Are Spyders Becoming Extinct At OPCs!
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Thanks, I'll have another go soon.ORIGINAL: flat6The URL (web address) you're using is not for the image but for web page within which the image is being displayed. The image, typically a jpeg type file will be on a web address of the type [link=http://www.blahblah.com/blah-di-blah.jpg]http://www.blahblah.com/blah-di-blah.jpg[/link] If you right click on the image in flickr you get some choices to view the pic at different sizes. Choose one. Then in the next page showing the image at that size, right click on the image again. You'll get some choices that may include 'displaying the image in a new tab' (which will show the image's web address), or to 'copy image URL (which is the image's web address) or 'properties' which should bring up the image URL. Or you may not, depending on your browser i.e. whether you are using Google Chrome or internet explorer etc. It is a bit of a faff but once you get it sussed you'll be OK. Some of the other picture sharing sites may be easier but i've not used those.ORIGINAL: DarrellWilsonOK, so that didn't work. Any suggestions?ORIGINAL: DarrellWilson First attempt at uploading an image of my car, hope it works.
MillerIanF
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This is very interesting and very sad, in effect the board of porsche were gambling and "lost the shirt of their back". It is a complicated business and I can only draw my conclusions from what has been said in the press, which may be right or wrong. Unfortunately I wonder if the ordinary board members fully understood what Wendelin Wiedeking was up to. It would be interesting to know if Dr Wolfgang Porsche and others actually fully understood the implications of what they were doing, did greed prevail. Did they fully understand how the options worked and just how exposed they would be if the market went the wrong way? Did they understand they may not have been transparent with information regarding the options? - The Hedge Fund managers may well have some success, Wiedeking is already in trouble with the authorities, I think. In any event Porsche are now owned by a car group that believes in using the same engines, chassis and bits and pieces in each of it's companies products, it makes me wonder about the future.
Why not make one different? [ORIGINAL: daro911 New Page New Week New Pic
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Rocket Man
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Perhaps the Spyder could be one of the last true Porsche classics
I note you said *one* of the last true Porsches. I guess the Cayman R will be the other then? [
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kitchens
PCGB Member
Wow !! been away down in Englandshire for the weekend at my sons in Hampshire and it will take me days to catch up on all that has been happening .[] Went to Porsche Reading on Sunday for a look round and have to say the service was poor was in the dealership for 15 mins and not one person approached us .Did notice that there was not one manual car in the showroom all where PDK and all had turbo style wheels not too my liking those wheels sorry, Has anyone experienced being timed out on the forum it has happened to me twice when making a post went for my tea and came back to complete it and had to sign in again password etc .[:'(]
] Went to Porsche Reading on Sunday for a look round and have to say the service was poor was in the dealership for 15 mins and not one person approached us .Did notice that there was not one manual car in the showroom all where PDK and all had turbo style wheels not too my liking those wheels sorry, Has anyone experienced being timed out on the forum it has happened to me twice when making a post went for my tea and came back to complete it and had to sign in again password etc .[:'(]
You need to put more money in the meter [ORIGINAL: kitchens Wow !! been away down in Englandshire for the weekend at my sons in Hampshire and it will take me days to catch up on all that has been happening .[
] You go and visit your son and don't log on shows what a good old school family man you are. Impressed []
From Autocar today [&o] http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/quick-news-merc-f1-car-good-looking-synthetic-audi-fuels A group of American hedge funds are attempting to sue Porsche for £1.5 billion in damages following the company's attempted buyout of Volkswagen. It is claimed that Porsche manipulated the stock market and that it lied about its intentions to buy VW, causing the funds' significant losses as they made trades on VW shares. The lawsuit originally began in 2010, with the damages set at a lower £620 million. Porsche has said that the claims are "unfounded".
MillerIanF
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Yes you could be right not only because of this but also because it seems we are at a point where cars in general are changing. Companies are increasingly looking to electronics to advance fuel economy, road safety through all sorts of electronics including road holding PDK etc. I don't doubt this will make cars more efficient you only have to look at what happened in F1 they banned the computerised suspension, when it first appeared, because no one could keep up with the most advanced car, Williams I think at the time. Many of us look back at the old cars with fondness, the 356 is an example, we want to be fully involved with the car this seems to me why the Spyder will always be of interest. May be I am getting old but even the stop start technology, in the latest generation of cars, interferes with my driving experience, particularly as I live in the country.
This one went super quick despite the mileage .... Must be the colour that sold it [] http://www.911virgin.com/porscheforsale/566/987Gen2BoxsterSpyder/
Boxster Spyder 3.4 (DFI engine) Generation 2. 6 speed manual transmission. Finished in Guards Red with Black leather carbon backed lightweight bucket seats, black carpets and black fabric hood. First registered 14/04/2010. Selling on behalf of its current owner with the balance of an extended Porsche warranty through until 19/04/2014. The warranty is fully transferable to the next custodian and offers massive peace of mind. 19" Spyder alloys in silver with colour crested wheel centres, PSE (Porsche Switchable Sports Exhaust), Carbon Backed light-weight bucket seats, short shift gear selection, alcantara steering wheel, gearknob and handbrake, on-board computer CDR-30 in dash CD player/tuner, red seat belts, red centre tunnel and dashboard detailing, black instrument dials, Porsche Sound Package plus, ABS, power steering, remote central locking, PSM (Porsche Stability Management), electric windows/mirrors and Thatcham Category 1 alarm/immobiliser. Porsche Main Agent service history from new. Last service 09/09/2013 at a mileage of 36,754. Next service due 37,500 recorded miles.
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I see another one has just gone up for sale on Pistonheads - should we have a sweepstake on how long it takes to sell [] On a seperate note, is anyone else going to the Donington Historic on Sunday 4th May (as arranged / discussed on the Region 8 forum)?
] On a seperate note, is anyone else going to the Donington Historic on Sunday 4th May (as arranged / discussed on the Region 8 forum)?
the Angus car, really bad advert, but a price to get people's attention.ORIGINAL: Steve Brown I see another one has just gone up for sale on Pistonheads - should we have a sweepstake on how long it takes to sell [
Seen worse ads but it wouldn't be hard to make it so much better. Did you see the photo of the car in the garage - must be one of the best educated Spyders out there with all those books in front of it to read!
Nearly as light as you can get them[] Seems like not a penny back for those Ceramics £37990 for a 12k mile example is priced to sell real quick I would say http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/porsche/boxster-987-05-12/porsche-boxster-987-gen-ii-spyder-low-mileage-ceramic-brakes--full-porsche-service-history--2010/2043007
] Seems like not a penny back for those Ceramics £37990 for a 12k mile example is priced to sell real quick I would say http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/porsche/boxster-987-05-12/porsche-boxster-987-gen-ii-spyder-low-mileage-ceramic-brakes--full-porsche-service-history--2010/2043007
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