I was in this morning, I must look poor, couldn’t get hold of a salesman at all
I've noticed this with Porsche, they more or less totally ignore you, I had to make eye contact for several seconds to make a sales guy realise I wanted to talk to someone.
Walk into Ferrari and greeted with hello, can we help you, would you like a coffee.
I get people don't like pushy sales people but Porsche seem a little too relaxed.
Oh and the GT3, it is one naughty car, maybe a bit too much for the road in all honesty, it is somewhat not exciting at mundane speeds, but this could be also why they are so popular but the car does not really start to come alive until your really pushing it which means not to so legal speeds, it is very capable and very feel some, but it has no real magic at legal speeds to be honest, I still love it but the Ferrari totally has it out classed at normal speeds, always feels insanely special and intoxicating to drive even at low speeds. I shall be looking to do some track days in both this year so will be good to compare them.
As a road car my Spyder is more enjoyable at legal speeds and feels far less naughty on the road, again mainly down to gearing, but it also has less power.
The problem with the GT3 is what makes it also so amazing, you want to chase the 9000rpm redline because it has amazing tone and sounds incredible but its gearing is just a little too long to do that on the public road and it really needs to be over 5000rpm to be really on it, under 4000rpm it is pretty tame. The 458 pulls hard from 2000rpm all the way to 9000rpm and it screams all the way there, admittedly having valves unplugged helps, I'd not dare unplug the valves on the GT3 as its just too loud with the IPE manifolds and exhaust.
Best way to describe it is the 458 is playful, it feels engaging just going down a b-road at 40-60mph and the gearing means you can enjoy gears 1-4 easily on a legal b-road blast because the power band is so elastic. Whereas the Porsche totally eggs you on to push it very hard, meaning you really want to drive everywhere at 60-130mph, the latter really not been socially acceptable or legal, the 458 is just as planted at the limit but the 458 has a feeling of reward and enjoyment without needing to approach its limits, whereas the GT3 feels immensely planted and as such you want to be closer to the limits to feel it alive.
Its a super car, I cannot wait to put more miles on it but I do need to be very careful as it is very easy to totally break the speed limit chasing the fun factor. Shorter gearing would really help it as a road car and the gearing is not that crazy long to be honest. Once your on it and keeping it over 6000rpm it feels not much slower than the 458, the difference been in the GT3 you want to keep going well into triple digits whereas the gearing on the 458 means it satisfies at much lower speeds. If I was 26 again when I had my yellow 911 I'd not care as I was pretty outrageous back then but at same time there was far less cameras to worry about, as I've grown older I've become more responsible and also more aware and that it needs to be saved for the race circuit. Problem for the 911 is there is no way it is passing any noise regulations. As such at
@ScoobyDoo69 we definitely need another Curborough track day please.
The colour is amazing, looks bright in the shade, very much post box red, the front lifter is engaged here hence the extra front height to make clearing speed bumps easy.
Has a great spec on it, heated buckets, extra leather, lifter, xenons with PDLS, red stitching, red belts, chrome washer jets, sound system is pretty junk though but it has got NAV, bluetooth and USB, plus an old school CD player which I like, but the exhaust and engine beat any sound system. 2yr warranty, next service next year. Full XPEL Ultimate to entire car, believe it or not it has not been washed and covered around 400 miles yet dirt or water spots do not seem to show at all.
