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][][] [] Fully understand the dilemma. I suspect you'd have more fun with a 997 and your 987 Spyder than you would with a duller daily driver and a 981 Spyder garage queen? That depends how many miles you do in your daily driver, where you do them and where you have to park it.
][] Tracy
[ORIGINAL: kitchens Would have not been Daro911.... he only shops at Waitrose[
][][] Think you're right too Tracy - it's a bit overcast here too for our leader!
I had PSE retrofitted to mine when I bought it from Swindon last Nov and it had black tips. It seems when the PSE is retrofitted, the exhaust is supplied without tips so they reuse the existing ones. Not sure if there's an option for black tips when spec'd from new though.ORIGINAL: daro911I knew an early taker of a Spyder May 2010 and first thing he did when he got the car was change the PSE tips for the standard black tips [
Haha Sorry, it has a good home though! [ORIGINAL: rob.kellockI did [
] About 8k miles in my daily and general to and from work with social visits. Parking at work is fine. Have to see if the 981 Spyder is going to be worth the outlay, i suspect not really in my position.
Hi. I'm loving the turbo. Happy to make it a keeper, which was the plan now that there'll be no more cars for me whilst all spare funds are going into my prime interest. However, I have a psychological barrier to overcome with the turbo. With the Spyder i'd happily push on in it with the power being manageable for a novice like me. Foot to the floor through the gears, early on the power out of corners. The performance of the turbo is much more than can be casually exerted without thinking, how much am I actually going to use. Pushing on through a couple of gears doesn't reach a crescendo in a near-as-dammit 200mph car. Also, getting on the power early coming out of a corner; how much to use. In the Spyder I would use all it had and you could make a sensible gear choice to modulate the thrust. With the turbo the gear won't make much difference unless you're going to choose so high a gear to take it way outside of it's range (sweet SPOT is an inappropriate term for the turbo's performance curve; it'll propel you over quite a range). But I am assured that it will understeer if I get over exuberant. But I think i'll have to take it to a track (with large run-offs) to push it further and get over that psychological barrier. It's not anything to do with the car. It handles and steers very directly and inspires confidence in me just like the Spyder did. It's just the brute force of the engine that I need to 'grow a pair' to be a match for it. I did once get snap oversteer in the Spyder ( and I wasn't even going that fast or really going for it) and I think that is etched on my brain even though it may be less likely to happen in the turbo given the ultra wide rear tyres and AWD to combat destabilisation.ORIGINAL: tyinskyYep. How you getting on with the Turbo? Must be incredible right now with the sunshine and lots of cold air. Hope all's well.ORIGINAL: flat6We've seen plenty of manual cars and PDK cars come up for sale. I won't enter the manual vs PDK debate[
£ FOR £ the GT3's are more than fast enough compared even to those £200k exotics [
]I bet most drivers need every possible aid offered to get within 30% of what a GT3 can really do on road or track but each to their own be it old school manual or new school paddles there is a strong market and plenty of room for both options these days [] Another one reflecting the current market? http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201503051442560/sort/pricedesc/page/1/make/porsche/keywords/spyder/model/boxster/quicksearch/true/postcode/cv81ad/usedcars/radius/1500/onesearchad/used%2Cnearlynew%2Cnew?logcode=p#
I feel like buying every manual that comes for sale and command the market. again this is how the CSL went up with 1 guy doing just that, same with Focus RS market.
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