Show Us Your Motors!

Cleisthenes · 25 Oct 2018 at 16:57

Housey said:
Flawed road car, but electric on the right road and track, once you are used to it's weight bias which does show itself.

I fortunately get to drive my dads 996 Turbo quite often and whilst it's ballistic in a straight line I never feel like I want to throw it into a corner like I do my MX5. The GT3 just seems like an MX5 but better in every way (other than being a hard top

).

Housey · 25 Oct 2018 at 17:05

Night and day the GT3 and Turbo, though as a road car the Turbo is the much more sorted and pliant. The 996 GT3 used to want to throw you off the road all the time and needed to be managed all the time, no rest in one. On PH back in the day everyone used to say how much quicker the Turbo was in a straight line...which I then showed them it wasn't at a runaway event. Happy times

agw_01 · 25 Oct 2018 at 17:23

I do love the 996, more so than the 997.

Stunning car Housey

Housey · 25 Oct 2018 at 18:40

agw_01 said:
I do love the 996, more so than the 997.

Stunning car Housey

It was a great car, sadly I think it's no more...

Like this one, ethereal

Dis86 · 25 Oct 2018 at 18:41

I was never a fan of the headlights on porsches of that era. Didn't like the step away from round/oval.

Cleisthenes · 25 Oct 2018 at 20:44

Housey said:
It was a great car, sadly I think it's no more...

Like this one, ethereal

It's gone? :eek:

Housey · 25 Oct 2018 at 20:57

Cleisthenes said:
It's gone?

The GT3, not the R8. Someone told me they believe it had met its maker when someone thought they had it under control no doubt. That's when they are at their finest, the moment they try and kill you.

Just checked, SORN and MOT ran out in 2015.

NickXX · 25 Oct 2018 at 22:22

Housey said:
Amazingly, this was 2007 (I think)

The 996 has really not aged well.

Akagi · 25 Oct 2018 at 22:41

wedrum said:
Look fine on the scooby.
Look gash on the red Toyota though.

R00d.

NickXX said:
The 996 has really not aged well.

Are you joking? It looks fantastic.

Cookeh · 26 Oct 2018 at 08:59

No it doesn't. Those headlights are utterly ghastly. They were at release and they've certainly not gotten better with age.

Gibbo · 26 Oct 2018 at 09:15

Cookeh said:
No it doesn't. Those headlights are utterly ghastly. They were at release and they've certainly not gotten better with age.

Though I still think the 996 looks great, I will agree the headlights were always its biggest let down and is the single reason why I'd never buy a 996, not only that I also quite disliked the handling of the 996 Carreras, yes the GT3's were much improved and Housey's GT3 tried to kill me at least 23 times on my drive in it and it certainly put me off buying one, so I got an M3 CSL instead, which for me was a much better car.

Here is my 997.1, I think it just looks a vastly superior car to the 996 and also has much cleaner looks and is definitely more 911 in it looks than the 996 was:

Kenai · 26 Oct 2018 at 09:25

The 996s biggest problem was the way the 997 instantly made it look like a car designed in 1990, rather than 1998.

Gibbo · 26 Oct 2018 at 09:32

Kenai said:
The 996s biggest problem was the way the 997 instantly made it look like a car designed in 1990, rather than 1998.

Very true, the 997 was far nicer inside and drove so much better as well, it was simply a slam dunk. Just a shame they all have the chocolate engines, until you get to 997.2 anyway.

olv · 26 Oct 2018 at 09:44

I think the 997.1 is my favourite looking 911 over all. Just not in yellow, with decals and black wheels.

Gibbo · 26 Oct 2018 at 10:16

olv said:
I think the 997.1 is my favourite looking 911 over all. Just not in yellow, with decals and black wheels.

My 911 was awesome, I loved it in yellow, with decals and black wheels, that is why my wallet came out.

Akagi · 26 Oct 2018 at 10:22

Cookeh said:
No it doesn't. Those headlights are utterly ghastly. They were at release and they've certainly not gotten better with age.

We'll have to agree to disagree on that one. I think it is a good looking car. Prefer the styling over the 997.

Kenai · 26 Oct 2018 at 10:29

Acme said:
We'll have to agree to disagree on that one. I think it is a good looking car. Prefer the styling over the 997.

You love wind deflectors, your opinion on what looks good is null and void

Yaayuh! · 26 Oct 2018 at 10:51

Kenai said:
You love wind deflectors, your opinion on what looks good is null and void

LOL!

He's got you there @Acme

Siliconslave · 26 Oct 2018 at 11:51

as were talking wind deflectors - hired this beauty for a week and worrying not the worst hire car i've had...

only 178k on the clock

Akagi · 26 Oct 2018 at 12:01

Kenai said:
You love wind deflectors, your opinion on what looks good is null and void

I do. I've had them on every car I can fit em to