grover
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I have mentioned in the past on this forum that I am a member of Ecurie25 as well as having a 997 turbo, really the best of everything. Having attended their weekend at the Ring taking a very special bunch of cars down to Germany I have been using some of the stock for fun weekends whilst the weather has been so good. So two ferrari 430 spyders and an amazing Lambo 560-4 in white with black wheels, later and driving around my local roads with local friends and what do I think?
All these supercars make the Turbo seems so refined and quiet and therefore a bit dull in some ways those being what all the car mags always say but..... and its a big big but... for me.the lambo is so much better than the 430, build quality, noise, looks, admiration etc etc and a car I would have in the garage. The 430 still looks good, everyone wants a look or a ride but it is jittery, really old design now, great sound, poor build quality, much worse inside that out actually and then when I was moving cars around last weekend and jumped in my turbo, I had forgotten what a taught, well built machine it is moving it just to take a snap of the two machines side by side, the looks are still refined, if it had a big bore exhaust on it I think it would be perfect in the noise department as well. My euphoria was then dampaned yesterday when I thought I would drive to work in it for a change (been using our little Fiat 500 instead recently) and it WOULDNT START!!! Flat battery from being neglected for a few weeks. Anyway its on charge now so should fire up tomorrow OK.
So having tried the DBS, Masser GTS, 430, Lambo, R8, the turbo still gets the thumbs up overall with the Lambo a distant dream for a bit longer and a car I just couldnt use everyday. The club get a 599 soon and the new 458 next spring and have a 560-4 cab arriving soon which will all be worth a try and with a nice white GT3 just in the fleet, that is my next one to go for to see whether I may defect from the turbo to the GT3 or RS next year.
Oh the choices............who would go for the new GT3RS here...its meant to sound really good?
All these supercars make the Turbo seems so refined and quiet and therefore a bit dull in some ways those being what all the car mags always say but..... and its a big big but... for me.the lambo is so much better than the 430, build quality, noise, looks, admiration etc etc and a car I would have in the garage. The 430 still looks good, everyone wants a look or a ride but it is jittery, really old design now, great sound, poor build quality, much worse inside that out actually and then when I was moving cars around last weekend and jumped in my turbo, I had forgotten what a taught, well built machine it is moving it just to take a snap of the two machines side by side, the looks are still refined, if it had a big bore exhaust on it I think it would be perfect in the noise department as well. My euphoria was then dampaned yesterday when I thought I would drive to work in it for a change (been using our little Fiat 500 instead recently) and it WOULDNT START!!! Flat battery from being neglected for a few weeks. Anyway its on charge now so should fire up tomorrow OK.
So having tried the DBS, Masser GTS, 430, Lambo, R8, the turbo still gets the thumbs up overall with the Lambo a distant dream for a bit longer and a car I just couldnt use everyday. The club get a 599 soon and the new 458 next spring and have a 560-4 cab arriving soon which will all be worth a try and with a nice white GT3 just in the fleet, that is my next one to go for to see whether I may defect from the turbo to the GT3 or RS next year.
Oh the choices............who would go for the new GT3RS here...its meant to sound really good?
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