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Indeed. Though for real madness take a trip to the 'ring and you'll see a few of them being chucked around it on the limit, in amongst a bunch of other similarly valuable cars!
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Indeed. Though for real madness take a trip to the 'ring and you'll see a few of them being chucked around it on the limit, in amongst a bunch of other similarly valuable cars!
I admire such people, who buy these cars and actually drive them as they were intended. It is almost upsetting when such amazing cars are purchased to be garage queens or museum pieces.
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Actually crazy! It's not something I would have expected from the newage 911s to appreciate as such, there must be some owners out there absolutely rubbing their hands together.
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Likewise, but you've got to have pretty deep pockets to be willing to risk it in the first place!
Extremely limited run out special, final metzger, final manual, final hydraulic steering model. Probably the pinnacle of the analogue GT3.
There is little risk if you drive within your limits and use common sense to be honest. Go to a big open circuit, get tuition and drive within your limits and/or cars limits.
Touch wood I've never caused damage to any of my cars, I've had a few offs where I knows it safe to go off so pushed on purpose to get a feel for how the car reacts beyond the limits.
I'd rather go off on track than the road, something I learned the hard way when I was younger.
For me that would actually be a hard choice, ,the RS 4.0 comes across to me as a far more usable everyday car. The CGT from my armchair expertise of them comes across as a much more delicate car.
But for 340k I'd rather buy a collection of great cars:-
997.2 GT3 - 80k
981 Cayman GTS - 55k
997.2 Turbo - 65k
140k change!
With that well:-
BMW E92 M3 DCT - 30k
CL63 AMG Merc or whatever they are - 40k
Dodge Challenger Hellcat - 50k
20k for fuel or squeeze a R35 GTR into the mix as well!
CGT without a doubt! Loads of beetles have flat 6s, not many Porsches have 5.7 V10s and a beechwood gear knob!
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I bet they clock up less than 1000 miles a year tho.
Nope.
You are hanging around in the wrong circles.
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I just meant seemingly most people with cars at the exotic end of the market tend to hardly use them.
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He's got a point - there will be an element of people paying these stupid prices who have no real passion for cars, and are just buying them hoping to make money on them.
Maybe but I've being on track days where Porsche CGT's and Enzo's have being actually on track for plenty of time and driven too and from track.
Recent day in Spa the guy with the Enzo drove down and clocked 211mph on the way and was pulling 170mph on the straight bit of Spa. Insanely fast!
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Oh the naivety
They use them loads, it just appears they don't.....
Are you implying that they get clocked?
Are you implying that they get clocked?
What Housey probably means whereas they maybe don't drive to and from work everyday in their supercar they will get used on weekends, European tours, trips to tracks and events.
People assume they are never driven simply because they don't see them that often on the roads, when in reality your not going to see such cars on the road when there is so few about.