RE: Driven: Porsche 911 Cabriolet (991)

RE: Driven: Porsche 911 Cabriolet (991)

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kambites

67,461 posts

220 months

Monday 13th February 2012
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The Pits said:
apologies, I meant lighter as in kgs. Hydraulic sounds heavy, involving fluids and the like. Electronic sounds like a small black box is involved.
Oh I see, sorry. smile

I don't know anything about Porsche's system, but I have had the electric motor out of the OH's old Punto and it's pretty light - maybe a couple of kg? I'd be surprised if a hydraulic system wasn't a good few kg more.

Dagnut

3,515 posts

192 months

Tuesday 14th February 2012
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Boring...can we have a Chris Harris blog about how anti freeze is not as good value as it was 10 years ago?

roadie

593 posts

261 months

Tuesday 14th February 2012
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Sitting in that interior would be like sitting in a period. A bloody mess!

Dave Hedgehog

14,541 posts

203 months

Tuesday 14th February 2012
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dont get it

roof down motoring to me means lofting about enjoying the scenery enjoying the engine burble (ideally V8)

if you want to max hoon why compromise the car by lobbing the roof off?

Dagnut

3,515 posts

192 months

Tuesday 14th February 2012
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Dave Hedgehog said:
dont get it

roof down motoring to me means lofting about enjoying the scenery enjoying the engine burble (ideally V8)

if you want to max hoon why compromise the car by lobbing the roof off?
I bet you'd only notice the difference at 9/10ths...which would be very rare on the road

toppstuff

13,698 posts

246 months

Tuesday 14th February 2012
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Rarely have I seen a car with such a hideous interior.

What is it with Porsche interiors? Are they blind? Mad maybe?

Porsche expression of beige, grey or even blue is always a simply ghastly colour. And as for bright red, or that terracotta they offer, all of them are equally revolting.

I am staggered that, for decades now, someone deep inside Porsche offers a colour range to the committee and someone says "yes, love it, we'll offer that..."

Horrible. Just horrible.

ItsJustARide

108 posts

156 months

Tuesday 14th February 2012
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I've seen Californication. If you drive a convertible Porsche chicks strike up conversations at the lights and throw their phone number at you. Porn star chicks no less.

And don't muddy the issue by saying I need to look like Hank. Or that Shorpe doesn't have any attractive chicks. I need a lot of things right now but a reality check isn't one of them.

dlockhart

434 posts

171 months

Tuesday 14th February 2012
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with a 0-62 of 5.0 for a manual - I would simply buy the new Boxster S as the rear seats look completely unusable.

TheRoadWarrior

1,241 posts

177 months

Tuesday 14th February 2012
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No pictures with the roof up? ..and after you said how good it looked too!

pSyCoSiS

3,581 posts

204 months

Wednesday 15th February 2012
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That looks well-balanced compared to the previous efforts.

Still, prefer the lines of a 930 Speedster!

jakesmith

9,461 posts

170 months

Thursday 16th February 2012
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Very clever the way they have used a flatter light cluster to reduce the visual appearance of it's fat arse, although many quite like it's J-Lo behind myself included especially on a wide body. I do think it looks quite bland now as a result. Although it's somewhat out of my price range at the moment anyway.

fastgerman

1,911 posts

194 months

Thursday 16th February 2012
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jakesmith said:
Very clever the way they have used a flatter light cluster to reduce the visual appearance of it's fat arse, although many quite like it's J-Lo behind myself included especially on a wide body. I do think it looks quite bland now as a result. Although it's somewhat out of my price range at the moment anyway.
Yep my favourite part also :-)

I think all the vents/air ducts in the front bumper ruin the front compared to the 997. Not a duct fan, GT3 and GTS look much better than turbo models in my opinion. The coupe 991 looks great all round but still have preference to the 997 rear.

996 C4S looks great from the back, shame about the front though.

bqf

2,226 posts

170 months

Thursday 16th February 2012
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I have a 996 C4 Cab, and it's not, IN MY OPINION, ugly from any angle. It is also barely distinguishable from the coupe in terms of driving dynamics (I have driven both).

It would suffer on track, but I didn't buy it for that - I bought it for whizzing down to the seaside and having wind in the hair motoring. Like the golden age of sports car motoring used to be, when Compton and Edrich opened for England, the sun never set on the British without asking permission first etc..

Caper

11 posts

194 months

Saturday 18th February 2012
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bqf said:
I have a 996 C4 Cab, and it's not, IN MY OPINION, ugly from any angle. It is also barely distinguishable from the coupe in terms of driving dynamics (I have driven both).

It would suffer on track, but I didn't buy it for that - I bought it for whizzing down to the seaside and having wind in the hair motoring. Like the golden age of sports car motoring used to be, when Compton and Edrich opened for England, the sun never set on the British without asking permission first etc..
I couldn't agree more. I'd have the new one in a heart beat.

Verde

506 posts

187 months

Sunday 9th September 2012
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I'm at the end of the line for 911 Porsche's. I'm on my third, which I just love, a 997.1S Cab. But the new one is just too large, too automated, and the front end just less communicative which is exactly why I own the car. It seems to have lost the essence of what a 911 means to me. I plan to find a lovely 997.2 RS to shack up with for the next 5+ years. Soon too, before everyone figures out that the .2's might just the be last of the real 911's.
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Grant76

1,381 posts

204 months

Sunday 9th September 2012
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First 911 cab To sort out the fat arse problem.

Lovely looking machine!