Still unfortunately no sun to show the colour as it looks in the flesh but when the light reflects off it you get a full spectrum of colours from purples, blues, yellows it really is just like a pearl. Looks lovely but attracts A LOT of attention, I don't think there's been one person in a car I've passed or on the footpath who hasn't stared at it and all the traffic coming the other way I notice all eyes are on me! Driving it around the town in which I live was like driving a Ferrari in Italy, people stop walking to look, give you thumbs up, ask you to rev it or put your foot down so they can hear it. Stop you in petrol stations to talk about it.. At first it was great but now I'm not so sure I like it too much, I drive quickly! Better to go un-noticed when people live near you are going to see it often!
p.s. I wrote a better review here for those that are interested:-
Right so I'm back now and what are my first impressions of owning a cerb. Well firstly although I've been popping blood vessels at every sound I hear and sniffing every smell with panic expecting the car to splutter and spit its guts onto the road at any moment I have done coming up for 500 miles now since I picked it up yesterday afternoon and it hasn't put a foot wrong! I've actually been amazed at how practical its been?! It isn't ridiculous on fuel (used about £25 to do 200miles on a 'pretty fast' run) its comfortable, has all the creature comforts you need, surprisingly easy to drive.. fabulous handling (a real shock as its not what I was expecting!) and whilst its very hard to judge how quick it is compared to my old 944 T (because its power delivery is so different) I have now happily seen the error of my ways.
When I originally looked at them I naturally assumed that being a V8 it would be fastest from about 2000-5000rpm so I was changing at 5000 thinking that I was using pretty much all of the rev range and giving it all it had got which wasn't as much as I expected! As it turns out 5000rpm is exactly the point at which it stops being an 'adequately swift' car, comes on cam, changes note completely and goes nuts! I love it. It reminds me exactly of some of the tuned V8's you see being used in GT racer (of which I'm a huge fan) it has that hard, sharp, aggressive note of a well tuned engine determined out accelerate whatever you may be passing at the time where 2000-5000 just wasn't quite enough! In the low gears the change is enough to break traction exactly as it passes 5000revs every time even if it seemed to have plenty of traction up to that point. It's really good fun and the noise is just epic it roars an thumps then as you let off the throttle you get the odd pop and bang until you get a whole fireworks display of splutters, rumbles and bangs as it comes to a head of noise with that final volley as it gets back down past 3500rpm and then you change down into the next gear to hear it again. Excellent, excellent fun.
To sum it up its a totally different ball game to owning a normal sports car but like keeping a timely classic it gives you so much more of an experience and if you think of it in terms of a car you could turn up at a GT racer style classic event 'out of the box' with no need for modification and still be competative you start to apreciate that they actually did a damn fine job down at Blackpool. Top respect to you fellows!
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