Porsche Owners Thread - If you own one or just like or hate them! :)

Dr House · 17 Mar 2017 at 20:07

crinkleshoes said:
Yes it is... that's £10k a month... but I'm a senior with specialist knowledge & finance/phrama experience - so the rates tend to be in the £600-800/day range. I landed a 3 year 5 day a week contract after the 3 month trial period, which is what got me the finance approval. They only wanted 3 month payment history which is what I was able to provide... so I was chuffed... I was expecting to get rejected but went for it anyway.

sorry I was not having a dig at you its none of my business how much you make or spend it on. It was more of a tongue-in-cheek comment.

But with £500 a day that only £115k per year and so unless you have a clever way of getting your money out of a LTD then driving a £150k its quite a large amount of your take home income, but as you say if your money is stuck inside a company and you are getting a good return then the finance does not sound like a bad idea. For me I would always look at how much its costing me per year in interest and then think I should be driving something cheaper, but you only live once.

Blackhawk47 · 17 Mar 2017 at 21:41

Dr House said:
But with £500 a day that only £115k per year

First time world problem right there.

crinkleshoes · 17 Mar 2017 at 22:26

[TW]Fox said:
It still sounds like a terrible rate to me, 8% is awful!

Also what is the difference between 'HP+Balloon' and a PCP?

LOL... my Boxster was on 22%... but it improved my credit history so much that this time I could get 8%... next time I expect better. There are boring ways to improve your rating and there are fun ways... I'd rather pay 22% on a Boxster when I can afford it vs other ways

8% on a GT3 ain't so bad...

Not much of a difference really... but feel free to google.

crinkleshoes · 17 Mar 2017 at 22:30

Dr House said:
sorry I was not having a dig at you its none of my business how much you make or spend it on. It was more of a tongue-in-cheek comment.

But with £500 a day that only £115k per year and so unless you have a clever way of getting your money out of a LTD then driving a £150k its quite a large amount of your take home income, but as you say if your money is stuck inside a company and you are getting a good return then the finance does not sound like a bad idea. For me I would always look at how much its costing me per year in interest and then think I should be driving something cheaper, but you only live once.

I know - didn't take it as such... just dis-agreed... take-home from 500/day will be about £7k/month... so £1600/month isn't a large chunk of that in my book for something you'll love driving and spend much of your life in.

As for interest... I'd rather get it now than wait 1.5-2 years and buying it outright... so don't mind paying that amount for getting it now rather than then and proportionally - the interest is nothing compared to the return of keeping more money in my investments. That's how I looked at it... I'm also not a patient person.

Added bonus is that the GT3 isn't the worst investment in the world either.

[TW]Fox · 17 Mar 2017 at 22:48

22% Apr on car finance, that's a new record surely

PeterNem · 17 Mar 2017 at 22:56

Would have been cheaper to buy it on a credit card!!

Blackhawk47 · 17 Mar 2017 at 23:24

[TW]Fox said:
22% Apr on car finance, that's a new record surely

That's worse than the infamous car craft clio on here. :eek:

crinkleshoes · 18 Mar 2017 at 10:31

Ended up paying about £30k for a £24k car as I paid it off early.

Bradmax57 · 18 Mar 2017 at 18:51

Took the plunge today and bought a Late Registered manual 2009 911 Carrera, cant wait collecting it Friday next week hopefully. Only thing it didn't have that I wanted was cruise so there going to retrofit it for me

Silver, Black Leather, Sunroof, Electric Memory Seats, Heated Seats, Bose Sound, Rear Wiper think that's about it, its got full history although not all Main Dealer, 59k on it and has had clutch and flywheel replaced at 50K, new pzero's all around with what I presume are refurbed wheels as theres not a mark and other than one or two minor stone chips to the front its in excellent condition, 2 previous owners so I'll be the 4th and last owner has had it 5 years

theone8181 · 19 Mar 2017 at 09:06

Bradmax57 said:
Took the plunge today and bought a Late Registered manual 2009 911 Carrera, cant wait collecting it Friday next week hopefully. Only thing it didn't have that I wanted was cruise so there going to retrofit it for me Silver, Black Leather, Sunroof, Electric Memory Seats, Heated Seats, Bose Sound, Rear Wiper think that's about it, its got full history although not all Main Dealer, 59k on it and has had clutch and flywheel replaced at 50K, new pzero's all around with what I presume are refurbed wheels as theres not a mark and other than one or two minor stone chips to the front its in excellent condition, 2 previous owners so I'll be the 4th and last owner has had it 5 years

Is it my eyesight or is there very little external difference between a 997 and a 991? Also won't you be the 3rd or did you mean 2 previous before current? These types of cars tend to have more owners in a shirt period if time compared to normal cars.

