jonttt
Monaco
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The sun was out for a few hours yesturday and so the boxster was out with the roof down and no requirement for a wooly hat this time 8)
We had arranged to meet some friends for a late lunch so I took the opportunity to set off early in the boxster and for SWMBO and little SWMBO to follow in the family pram.
It turned Sport Plus on
OMG, how can you possibly buy a PDK and NOT have Sports Chrono :nooo:
It totally transforms the character of the car from a "fast car" to a full on road going sports car. What an adventure I had on familiar back roads that where dry. The brutal yet composed manner of the power delivery, the weighting of the steering (yes its electronic without the direct feel of the wheels through the rack but in this package that just makes the car feel more assured not less), I had the back end dancing to my tune in no time, much quicker than it would normally take me to get the feel of a car. I found myself breaker later with confidence on familiar roads with an alarming degree of certainty within 30 minutes of pushing the car to find its limits.
PASM is just sublime, the balance of comfort and composure when called on its just astonishing. I would love to try one with the sports suspension and it really leaves me wondering what PTV would bring to the party, if it can add to the driving experience then :worship:
Did I mention the noise :hand:
No you can't really drive in Sport Plus in traffic, the car just holds onto the gears for too long, the noise is too much with every slight lift of the throttle resulting in a crescendo of overrun that is just absurd ........ its so much fun but ultimately results in it being switched to "just" sport mode when the car settles markedly, the noise becomes just an addictive rumble.
The icing on the cake was after lunch, my friend happens to be a petrol head of the old school, he was into cars long before he could afford to pay for his dreams but has now is a well establish Ferrari fan. His current toy is a gorgeous 488 scuderia. He has never done "porsche" but he could not believe how gorgeous look of the GTS. His first words in the car park where "it looks like a little ferrari". Now that may not be a compliment to Porsche die hards but the fact was it sparked his interest. We where going back to theirs for coffee and asked if he could sit in, I threw him the keys and said you may as well drive. There was no messing around, he started it up and I put it in Sports Plus, he just looked at me and said "wow". We both laughed.
It had started raining by this point so no roof down but he knows his way around a track and is no miss daisy on the road, the couple of miles back to his house where enough for him to turn the car off and just sit there looking over the interior, "very very nice" was enough for me to hear.
Yesturday just confirmed that the car is everything I want it to be.
We had arranged to meet some friends for a late lunch so I took the opportunity to set off early in the boxster and for SWMBO and little SWMBO to follow in the family pram.
It turned Sport Plus on
OMG, how can you possibly buy a PDK and NOT have Sports Chrono :nooo:
It totally transforms the character of the car from a "fast car" to a full on road going sports car. What an adventure I had on familiar back roads that where dry. The brutal yet composed manner of the power delivery, the weighting of the steering (yes its electronic without the direct feel of the wheels through the rack but in this package that just makes the car feel more assured not less), I had the back end dancing to my tune in no time, much quicker than it would normally take me to get the feel of a car. I found myself breaker later with confidence on familiar roads with an alarming degree of certainty within 30 minutes of pushing the car to find its limits.
PASM is just sublime, the balance of comfort and composure when called on its just astonishing. I would love to try one with the sports suspension and it really leaves me wondering what PTV would bring to the party, if it can add to the driving experience then :worship:
Did I mention the noise :hand:
No you can't really drive in Sport Plus in traffic, the car just holds onto the gears for too long, the noise is too much with every slight lift of the throttle resulting in a crescendo of overrun that is just absurd ........ its so much fun but ultimately results in it being switched to "just" sport mode when the car settles markedly, the noise becomes just an addictive rumble.
The icing on the cake was after lunch, my friend happens to be a petrol head of the old school, he was into cars long before he could afford to pay for his dreams but has now is a well establish Ferrari fan. His current toy is a gorgeous 488 scuderia. He has never done "porsche" but he could not believe how gorgeous look of the GTS. His first words in the car park where "it looks like a little ferrari". Now that may not be a compliment to Porsche die hards but the fact was it sparked his interest. We where going back to theirs for coffee and asked if he could sit in, I threw him the keys and said you may as well drive. There was no messing around, he started it up and I put it in Sports Plus, he just looked at me and said "wow". We both laughed.
It had started raining by this point so no roof down but he knows his way around a track and is no miss daisy on the road, the couple of miles back to his house where enough for him to turn the car off and just sit there looking over the interior, "very very nice" was enough for me to hear.
Yesturday just confirmed that the car is everything I want it to be.