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[TISPKJ]

News from a friend

i,ve just had some informations about the 997 turbo. The car will be at Geneva with the new GT3. Turbo will have 480hp with variable geometrie turbos, annonced for 3.7sec for 0 to 60mph!!!(better than Carrera GT). The price should be about 138000euros. The new GT3 will have 415 hp for 117000 euros.

 

[riverproaudio]

2004 Porsche Turbo X50 3.7

http://www.albeedigital.com/supercoupe/articles/0-60times.html

 

[Guest]

One of the car magazines in the UK got 3.8s 0-60mph and 8.6 0-100mph in a 996 X50.
I can't remember which magazine though (maybe Autocar).

Porsche never gave figures for the X50 (just emissions and fuel consumption info).

The bar is set pretty high.

 

[riverproaudio]

I just read in the latest issue of GT Purely Porsche the 997 TT is 3.6 0-60 top speed 192mph

 

[Guest]

Car magazine claims there will be no GT2, which seems sensible since there is no reason to do one.
It claims, 3.9 0-60 for the manual and 3.8 for the tiptronic (as mentioned by someone else). I don't know whether to believe that though. Top speed is 194.
They suggest an S version will eventually appear with about 510bhp (which I guess will be the same as the X50 option if they follow the (996 scheme).
It also says the ceramic brakes will remain a £5.5K option.

None of the magazines can agree, so that means they are all guesstimating.
Wait a few more weeks and we'll know.

 

[Michael Downing]

ORIGINAL: Stuart Martin
Car magazine claims there will be no GT2, which seems sensible since there is no reason to do one.

There was no reason to climb Everest, but we went ahead and did it anyway.

Honestly. That's no way to run a sports car company. You'll be telling me Porsche make a profit, next. []

If there's no 997 GT2, what am I meant to dream of?

 

[TISPKJ]

Guys, these are the figures and costs given out to the european dealerships last week, as normal our OPC will get them in a couple of months time once Porsche AG have decided how much "additional" profit they wish to take from the UK market

 

[Guest]

The 993 GT2 was made to go racing, which it did very successfull.
However, air restrictors made it uncompetitive in the end. Another case of Porsche being too good for the opposition.
With the 996, the GT2 was made to keep their options open, but it has not been developed and is not seriously considered for racing.
On the 997, there is no need to make it. It's reason for existance has gone.

If they make one, then you really will be complaining, since it will only be a marketing excercise.

It would be more sensible to offer a 997TT CS, although I doubt they will sell many.

 

[Michael Downing]

ORIGINAL: Stuart Martin
If they make one, then you really will be complaining, since it will only be a marketing excercise.

Hmm, yes well I do moan a bit. But I'm quite nice in person, honest!

I don't think it would be just a marketing exercise (especially if it lost money!). There is a kind of logic - the (mainly) road models have the normally aspirated Carrera and the turbo, whereas the track-focussed models have the normally aspirated GT3 and the GT2. There is a kind of logic.

Surely a "marketing exercise" is a car that more expensive that the standard model but just has purely cosmetic stuff added to make it look like a higher model?

Yes, I know, I drive a 996 C4S.... but that is completely different, for reasons I might explain another day .... wider track ... uprated brakes .... mutter mutter []