Supercars spotted, some rarities (vol 7)

[ess]

Spotted on a recent trip to Canada.
Fisker Karma being well used in a wintery Toronto.
Lovely proportions only let down by an ungainly face and those door handles.

S

[av185]

DickyC said:

As I ambled about looking at them more closely the size of the Turbo's brakes intrigued me. The other one was a Carrera and while not a Porsche expert its comparatively small brakes suggested the Turbo was a bit special.

The Turbo S has ceramic brakes (yellow calipers) as standard.

The Carrera has smaller diameter steel brakes (red calipers) as standard.

Rapid that the Turbo S undoubtedly is, it's main problem is lack of driver involvement detachment and little feedback plus sheer weight, and from a drivers perspective there are far better namely GT Porsches and albeit a very limited number of offerings from other manufacturers.

[Butter Face]

av185 said:

Those Porsche owners are getting younger and younger!

[av185]

Yep the snowflake pcper generation don't know how lucky they are. :

[DickyC]

av185 said:

The Turbo S has ceramic brakes (yellow calipers) as standard.

The Carrera has smaller diameter steel brakes (red calipers) as standard.

Rapid that the Turbo S undoubtedly is, it's main problem is lack of driver involvement detachment and little feedback plus sheer weight, and from a drivers perspective there are far better namely GT Porsches and albeit a very limited number of offerings from other manufacturers.

Thanks for that. The couple who climbed in and drove it away were a bit older than me which puts them in their seventies. Which was a surprise. Good on 'em.

[BlueHave]

ess said:

Spotted on a recent trip to Canada.
Fisker Karma being well used in a wintery Toronto.
Lovely proportions only let down by an ungainly face and those door handles.

S

Compared to the Tesla Model S it doesn't look very attractive at all. In saying that they are 4-5 year old.

[Dapster]

This may be the press car, in which case the driver is possibly a journo as the other day, this was outside

[numtumfutunch]

Dapster said:

This may be the press car, in which case the driver is possibly a journo as the other day, this was outside

If that's indeed a London street scene then it's a journo who's clearly doing better than most, unless it's Richmond where GG publicly settled and writes about

FNE is usually on the press cars, do they use them as demos too?

[av185]

Yes that Lava Orange GT3 RS with Reading RF registration is one of the Porsche Press cars.

[Jonnny]

Terrible picture I'm afraid chaps.

Great car in real life, doesn't look all that in pictures.

• EDIT* Oh dear, it's upside down!

[V8LM]

Dapster said:

They all look the same to me.

[av185]

Yeah all cars look the same.

[Plug Life]

V8LM said:

They all look the same to me.

Put a Tatra 97 there and you have the full lineage.

[Laurel Green]

[Europa1]

Jonnny said:

Terrible picture I'm afraid chaps.

Great car in real life, doesn't look all that in pictures.

• EDIT* Oh dear, it's upside down!

Was it displaying a blue badge, out of interest?

[LotusOmega375D]

It probably fell out when he opened the door.

[Fun Bus]

Are the disabled not allowed supercars?

I don't think it's a disabled bay anyway. Look closer.

[Jonnny]

Fun Bus said:

Are the disabled not allowed supercars?

I don't think it's a disabled bay anyway. Look closer.

It is a disabled bay, but was only in for 2 mins - one of the salesmen at our place sold the owner an RS6, and popped in to show him this.

Thanks for flipping it over!

[Fun Bus]

Ah, ok. I thought I could see lines within the bay which the disabled bay next to it doesn't have.

[Jonnny]

Fun Bus said:

Ah, ok. I thought I could see lines within the bay which the disabled bay next to it doesn't have.

No, you're correct

It's an MOT bay.