Bradmax57 · 19 Mar 2017 at 11:36

theone8181 said:
Is it my eyesight or is there very little external difference between a 997 and a 991? Also won't you be the 3rd or did you mean 2 previous before current? These types of cars tend to have more owners in a shirt period if time compared to normal cars.

yes meant 2 previous to current so I'll be the 4th, quite a lot of difference between the 991 and 997 if you ask me, back end is totally different as is the interior, there longer and lower too, but I cant afford a 991 at the moment, probably could have done on a pcp deal I guess but all done and dusted now

ChrisD. · 20 Mar 2017 at 12:32

Blackhawk47 said:
Contractor lifestyle m8.

If was raking in £500 day rate then I'd be driving round in a Porsche as well.

£500 a day is not enough to live properly and drive a GT3. Maybe a cheaper Porsche, but not a GT3.

ChrisD. · 20 Mar 2017 at 12:37

crinkleshoes said:
Yes it is... that's £10k a month....

It is no where near £10k a month take home. It's probably half of that with all the new rules, unless it's via some dodgy IOM type affair in which case HMRC will catch up with you as my housemate and his £35k bill from HMRC can attest to.

Havana_UK · 20 Mar 2017 at 12:46

£10k gross per month is about £6.5k take home with all your taxes paid fair and square.

RSR · 22 Mar 2017 at 13:31

That Panamera rear wing is epic engineering.

crinkleshoes · 25 Mar 2017 at 19:42

Grrrr... finance company came back with a no in the end, despite agreement in principal.

Oh well, MD at the company I'm working for at the moment gave the go-ahead yesterday to get me an M4 as a company car - so I'll use that for a few years and pick up a GT3 next time around.

SoliD · 25 Mar 2017 at 22:20

Could be a blessing in disguise interpreting previous posts.

Bradmax57 · 25 Mar 2017 at 22:34

Picked my 997.2 up today, absolutely in love

Housey · 25 Mar 2017 at 22:56

crinkleshoes said:
Grrrr... finance company came back with a no in the end, despite agreement in principal.

Oh well, MD at the company I'm working for at the moment gave the go-ahead yesterday to get me an M4 as a company car - so I'll use that for a few years and pick up a GT3 next time around.

You're a contractor and yet your MD is buying you a company car too?

Different.

olv · 26 Mar 2017 at 12:29

I've just had a 718 Boxster S for 24 hours whilst my 987 was serviced which was good fun. It was seriously quick, I know my Boxster is the slow one, but this thing made my old E46 M3, which I always thought was pretty fast, seem lethargic, it wouldn't see which way the Boxster went. 350hp, 2.5 litre flat four turbo, 0-100mph 8.5 seconds. This was PDK (no Sports Chrono), which did not feel any different to PDK in my car it terms of speed or usability.

The interior was a nice step up, the touchscreen navigation/media stuff makes it feel with the times, ergonomics are generally great.

The steering loses something to the electric assistance versus hydraulic but it's still very accurate and you can place the car exactly where you want it so not a massive deal. The brakes were over assisted compared to the 987 but are fine after you've adjusted to them. The engine is very torquey, revs much more willingly than expected and it far smoother than I thought it would be. Throttle response is largely brilliant and not far off my NA car but there are times if the turbo just isn't spinning at all that you get the classic delay after applying the gas. Some good noises from the exhaust in Sport mode too which had me giggling and there are times when the engine does sound decent, full throttle, full turbo intake sucking in air, sounds good, just sounds a bit lacking at other times. Overall it's a brilliant package, fast, economical, practical, comfy. It does it all.