If you had 35-40k to spend on a car? Porsche or Ferrari?

[RWD cossie wil]

Just looking at a few options at the moment, but if you could get together 35-40k to spend on a car, what would you have out of:

35K Bracket:
1) Porsche 996 turbo
2) Ferrari 355

40kish Bracket:
1) Porsche 996 GT2
2) Ferrari 360

The other wild card is an Ultima GTR?

If I got a 996 Turbo I wouldn't have to have a daily driver either, but all of the others would have to be a second car I recon?

[Atomic Gibbon]

use daily: pork.
Use at weekends: the red one =)

[andye30m3]

it would have to be a 996 GT3

[soad]

Would have to be a porker for me, I'm afraid. But in the 993 guise. Perhaps a turbo, if budget allows it.

[magnus911]

Ferrari 360. Clearly.

[chriis]

Heart - Ferrari 360

Head - Porsche

Head would win i think

[007 VXR]

360

[RWD cossie wil]

If it was a Porsche, it would HAVE to have turbos or I wouldn't be interested, sorry! Hence the Turbo/GT2 choice?

[ZOLLAR]

Out of Porsche and ferrari?, I'd have this>

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/1738713.htm

However 360 would be tempting.

[paddyhasneeds]

What sort of usage/mileage and how much can you afford to spend to run it?

[RWD cossie wil]

paddyhasneeds said:

What sort of usage/mileage and how much can you afford to spend to run it?

A turbo I would run every day without worry, I don't do a vast amount of miles, an 80 mile commute at the start and end of the week, and where ever I fancy going in the meantime, to the mrs etc. So won't be putting mega milage on anything, but the GT2 and ferraris I would prob have a shed just to keep the miles/ daily damage/winter off a more valuble car.

Running costs would get whatever they need, and all cars would HAVE to be manual, not F1, although I suspect a 911 would be a bit kinder on the pocket over the year than a Ferrari.

[paddyhasneeds]

My own opinion (admittedly not worth much) is that between the 355 and the 360 the 355 just looks totally dated.

I always assumed in mechanical terms that a GT2 was entirely usable, any impracticality was due to lack of refinement or whatever word you want to use as it's basically a road legal track car?

I was just browsing through the Pistonheads Classifieds and I'm staggered how little money you can get a Maserati 4200 for. It's not a Porsche or a Ferrari but what a lot of car for the money.

[unpc]

Niether. Get the Ultima.

[West4x4]

355 last Ferrari before they went chavvy.

[GJOB]

West4x4 said:

355 last Ferrari before they went chavvy.

[OllieC]

unpc said:

Niether. Get the Ultima.

this. by a long way

[Thejimreaper]

Porsche every time.

[BlueEyedBoy]

993 turbo or 997.2 carrera 2S. I still cannot get on with those headlights and the stretched look of the 996. GT2 could swing it thoug

[obscene]

Doesn't get better than a 355 IMO

[Alex CSL]

Probably a Porsche 996 turbo - easy to live with and probably the fastest in the real world with bumps and uneven road surfaces.

Edited by Alex CSL on Thursday 10th June 00:09