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Lava GT3

Hey Cheib

Lava GT3 works for me :thumb:
Lava trailer...check
Lava tractor with front scoop....Legend

You need a tow hook on the GT3 to rock up to the garden centre with the colour coded trailer!

Ultimate toys with full fat accessories :thumbs:
 
Cheib said:
My guess is 30 to 40% of of 991.2 GT3's will be Manual in the UK...it wasn't available as an option for the first three or four months of production and take up from what I have seen is maybe 50% since then but certainly there are more PDK's that are being flipped/on the used market than Manual cars.

Guesstimate is that somewhere in the region of 300 to 350 cars

100 PDK Comfort
100 PDK CS
50 Manual Comfort
50 Manual CS
50 Touring


That would be very nice if those figures are about right, it would seem a large percentage of manual CS owners are active on Pistonheads forum which does give a bit of a distorted view on the overall numbers as reading some of those threads would make you think most of them are manual!
 
Well here is Preuninger's take on the number of manuals specified on purchase(courtesy of Autoguide.com):

Preuninger says he has bets with his colleagues that the take rate for the manual GT3 will be about 30 percent. He also hinted that lap times haven't fallen off the radar completely completely for Porsche.

I don't suppose anyone is keeping an accurate score but it is certainly interesting.

Long live the manual.

Pip
 
m119cars said:
Cheib said:
My guess is 30 to 40% of of 991.2 GT3's will be Manual in the UK...it wasn't available as an option for the first three or four months of production and take up from what I have seen is maybe 50% since then but certainly there are more PDK's that are being flipped/on the used market than Manual cars.

Guesstimate is that somewhere in the region of 300 to 350 cars

100 PDK Comfort
100 PDK CS
50 Manual Comfort
50 Manual CS
50 Touring


That would be very nice if those figures are about right, it would seem a large percentage of manual CS owners are active on Pistonheads forum which does give a bit of a distorted view on the overall numbers as reading some of those threads would make you think most of them are manual!

It's obviously a "fag packet" calculation as nobody knows those numbers apart from a few people in Porsche GB and possibly some DP's etc.

My guess on the number of Touring's is based on all OPC's delivering at least one car (my OPC had one customer who ordered a Touring) with some maybe having deliver 2 or 3. I know of one OPC that delivered 3. There are something like 35 OPC's in the UK.

I'm surprised the manual box wasn't more popular to be honest given the angst when the 991.1 GT3 was launched as PDK only but it just shows how people's opinions change.

My personal theory is that one of the reason's there are so many more PDK cars on the market at the moment is because they have been sold back to secure GT3 RS slots and those people being favoured customers of OPC will have got early cars which had to be PDK.

If you've got a manual car I think you're just much less likely so soon to want to sell it as there's nothing else to compare with it on the market with a manual box. What I don't understnad is if you bought the car to flip it which some people clearly did why they would spec it like they have....some truly odd and dare I say dreadful specs around.

I know how lucky I am to have got my hands on this car....something which to be honest I still can't quite believe. The way I found out the allocation is actually quite funny, we were picking up my wife's Boxster in Novemeber...the SE gave my wife some Jo Malone stuff as a handover present and looked at me and said "I have something for you too". Gave me a small box in gift wrap...I opened it to find a model GT3 and he told me I had a 2018 build slot. I went bright red apparently!
 
Cheib said:
I know how lucky I am to have got my hands on this car....something which to be honest I still can't quite believe. The way I found out the allocation is actually quite funny, we were picking up my wife's Boxster in Novemeber...the SE gave my wife some Jo Malone stuff as a handover present and looked at me and said "I have something for you too". Gave me a small box in gift wrap...I opened it to find a model GT3 and he told me I had a 2018 build slot. I went bright red apparently!

Great story buddy.. so nice to hear a real enthusiast get his hands on one :thumb:
 
freddie44 said:
Great story buddy.. so nice to hear a real enthusiast get his hands on one :thumb:

We should keep this thread in the locked down Members lounge :lock:

Porsche might find out that the car has gone to someone who is actually going to drive/keep it and try to take it back :sad:

:grin:
 
Cheib said:
I went bright red apparently!

Great story Chieb!

I think you must have gone LAVA red!!

I assume you have a long history with your OPC and buy cars as regular as clockwork!
 
Very nice, congratulations. Enjoy it.

Lets make sure we never park out GT3's together, I can't imagine Lava and Racing Yellow complimenting each other.

Regards
Fred
 
FredGT3 said:
Very nice, congratulations. Enjoy it.

Lets make sure we never park out GT3's together, I can't imagine Lava and Racing Yellow complimenting each other.

Regards
Fred

Oh I don't know....there's something to be said for a GT3 in a loud colour!

Clocked up 300 miles in my first week of ownership of which about 280 had no justification at all. Just love everything about the car, and I've never driven a car that gets so many positive comments.
 
750 miles in now so am starting to stretch a little over 4k rpm every now and again.....blimey it's fantastic. Did my PEC day yesterday in their PDK car which really opened my eyes to what I have waiting for me! Oh my word! I wasn't the only orange GT3 there thogh...there was also what I believe is the only UK PTS GT3 in Gulf Orange. Mine is the dirty one....

 

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