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
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! _________________ 997 GTS Manual
Cayenne S Diesel
Ruby Star 718 Boxster - Mrs Cheib's car
Lava Orange 991.2 GT3 Manual
Sport Classic Grey Macan Turbo PP
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 _________________ 2007 Porsche 997.1 GT3 CS
1997 TVR Chimaera 4L V8
1967 Alfa Romeo "duetto" Spyder
HSC911 Long Beach
Joined: 23 Jul 2014 Posts: 6129 Location: Bedford
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 11:02 am Post subject:
freddie44 wrote:
Great story buddy.. so nice to hear a real enthusiast get his hands on one
We should keep this thread in the locked down Members lounge
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
jotaking Hockenheim
Joined: 01 Jun 2012 Posts: 643
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 11:57 am Post subject:
Cheib wrote:
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!
FredGT3 Monza
Joined: 06 Sep 2011 Posts: 164
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 5:43 pm Post subject:
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 _________________ Current 14 991 GT3, 986S, 2017 Cayenne Diesel Platinum
Previous 997 GTS, 996 GT3
Flat out to the end of the road!
Cheib Spa-Francorchamps
Joined: 20 Feb 2016 Posts: 286
Posted: Mon May 21, 2018 8:00 pm Post subject:
FredGT3 wrote:
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. _________________ 997 GTS Manual
Cayenne S Diesel
Ruby Star 718 Boxster - Mrs Cheib's car
Lava Orange 991.2 GT3 Manual
Sport Classic Grey Macan Turbo PP
Cheib Spa-Francorchamps
Joined: 20 Feb 2016 Posts: 286
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2018 7:08 am Post subject:
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....
_________________ 997 GTS Manual
Cayenne S Diesel
Ruby Star 718 Boxster - Mrs Cheib's car
Lava Orange 991.2 GT3 Manual
Sport Classic Grey Macan Turbo PP
916 Newbie
Joined: 04 Jun 2018 Posts: 4 Location: Ascot
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2018 10:22 am Post subject:
Awesome, Enjoy! _________________ Soon a 997 GT3!
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