Discussion
It's all down to taste and budget but;
I said it before and I'ii say it again, I could afford any car up to £120k ish and have driven pretty much all of the supercars in these brackets, but for me the 996 TT is the best every day supercar on the market, I think that I am an average driver and again the 996 TT is the easiet to drive quickly, the Cerbera still holds a place in my heart but the 996TT is just too good a car to make me change to anything else at this time (order on 2005 911 Turbo), I have driven a GT2 and Benno he either wasn't trying or your 456 is a special car because I have left them 355's,360's and 550's pretty easily?
I said it before and I'ii say it again, I could afford any car up to £120k ish and have driven pretty much all of the supercars in these brackets, but for me the 996 TT is the best every day supercar on the market, I think that I am an average driver and again the 996 TT is the easiet to drive quickly, the Cerbera still holds a place in my heart but the 996TT is just too good a car to make me change to anything else at this time (order on 2005 911 Turbo), I have driven a GT2 and Benno he either wasn't trying or your 456 is a special car because I have left them 355's,360's and 550's pretty easily?
Very interesting boys! (apart from the germany v england tangent.. 
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Why not organise another 'day at that airstrip',
..and let me know when it is - I could try to convince the beeb or CH5 to take the bits of film we shoot - i could borrow some posh gear from work (maybe not the helecopter, but if anyone has a microlite??!)..
>> Edited by pedestrian on Monday 8th July 20:09
) Why not organise another 'day at that airstrip',
..and let me know when it is - I could try to convince the beeb or CH5 to take the bits of film we shoot - i could borrow some posh gear from work (maybe not the helecopter, but if anyone has a microlite??!)..
>> Edited by pedestrian on Monday 8th July 20:09
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It's all down to taste and budget but;
I said it before and I'ii say it again, I could afford any car up to £120k ish and have driven pretty much all of the supercars in these brackets, but for me the 996 TT is the best every day supercar on the market, I think that I am an average driver and again the 996 TT is the easiet to drive quickly, the Cerbera still holds a place in my heart but the 996TT is just too good a car to make me change to anything else at this time (order on 2005 911 Turbo), I have driven a GT2 and Benno he either wasn't trying or your 456 is a special car because I have left them 355's,360's and 550's pretty easily?
nah he was trying and he works for pcgb so its not even like he was looking after his own car, point is that above a certain speed its aerodynamics and power....and with 442bhp there was pretty much sod all in it. rund a track he would have lost me mind...
Bennno
Jedi - hang on a mo' - let's just consider 3 things: first, like many on this site, I'm lucky enough to have decent ownership experience of both marques: like Lee77, I too love and am passionate about both but like him I too didn't go from a Cerby 4.5 (which had received a little attention from one of the factory's race engineers, nudge, nudge, wink, wink!) to a Porker Turbo because I thought the TVR was superior. Fact: for any given driver standard there is more exploitable performance in a Turbo than top range TVRs - I mean bloody hell, I drove 10,000 psycho miles in my Cerb in the UK and Europe and have racked up a few in the old Porker (which is far less 'soft' than the standard car anyway due to various power/susp mods)and yet the Turbo is infinately faster in any situation.
Second: this may change but I think race-based comparisons are currently pointless: Porsche has nothing to prove in racing terms as far as GT series contests are concerned - Le Mans domination for God knows how long completely vindicates the pedigree.
Third: my current car's condition is the fruit of the labour's of a motorsport company whose owner HAS actually won the Tuscan challenge! He now races in the Porsche Cup and whilst he loves the TVRs has little doubt as to the pecking order in ultimate terms.
For me, having spent extensive time with all post '93 TVRs (excluding the Tamora but) inclusing the Tuscan 4.0 I have to say that compared to the 993TT - and with the most sincere respect (and PLEASE don't take this out of context), power without control (RELTAIVELY SPEAKING!) is not all it could be. Jedi, PLEASE don't misinterpret where I'm coming from: if you're a Tuscan owner and I saw you I'd still turn into a 3 tear old, get out of my 993TT and blag (or beg!) a test drive and therein probably lies the magic ingredient that Porsche doesn't quite achieve so well: the TVR Tuscan is, IMHO, the only car this side of the Cerby (which I am finding very hard to live without, I gotta be honest!) and a Diablo to make me really suffer premature incontinence. Like I said, 'vive la difference!'
Second: this may change but I think race-based comparisons are currently pointless: Porsche has nothing to prove in racing terms as far as GT series contests are concerned - Le Mans domination for God knows how long completely vindicates the pedigree.
Third: my current car's condition is the fruit of the labour's of a motorsport company whose owner HAS actually won the Tuscan challenge! He now races in the Porsche Cup and whilst he loves the TVRs has little doubt as to the pecking order in ultimate terms.
For me, having spent extensive time with all post '93 TVRs (excluding the Tamora but) inclusing the Tuscan 4.0 I have to say that compared to the 993TT - and with the most sincere respect (and PLEASE don't take this out of context), power without control (RELTAIVELY SPEAKING!) is not all it could be. Jedi, PLEASE don't misinterpret where I'm coming from: if you're a Tuscan owner and I saw you I'd still turn into a 3 tear old, get out of my 993TT and blag (or beg!) a test drive and therein probably lies the magic ingredient that Porsche doesn't quite achieve so well: the TVR Tuscan is, IMHO, the only car this side of the Cerby (which I am finding very hard to live without, I gotta be honest!) and a Diablo to make me really suffer premature incontinence. Like I said, 'vive la difference!'
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