Pickled Piper
Suzuka
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No I have't bought one yet, but I had a long test drive in a 993 C2 manual today. Lovely car, I could definitely live with it . Here are my first impressions in no particular order, please feel free to confirm or contradict;
The interior is definitely something out of the seventies, but hey that's not why you buy a 993. The offset pedals and the driving position were very easy to get used to, gearshift was an absolute delight, the clutch and brake pedal required high efforts but were very precise. I very soon was confident enough with the controls to be changing up and down the box just for the hell of it. It sounds great when double declutching. I didn't get round to heel and toeing, maybe another time.
I drove the car well within my, and most definitely the cars, limits. The roads were wet and greasy so I was particularly careful. A couple of times the rear end felt a bit jittery whilst making progress on a windy road, almost as it had been upset by a bump in the road surface. The steering wheel provided a lot of feel to the point where it appeared to be bordering on a vibration.
Ride was quite firm, but not unacceptable for a sports car ( car had 18" wheels). Engine noise was enjoyable. Wind noise was high. I couldn't determine exactly where it was coming from. Performance was good, torquey, but quite docile until you hit 4000rpm, then yeehah. Didn't have an opportunity to get much above 85mph, although I did get up to that speed very rapidly on several occasions.
The standard seats were quite poor, with little suspension movement in the back, only foam compression and inadequate lumbar support. Maybe I could have played with the seat controls a bit more and found a more comfortable position.
The car was a pre Varioram model. Pretty much the spec that I wanted but didn't have air con. Could definitely have done with it as it got quite stuffy inside.
Oh yes, found what appeared to be a rust bubble on top of the sill. Is this typical for a 94 car?
Heart said buy it, but head said wait. It's the first car I've driven for any length of time and I'm in no great hurry, so I will probably hold out for one with AC.
PP
Migration info. Legacy thread was 17737
The interior is definitely something out of the seventies, but hey that's not why you buy a 993. The offset pedals and the driving position were very easy to get used to, gearshift was an absolute delight, the clutch and brake pedal required high efforts but were very precise. I very soon was confident enough with the controls to be changing up and down the box just for the hell of it. It sounds great when double declutching. I didn't get round to heel and toeing, maybe another time.
I drove the car well within my, and most definitely the cars, limits. The roads were wet and greasy so I was particularly careful. A couple of times the rear end felt a bit jittery whilst making progress on a windy road, almost as it had been upset by a bump in the road surface. The steering wheel provided a lot of feel to the point where it appeared to be bordering on a vibration.
Ride was quite firm, but not unacceptable for a sports car ( car had 18" wheels). Engine noise was enjoyable. Wind noise was high. I couldn't determine exactly where it was coming from. Performance was good, torquey, but quite docile until you hit 4000rpm, then yeehah. Didn't have an opportunity to get much above 85mph, although I did get up to that speed very rapidly on several occasions.
The standard seats were quite poor, with little suspension movement in the back, only foam compression and inadequate lumbar support. Maybe I could have played with the seat controls a bit more and found a more comfortable position.
The car was a pre Varioram model. Pretty much the spec that I wanted but didn't have air con. Could definitely have done with it as it got quite stuffy inside.
Oh yes, found what appeared to be a rust bubble on top of the sill. Is this typical for a 94 car?
Heart said buy it, but head said wait. It's the first car I've driven for any length of time and I'm in no great hurry, so I will probably hold out for one with AC.
PP
Migration info. Legacy thread was 17737
