RE: Porsche 911 GT3 (991.2) : Review

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Ahonen said:

Yipper said:

Struggle to see the excitement on these things. Mate has got a GT3 RS and it is just a standard dull Porker with a bit of scaffolding in the back.

A good friend of mine (a proper professional racing driver and a man who drives a lot of supercars on track on a regular basis) reckons the 991 GT3 RS is, overall, the best car in the world. I'll take his opinion over yours.

Ha ha ha! Yipper hasn't got a "mate" with a GT3RS has he! Yipper just likes to get a post in on as many threads as possible. Usually this involves nothing more than copying and pasting whatever he finds on the first page of a Google search in an attempt to show personal knowledge on any given subject, even if it repeatedly back fires when the info he provides is either incorrect or his lack of understanding of both the subject and what he is copying lends him to make statements which are ignorant at best, dangerous at worst. Failing that he is just as happy to write nonsense comments like the one above, all for the sake of having a high post count? Who he is trying to fool is anyone's guess, unless he is content with merely fooling himself?

Edited by gigglebug on Sunday 30th April 09:25

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Rich_W said:

How Porsche choose to sell it's cars is up to them.

I find it odd though that they limit supply and keep costs low though.

This GT3 could easily be up for £160K list AND make them in larger numbers. Sure they'd still be flippers. But at least Porsche would be making more money than the investors.


Given the guy said the other day that Porsche is not about replacing hedge funds (or somesuch) you wonder why they don't tap the market a bit deeper.

Are manufacturers limited to how much profit they can make on any given product? I only ask as I can remember quit recently that a company was told it was making too much profit on it's product and was expected to reduce it's cost an therefore retail price.

[Ho Lee Kau]

Despite all the technical advancements, more power, rear-steering, PDK, electronic steering rack etc, I still yearn for 997.2 GT3, with it's honest and true hydraulics and manual. 435hp not enough? That's bks!

The new GT3s are simply far far too fast for the roads now. If a really modern car then I would prefer Cayman GT4.
But 997.2 GT3 for me is the pinnacle of true old-school Porsche sportscar.

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Ho Lee Kau said:

Despite all the technical advancements, more power, rear-steering, PDK, electronic steering rack etc, I still yearn for 997.2 GT3, with it's honest and true hydraulics and manual. 435hp not enough? That's bks!

The new GT3s are simply far far too fast for the roads now. If a really modern car then I would prefer Cayman GT4.
But 997.2 GT3 for me is the pinnacle of true old-school Porsche sportscar.

Subjective I know but I do think they are at least getting better looking. I always liked the rear wing on the 997.1 best though. That car just looked right.

[av185]

Ho Lee Kau said:

The new GT3s are simply far far too fast for the roads now. If a really modern car then I would prefer Cayman GT4.
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Not really.

Its all relative.

Both the GT3 and GT4 can be viewed as too fast for the road.

But so can a Fiesta.

[Ken Figenus]

av185 said:

...Porsche aren't interested in making say another £30k per car which they could do quite easily on this new GT3. Especially for the limited production UK market which would amount to relative peanuts. The big money comes from brand filtering to lesser lower range vanilla models and resultant increasing sales.

Overall a brilliant business strategy.

Unless you count those that then want no Porsche at all based on not being remotely in any fair running to buy the Porsche that suits them best... It's like going into an ice cream shop and Mr Ice Cream man telling you can have any ice cream you want as long its vanilla! Would you go back again - especially if you are more of a Tutti Frutti kind of 'top of the range' PH man?

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av185 said:

Ho Lee Kau said:

The new GT3s are simply far far too fast for the roads now. If a really modern car then I would prefer Cayman GT4.
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Not really.

Its all relative.

Both the GT3 and GT4 can be viewed as too fast for the road.

But so can a Fiesta.

Ah now, its a Cayman GT4. To use the acronym GT4 insinuates Celica

[anonymous-user]

The Official Porsche websites only says restricted supply on the UK configurator, ROW doesn't mention it... can one still walk in a dealership in ze fatherland or USA and order one?