£50k daily driver

[Kananga]

Absolutely stunning.

I’m a huge Porsche fan, but I think that will be incredible to drive. Have you test driven it ?

[fridaypassion]

Nope. I have driven an early NA Evora which was very good. The only issue for me with the early cars was the erganomics were a bit iffy. My leg knocked against the side of the chassis but they have changed all of the peddle box on the newer cars. I've had a sit in one but I'm putting my faith in those boffins down at Hethel. If the ride is as good with a 60% power increase over those early cars I'll be happy.

The interior and exterior fit and finish is very very good. 90% of where Porsche are for sure. The early Evoras were reasonable but had a hint of TVR about the interior. The standard of the new ones is very good.

[Kananga]

Interesting! You’re now tempting me...

Out of interest, when did the improvements start ? Need to filter my searching of classified appropriately!

[fridaypassion]

The first cars were 2009 276 BHP NA and later a 350BHP Supercharged version. Both very good cars and by and large they are proving to be pretty reliable. Early cars had gearbox issues with a lot having recons around 30k miles.

2015 the 400 comes out with apparently 70% of all the components on the car revised. Significant improvements in the interior and a new front clams and redesigned rear. This is when they introduced LSD to the manual cars too (for some reason you cant have one in an auto which is a real shame).

They are a very compelling alternative to a Porsche. Dealers are always keen to shift stock so chunky discounts and 50% 2 years interest free finance seals the deal.

[Porsche911R]

fridaypassion said:

The first cars were 2009 276 BHP NA and later a 350BHP Supercharged version. Both very good cars and by and large they are proving to be pretty reliable. Early cars had gearbox issues with a lot having recons around 30k miles.

2015 the 400 comes out with apparently 70% of all the components on the car revised. Significant improvements in the interior and a new front clams and redesigned rear. This is when they introduced LSD to the manual cars too (for some reason you cant have one in an auto which is a real shame).

They are a very compelling alternative to a Porsche. Dealers are always keen to shift stock so chunky discounts and 50% 2 years interest free finance seals the deal.

£50k you say :-) nice car as long as it's the manual

[fridaypassion]

40 actually and another 40 to go.

Would you believe it is a manual! The auto drops the LSD and even though I do like an auto I cant abide cars that don't have an LSD....

[Porsche911R]

fridaypassion said:

40 actually and another 40 to go.

Would you believe it is a manual! The auto drops the LSD and even though I do like an auto I cant abide cars that don't have an LSD....

ouch £80k is not good value over a GT4 sorry to say although the new one looks ok the GT410 Sport. if it were £30k cheaper :-)

[Mario149]

I love the idea of an Evora 410, esp the new gearbox. But as a proposition new I struggle with it. A used one in a couple of years though...

In incidentally, price aside, this is one of the advantages of buying a used non-Porsche: within reason the options on Lotuses, BMWs etc are fairly limited (compared to Porsche anyway), so you can normally find something that, as near as makes no difference, is the spec you would have ordered. With Porsche, I've lost count of the number of times I've seen a car with off-putting options on it.

Marketing genius on Porsche's part of course as it makes you more likely to order a new one to your spec!

[fridaypassion]

Porsche911R said:

ouch £80k is not good value over a GT4 sorry to say although the new one looks ok the GT410 Sport. if it were £30k cheaper :-)

Maybe not I spent a lot of time agonising over it trust me but when I get a GT car it has to be a GT3. I spent a long time looking at the gt4 against the Evora and although not a brilliant financial decision I just went with the one that I think will be the better steer. None of my personal cars are picked for anything other than how good they are to drive perhaps with the exception of the aircooled 911 as that is just art with an engine. Everything else we have has happened to be a decent financial choice but I just went with the heart on the Evora. I think it's a fantastic looking car with great spec and brand new under 3 years warranty I don't think it has any peers really. Decent spec 991 S maybe but still over 100k and subject to similar depreciation.

Evora over 991 GT3 allows us to hang onto the 911 it would have had to go to fund the gt3.

[WindyM]

996GT2 said:

Shaoxter said:

BubblesNW said:

I suspect the steering wheel will have the buttons rather than the more desirable paddles. Not the end of the world for some but is a deal breaker for others.

Easy retrofit for £800, hardly a deal breaker.

Price is OK, but I think you'd regret not getting an S for a few k more. You get a lot more stuff as standard, eg PASM which isn't present on this one.

Does the paddle steering wheel retrofit onto early gen 2s? I bought a paddle wheel for my 987 Spyder, when I sold the car I took that wheel off and sold it to an owner of a gen 2 997, I seem to remember him saying that the paddles work but the lights on the new wheel aren't compatible with 2008/9 cars.

Are there two paddle wheel versions? Mine was retrofitted to a Nov 2008 early PDK and there are no lights on the wheel.