Would love a TVR but
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Haven't decided yet, and every time the guy in my building takes out his Griff I watch with envy.
Surely he knows where to have it serviced
(understand now, just being thick) The following (me speaking up for Tivs) is _never_ going to happen again.So here goes:
why not get a Griffith. They're not the last word in mechanical refinement/complexity so you ought to be able to find someone to mend it. I'd rather drive anything other than a standard Boxster
, though the S is MUCH better. If a Boxster engine lets go I can't imagine there are a vast number of specialists and a rebuild (in the UK) is £9k ++. I'd sooner drive a thundering V8 in OZ than a hairdresser's car. So there you go.
Oh, and in answer to Christof, my 993 eats TVRs in anything other than a drag race. It's something called _handling_...
Whoa - didn't mean to start a TVR-Porsche slanging match. But as we've started....
Seriously I like Porsches, they make me feel a whole lot better every time I sit in my car. Besides my Chimaera eats Porsches on any road for driving entertainment. Its something called fun.
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my 993 eats TVRs in anything other than a drag race. It's something called _handling_...
Seriously I like Porsches, they make me feel a whole lot better every time I sit in my car. Besides my Chimaera eats Porsches on any road for driving entertainment. Its something called fun.
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Whoa - didn't mean to start a TVR-Porsche slanging match. But as we've started....
Christof started it sir! Too right about fun BTW, in an ideal world I'd have a Tiv and a 911 so I could take in country road blasts and cross-continent jaunts. Horses for courses methinks.
Edited by jaydee on Monday 17th December 10:48
Yeah but, try factoring in 3 years and 30,000 miles and see what it comes out at the end - ooo, you really do need big money to get one of those.
Friend of mine just getting rid of his Boxster (not a problem with the car, just bored!) and he was chatting with the salesman at the dealership - seems that most people that get Porsche 911 Turbos do so on residual values. The get a PCP from Porsche finance for a year or so, put a big deposit down and then minimal monthly payments. Then after a year or so, give the car back with no penalties and trade it in against a new one again - this way they keep getting new models...
Nice idea, but I would hate to think of what would happen should the bottom fall out of the car market - we have seen some of this recently, but imagine if they get caught in the depreciation cycle..... Not just thousands lost - but tens of thousands.... Blimey, makes me cringe just thinking about it.
Cheers,
Paul
Friend of mine just getting rid of his Boxster (not a problem with the car, just bored!) and he was chatting with the salesman at the dealership - seems that most people that get Porsche 911 Turbos do so on residual values. The get a PCP from Porsche finance for a year or so, put a big deposit down and then minimal monthly payments. Then after a year or so, give the car back with no penalties and trade it in against a new one again - this way they keep getting new models...
Nice idea, but I would hate to think of what would happen should the bottom fall out of the car market - we have seen some of this recently, but imagine if they get caught in the depreciation cycle..... Not just thousands lost - but tens of thousands.... Blimey, makes me cringe just thinking about it.
Cheers,
Paul
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You'll never, ever, have as big a grin in any other car for the same money.
And hopefully I have the hang of this smileys mallarky.
Have to say I have made life great over the past six years, and the only thing that has contributed more than I could have imagined is Loopy Lou.
I think I love her, which is a relief as that means that it is not just Paul that loves her and it doesn't cause I rift!! We can both dreamily talk of her in the wee hours of the morning and neither one of us is offended.
I still can't believe how beautiful she is and that we own her, how lucky are we to be able to do this. Hopefully it will last a lifetime but if not we have still done it.
Smudge
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"Besides my Chimaera eats Porsches on any road for driving entertainment. Its something called fun" - BTOM
Bennno – he was talking driving entertainment not speed. Why is everyone obsessed with speed?
TVR owner one day (after Christmas)
Edited by MikeyT on Tuesday 18th December 00:26
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thanks for the joke. A 996 is never ever as fast as a 4.5.
In fact, I was overtaken only twice on the german autobahn: From a McLarenF1 and a Ferrari F40.
Christof: So bloody what? Who the hell cares what is quicker than what? Tedious and it's all been said
TVR owner one day (after Christmas)
If I had enough money my garage would contain the following cars, TVR 450SEAC, TVR Tamora, Porsche 911 (993) and a Range Rover (for winters, it is currently down to minus 20 C here) 
all TVRs and Porsches perform above the average, a few tenths to 60 and a few miles an hour top speed difference make absolutely no difference IMO.
all TVRs and Porsches perform above the average, a few tenths to 60 and a few miles an hour top speed difference make absolutely no difference IMO.I have bought my cars in the past specifically for the cars themselves and not for the badge on the front..
Not being in the same league (£wise) as most of the people in this thread I'm happy to say that I ran and really enjoyed my 1974 Porsche 914, before selling it to buy my TVR S. Both cars were/are great for different reasons.
The TVR is MUCH faster than the 95bhp 2.0l engine in the Porsche, but the Porsche still had its really good points and was well balanced on the road being mid engined and rwd, also looked odd, and sounded loud :-)
Do I have to be branded a W**ker for enjoying a classic sportscar with a Porsche badge?
Not being in the same league (£wise) as most of the people in this thread I'm happy to say that I ran and really enjoyed my 1974 Porsche 914, before selling it to buy my TVR S. Both cars were/are great for different reasons.
The TVR is MUCH faster than the 95bhp 2.0l engine in the Porsche, but the Porsche still had its really good points and was well balanced on the road being mid engined and rwd, also looked odd, and sounded loud :-)
Do I have to be branded a W**ker for enjoying a classic sportscar with a Porsche badge?
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