars around the 100k price point, but 14k for a tyre sensor? Sod the originality, you could get it re-engineered with state-of-the-art stuff for that.

I'd still love one though, interestingly my 'dream' car is the 993 GT2, good examples of which cost more than this 959!!!!

[aasc]

I know this isn't really the point of a 959 now but how does current 996 turbo performance compare with the 959?

[Marki]

aasc said:

I know this isn't really the point of a 959 now but how does current 996 turbo performance compare with the 959?

Car did a head to head on this when the 996 TT first came out , i think the 996 was faster A to B but the 959 was more raw and involving

[trickywoo]

MrkyMrk said:

On behalf of "friend of a friend" (if only I could afford it myself...) www.tjracing.co.uk/959/

He's not a chicken farmer is he?