RE: 911 Carrera RS: PH Heroes

[Strugs]

SidewaysSi said:

Leonardo101 said:

What is PH’s fascination with supped up beetles, I just don’t get it they are terrible cars!

But you drive a Daewoo Lanos...

He also thinks Jenson Button is "mediocre"..

[SidewaysSi]

Leonardo101 said:

SidewaysSi said:

I think the square root of fk all is probably the truth.

Haha more than 99% of people on here!
I’ve been an automotive design engineer for over 30 years working all over the world.
I spent 3 years working for Porsche in weissach on the 993 & 928 & I’ve owned a 964 & 993 I should have learnt by my mistakes as they are awful cars!

Tim to roll out the Birds I think...

If that is true, then their recruitment process must be pretty crap. Most automotive design engineers are pretty short sighted and limited given legislation so personally I don't take much stock in their abilities.

But out of interest, where do you work now and what do you drive /class as being OK in your opinion?

[j90gta]

You really need to somehow blag a drive in a 1974 3.0 RS. It is quite simply a better car than the 2.7. 230 bhp, 950 kg weight, brakes from a 917; the best 911 ever built.

[KurtB]

Surely the manufacturer didn't think so, else it wouldn't have been replaced.

[Escort3500]

Fabulous car (apart from the colour ) and a really good article. One of my favourite Porsches

[CSK1]

One of my favourite cars. I still have fond memories of my dad's 2.7RS Touring, one of the first 500, Grand Prix white with red lettering, fully-restored, upgraded 917 brakes. Fantastic cars.
He sold it in 1990 to a German collector.
I wonder where this car is right now.

[Esceptico]

j90gta said:

You really need to somehow blag a drive in a 1974 3.0 RS. It is quite simply a better car than the 2.7. 230 bhp, 950 kg weight, brakes from a 917; the best 911 ever built.

It will certainly be quicker but then there are many quicker 911s than the 2.7. Will it be better? Not sure. The 2.7 is a Goldilocks car for me. Has just right amount of power and as importantly the right amount of tyre for road use. I would expect the 3.0 RS to be better on track but with wider rears not as adjustable on the road. Like newer GT3s - if you get it sliding on the road you are probably doing speeds that are frankly unjustified on a public highway. The 2.7 has lower limits and so you can access them more readily.

[coppice]

As I am a mere civilian obviously I've never driven one but to me they are the best looking 911 of all (RSR apart ) . Thankfully they lack the humongous arse of later iterations of 911 and I think that they just keep on looking better. Time has been far kinder to it than (retch ) 'icons ' like the E- Type , which looks more absurd each passing year to my eyes .

I saw RS's in period on special stage (reg no JCT 600 - Jack Tordoff) and race track - having watched two annihilate all comers at Croft in a production sports car race they later overtook us on the A1 South at high speed .

[DPSFleet]

Truly special and in a world of excess this car is real world usable, you can go shopping in it, tour through Europe and park it in a normal space. Silly prices , yes but a backdate is much cheaper and arguably as much fun......take a look at the one in Classic and Sportscar for around £75k

[ralfw]

Richard A said:

Try this YT vid of a fast, well driven Nordschleife circuit in a fairly standard 3.0 SC . If you don't get it after that, well...

I love that video. It’s actually a Carrera 3.0, of which I own one myself, and I cannot believe how he throws it around the Ring like that. Would be great to meet that guy.

[Escort3500]

Leonardo101 said:

SidewaysSi said:

I think the square root of fk all is probably the truth.

Haha more than 99% of people on here!
I’ve been an automotive design engineer for over 30 years working all over the world.
I spent 3 years working for Porsche in weissach on the 993 & 928 & I’ve owned a 964 & 993 I should have learnt by my mistakes as they are awful cars!

Odd that as an engineer of some experience all you say is they are “awful” and “terrible”. I’d have expected some qualified rather than throwaway comments.

[CS Garth]

Leonardo101 said:

SidewaysSi said:

I think the square root of fk all is probably the truth.

Haha more than 99% of people on here!
I’ve been an automotive design engineer for over 30 years working all over the world.
I spent 3 years working for Porsche in weissach on the 993 & 928 & I’ve owned a 964 & 993 I should have learnt by my mistakes as they are awful cars!

bks. You act like you are about 12

[aeropilot]

DPSFleet said:

Truly special and in a world of excess this car is real world usable, you can go shopping in it, tour through Europe and park it in a normal space. Silly prices , yes but a backdate is much cheaper and arguably as much fun......take a look at the one in Classic and Sportscar for around £75k

[SidewaysSi]

Only issue with these cars is rust which limits their real world usability in the UK. And the cost of repairing that rust...

[JMF894]

Richard A said:

Try this YT vid of a fast, well driven Nordschleife circuit in a fairly standard 3.0 SC . If you don't get it after that, well...

[JMF894]

I'd take this over one of the chubby modern ones any day too.

[offshoreeddy]

Sigh.

I can remember being offered a 911 2.7RS back in 1996. For £29,995. Dear lord, what a return that would have been haha. Never mind!

[ishay]

Escort3500 said:

Odd that as an engineer of some experience all you say is they are “awful” and “terrible”. I’d have expected some qualified rather than throwaway comments.

This.

There’s absolutely no way such a qualified person would simply hang out such simple statements and “it’s a beetle”.

Just a silly little troll

[JMF894]

ishay said:

Escort3500 said:

Odd that as an engineer of some experience all you say is they are “awful” and “terrible”. I’d have expected some qualified rather than throwaway comments.

This.

There’s absolutely no way such a qualified person would simply hang out such simple statements and “it’s a beetle”.

Just a silly little troll

The mistake was to reply in the first place.............................

[Niffty951]

I have to question the sanity of Porsche in offering this factory 2.7 RS up to people waiting to drive the new gt3 rs.

I've never driven either car here but conjuring my treasured memory of 5 minutes behind the wheel of a plexiglass lightened, 3.6 endowed, 1976 SC and imagining the comparative overweight, overtyred, numbness of anything else sporty I've ever driven. I can't imagine it being flattering to step out of it into a modern gt3.