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I haven’t owned a Turbo but was interested sometime ago. It was the cost of replacement turbo’s and even spark plug changing that put me off. Is it the 997 turbo that is an engine out job to replace spark plugs? Regardless, it’s a mega job to swap them out. Also I think they’re too fast for the road and the high revving nature of water cooled Porsches makes it nigh on impossible to exploit the performance in the UK. The gearing is too long. Too much power and the lack of drama in delivering performance. Great cars though.
One thing i noticed while on the test drive yesterday is that the car is far better behaved and planted than my current C2S, gathers pace much more smoothly, not jittery on the road at pace and didnt have that light feeling at the nose at pace - no idea whether thats to do with the 997.2 turbo or more related to my car maybe needing money spending on sorting a Geo or something?
I like your style. You wanted a car, saw a car that you liked, bought it! No faffing around kicking tyres and asking endless questions. You just got on with it. Good luck with it, it’s look like a beauty .Its really odd isn't it, im not a very showy person so dont think id ever feel comfortable in a ferarri mclaren or lambo - the porsche gives you all of the performance of those cars but without the attention grabbing that you might get. Its just subtly capable machine...
Who knows what comes next after the Turbo, i cant see a need to ever have anything different
I like your style. You wanted a car, saw a car that you liked, bought it! No faffing around kicking tyres and asking endless questions. You just got on with it. Good luck with it, it’s look like a beauty .
Is that right? you can have the sport button retro fitted and it does the same thing sports chrono does without the stopwatch? who does that work?Sport Chrono on a 997 and 987 is imho fairly useless, as there isn't even a clock.
You can actually just install the unit without having the chrono function
Its really odd isn't it, im not a very showy person so dont think id ever feel comfortable in a ferarri mclaren or lambo - the porsche gives you all of the performance of those cars but without the attention grabbing that you might get. Its just subtly capable machine...