RE: Porsche 718 Spyder RS breaks cover

RE: Porsche 718 Spyder RS breaks cover

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Pan Pan Pan

9,777 posts

110 months

Sunday 15th May 2022
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ducmac said:
Don’t really care that you can’t get one as they’re just for flippers, collectors, and people who want them to pose with. Can’t believe many will every be driven in anger. As well as that, it’s pig ugly!!

Give me a Lotus over the current Porsches any day of the week.
I used to think that, but I got fed up with all the chicken wire, and resin/glue smells!
As for looks, that is `always' going to be entirely subjective, so not much point in going there.

Gabor77

2 posts

28 months

Sunday 15th May 2022
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It seems the car has a new roof. It may be automatic or at least don't have to remove the two side "blades"

fortfive

125 posts

58 months

Sunday 15th May 2022
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Just yet more Porsche unobtainium, getting very tedious.

sege

552 posts

221 months

Monday 16th May 2022
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John Henry said:
I’d like to see PH, as the platform of the people, refuse to provide any coverage of cars like this. It’s all very well covering exotica and the stuff of dreams. Cars like this are still realistically attainable, or at least there should be.

It’s simply not on that you can’t place an order for one of these cars without evidence of a previous relationship with your Porsche dealer. There is no democracy to it.

I’d prefer a system where they open the order book on a given date and time and people line up to place an order, like with other latest craze purchases. One order per customer. At least that places people on a level playing field.

As it stands, who cares what it’s like? You won’t be allowed to buy one. Porsche should be looking hard at the way their dealers behave around this issue. It’s been like this for too long.
I totally agree!
Except that PH isn't a platform of the people, it's a website that sells advertising to make money and needs people to click on things in order to do so. And this clicky thing is already 4 pages long so it's a success.

I would actually like to see PH not cover anything that I can't obtain, which for me means anything that I cannot afford, which currently, is actually everything, as I'm skint. So it would just be an unused domain. But this would be more fair I think?

On the other hand, RS Porsches are obtainable by a lucky few, and they might want to read about them? Or least least make the rest of us envious about not having one? That also seems fair.

I think also, that your queueing up idea could have issues. Like, if someone pushes in in front of someone else in the queue?

It's a toughie! I don't know, maybe just leave it as it is after all?

H2ONOCK

1 posts

111 months

Tuesday 17th May 2022
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Wow. The car looks absolutely battered in these pictures though frown

stickshift

28 posts

118 months

Thursday 19th May 2022
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Pan Pan Pan said:

The hard top version of any car, always handles better than the soft top, so I would go with the Cayman rather than the Boxster / Spyder versions. The only downside is not being able to hear the engine, as well as in the soft top.
Don't worry because you won't be hearing either of them even if you have the cash to buy one and nor will 99.99% of the rest of us.

ChrisW.

6,211 posts

254 months

Friday 20th May 2022
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Not necessarily, the 987 Spyder was faster around the track than it's Cayman R sibling ... I don't feel any scuttle shake in my 987 Spyder and at local road speeds the dampers are plenty firm enough ...

But I agree that the conventional wisdom is that a roof adds to shell strength ...

Pan Pan Pan

9,777 posts

110 months

Sunday 22nd May 2022
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stickshift said:
Pan Pan Pan said:

The hard top version of any car, always handles better than the soft top, so I would go with the Cayman rather than the Boxster / Spyder versions. The only downside is not being able to hear the engine, as well as in the soft top.
Don't worry because you won't be hearing either of them even if you have the cash to buy one and nor will 99.99% of the rest of us.
I am not sure what the position is, in terms of waiting times for new cars. But for what is still essentially a mass producer of cars (Albeit high end ones) to have models that people (even rich ones) cannot get, or are subject to having long waiting times, must be a good position for the manufacturer/s to be in.