RE: Porsche Carrera RS: Time for coffee

[anonymous-user]

MDMA . said:

Thomas Schmitz has 6 for sale at the moment

http://www.germansportscars.net/en/category/cars-f...

Blimey
POArghh so annoying. Put the damn price!

[MDMA .]

fblm said:

Blimey
POArghh so annoying. Put the damn price!

If you need to ask

[KrisP]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

It's the reason I've gone and bought a simple, bog standard Carrera 3.6 in (hopefully reliable) 997.2 form.

Still relatively small compared to modern cars, especially in narrow body style. Good enough brakes for road, simple hydraulic steering, passive damping that although a little high is fine for road driving and can be simply uprated if track and smooth roads is more the target and it came from the factory with no sunroof or rear wiper!

I don't even know what power it is? 340bhp maybe? Quick enough...

All it needs is a little lowering I feel, I'll reserve judgement on the ARBs until I've driven it more-perhaps some lighter alloys.

CAn't wait to pick it up to be honest...

I hope that you're going to have a readers ride thread on it?
I'm just starting down the path of looking for a 997.2, and choosing between the simplicity of a c2 v the S is not easy, let alone trying to get some solid review of them both

[tim milne]

seawise said:

Sensibleboy said:

Anybody remember the Autocar road test from 1991 or 1992? I think they described it as the most disappointing car of the year.

I do, it was utter nonsense. They panned the car on the basis that the ride was unyielding and that it didn’t have any toys. Also it was more expensive than a standard Carrera which they couldn’t understand. They completely missed the point of the car, as did several other motoring publications such as CAR. You could say Porsche were just ahead of the curve. Of course all the journos now rave about the car and it’s accepted as uber desirable. Often the way.

I think you have to remember that this was a car that answered a question nobody had bothered asking yet — a road car made for taking round racetracks. Though the Nurburgring was open at that time, the RS's forte, track days, were yet to becoming a thing.

It was also considerably (£20K?) more expensive than a regular C2 and missing pretty much all the basic equipment. Ironically, the depreciation curve was dramatic in the early years, where 5 - 6 year old cars were significantly cheaper than their C2 counterparts.

Perhaps what the press overlooked — aside from its original purpose — was that the stiff chassis they complained about so vehemently become wonderfully compliant at speed, as did the non-assisted steering (LHD only) aided by the seam-welded construction. Under the skin the differences between it and the cooking Carrera were profound, and undoubtedly worth the price-hike, but in typical German understated fashion, it didn't look the part.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

I thought the original remit was to get a modern 911 onto racetracks? The RS was simply to homologate it.

Even right up to the end of the '80s the 2.7RS (and it's evolutions) was still the 911 to beat, 15 years after they stopped building it.