Invite to Cayman R Silverstone experience

Don
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Just had one of these in the post today and have a few questions

anyone know what is involved ? do you get the hard sell from salesmen ? and generally are these things worth going to ?
 
If its the Porsche Driving Experience Centre, def go, I 've been a few times through work and its a great place to get a feel for the cars. Usually sales people from your centre will be there on the customer invite days, but its usually not for the hard-sell.

http://www.porsche.com/silverstone/
 
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should I take the reg numbers of the Cayman Rs being used there so that I can avoid those ones if I ever want to buy one ? ;)
 
I never got invited to those when i had Porsches :( I had too many arguments in there over the price of services i think.
 
You'll probably find my mate Ed will be in the car with you for this, he's not a salesman, just employed by Porsche at Silverstone to introduce people to new cars etc...

He's a top bloke.
 
I never got invited to those when i had Porsches :( I had too many arguments in there over the price of services i think.

The letter dis come from my local OPC so it looks like they do have to choice who to invite, I have had a few haggles over cost and 1 minor disagreement over a charge but it appears I am still on the good lads list ;)
 
The letter dis come from my local OPC so it looks like they do have to choice who to invite, I have had a few haggles over cost and 1 minor disagreement over a charge but it appears I am still on the good lads list ;)

You obviously aint trying hard enough iv been asked to leave East London OPC on a number of occasions when iv had to go Rambo about a **** take bill :D
 
The centre is great and I got this (well my dad) - is it not £275? If it's not - see you there!

I went recently there to drive all of them over a day for free. Boxster, cayman, 911, panamera and cayenne. Was a good day with everything for free, breakfast, posh lunch (which is nice but VERY small) and a lot of porsches.

The boxster and cayman were great on the simulated ice hill they have. They let you take them out on your own and basically try and spin it! The 911 was around their track and the other 2 out on the main roads.

Their test track is short but ok i guess for the purposes.

They also have forza to play on :)

Unfortunately, unless my dad buys another one i think that's the last freebie we get :(

Edit: they also have a fitness centre with a reaction machine. On my day whoever got the highest score won a ride in the GT2RS they had - you need to be tall to win this though :( the guy who won was around 6'4!
 
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aww sounds awesome only freebie I had was the mx5 day up loch lomond where we got lunch free and take the new mx5 for a spin :p
 
Went yesterday and it was superb

excellent 3 course lunch, 90 mins on handling circuit ( prob about 75 mins driving )

some skid stuff on a thing called the kickplate which is a "zero" friction surface with a metal section that moves to kick you into a spin

a low friction circuit for a bit of drifitng and a trip onto an off orad section with one of their drivers

a few other minor bits, was about 4 hrs in total

the Cayman R is superb, doesn't feel a lot quicker than the S in a straight line but the handling is amazing ( even compared to the already superb S ) really came into it's own on a section of track with a mid bend camber change

would give the CF bucket seats a miss though, a bit old/fat for those :p

oh and not a salesman to be sean :D
 
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