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Posted on Rennlist a few months back, it is indeed a belter (just don't let KayC know we're looking at it !)
My dream Porsche appeared in Car magazine back in 1981 (I'm 43), a black 930 3.3 Turbo that I always remember didn't have a passenger side door mirror !! (it was an optional extra ?!) I was totally smitten by the car and read the article hundreds of times thereafter.
In the end it took me two decades to get my first Porsche (and it wasn't a 930 Turbo but a 964 RS)
My dream Porsche appeared in Car magazine back in 1981 (I'm 43), a black 930 3.3 Turbo that I always remember didn't have a passenger side door mirror !! (it was an optional extra ?!) I was totally smitten by the car and read the article hundreds of times thereafter.
In the end it took me two decades to get my first Porsche (and it wasn't a 930 Turbo but a 964 RS)
Edited by slippydiff on Thursday 11th January 21:21
Not so sure I like the short wheel base U.S. Model though..I am glad my 997 doesnt look like that!!
Another cracking advert on YOU TUBE with a red and yellow 997 racing along, flames and dancing babes etc. I would post it but I dont know how...muppet!
Never seen a U.K. advert though...guess us Brits just buy regardless.
Another cracking advert on YOU TUBE with a red and yellow 997 racing along, flames and dancing babes etc. I would post it but I dont know how...muppet!
Never seen a U.K. advert though...guess us Brits just buy regardless.
ers. even when you have one their ads leave you wanting more! 
so true!Excellent advert. I remember going in to the Porsche centre in Cardiff (merlin Porsche back then I think) before I started uni, sat in a 993 and looked around the all new 996 - the sales guy let me have one of the 996 sales books (still got it). I'd always wanted a 911, I promised myself a 996 before I was 30, bought my first one at 28, crashed it at 28.5 
I'm contemplating selling my new 996 due to having a baby on the way, watching this advert has really made this decision much more difficult.
I'm contemplating selling my new 996 due to having a baby on the way, watching this advert has really made this decision much more difficult.
996C2 said:
Excellent advert. I remember going in to the Porsche centre in Cardiff (merlin Porsche back then I think) before I started uni, sat in a 993 and looked around the all new 996 - the sales guy let me have one of the 996 sales books (still got it). I'd always wanted a 911, I promised myself a 996 before I was 30, bought my first one at 28, crashed it at 28.5
I'm contemplating selling my new 996 due to having a baby on the way, watching this advert has really made this decision much more difficult.
I'm contemplating selling my new 996 due to having a baby on the way, watching this advert has really made this decision much more difficult.
Why do you think I posted it.
cool advert.
when i was doing one of my first test drives in a 996tt middle of last year i stopped at a junction to turn left. turning into the road i was on was a small coach full of kids approx 7yr - 10ys old. most of the offside kids were looking at the porsche etc. at that moment i wondered if i had planted any "i want a porsche when i go up" seeds in their heads.
people say that porsche's don't attract attention in the same way as a ferrari etc and it's true to a degree but it attracts a different kind of attention imo.
when i was doing one of my first test drives in a 996tt middle of last year i stopped at a junction to turn left. turning into the road i was on was a small coach full of kids approx 7yr - 10ys old. most of the offside kids were looking at the porsche etc. at that moment i wondered if i had planted any "i want a porsche when i go up" seeds in their heads.
people say that porsche's don't attract attention in the same way as a ferrari etc and it's true to a degree but it attracts a different kind of attention imo.
Loved this video so much, I googled my way to this one:
[url]www.lad.lv/~martini/porsche/Videos/TurboHistory.asf[/url]
....took a while to load into media player for me, but well worth it
[url]www.lad.lv/~martini/porsche/Videos/TurboHistory.asf[/url]
....took a while to load into media player for me, but well worth it
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