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Hi there

Warmer weather is here, a lovely 17c today and oh my this Exige is such an event to drive, so much presence just mulling around and truly capable when going faster, such a fun car, quick spin out this lunch time so grabbed some photos as its spotless clean:



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Very glad I got it as it was a somewhat impulsive buy but really enjoying it now its warmer on road, on track its just epic!
 
DRZ said:
We ought to sort out some sort of citrus fruit/skittles meet & shoot one sunny day...
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Absolutely!

Red, orange, green, yellow and a bright blue, look awesome!

Think I am going next Chester Cars & Coffee so will bring something more interesting, probably the Lotus or Ferrari. :)
 
Gibbo said:
Absolutely!

Red, orange, green, yellow and a bright blue, look awesome!

Think I am going next Chester Cars & Coffee so will bring something more interesting, probably the Lotus or Ferrari. :)
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Chester or Cheshire? Think the former is in Wrexham this time around. Cheshire is the one at Chester Lakes we were at the other weekend.
 
Rilot said:
How does the roof work on that? I can't see how it folds up with those strange wings at the back.
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Manual roof, the 987.2 Spyder is Porsches lightest production car for a long long time at 1275kg, but as such sacrifices need to be made, so it has a manual carbon roof, at first its quite a faff, but now its just very easy, simple as:
- Open rear boot
- Open both doors
- Pull the rear wings off as you call them.
- Remove the rear weather shield and put in boot if on.
- Pull release handle, unclip metal securing rope/wire, pull rear roof up and then press button to detatch the roof at front
- Place roof in the boot.

Sounds complicated and time consuming, which at first it is but now I'm used to it can do it in around 60-90s.


The 987.2 Cayman R and Spyder were the first moves by Porsche to start building more focused Boxster/Caymans, less weight, more power etc. The GT4 came next!

1275kg, hydraulic steering, manual gearbox, carbon buckets, they are a car that are a petrol heads dream with the flat 6 NA engine. However its a very niche car that was also released as recession hit so sales of Cayman R and Spyder were never big numbers, it was never a limited production car but due to the time released is more rare than say a GT4.

They were 40-45k new and are still 40-50k used and seem to be increasing, over 60k in Germany now, as its a car that ticks all the boxes for driver enjoyment and the balance is probably the best out there! Mine is hero spec been ceramics, manual, buckets, spyder wheels so I suspect it will be worth north of 50k no doubt later this year and more in years to come even with adding miles and enjoying it.

Shame its proving to be an unreliable pain in the backside at the moment, but battery is now ruled out and multimeter confirms it is no doubt the alternator / voltage regulator is issue.





For me S2000 and Boxster look somewhat rubbish with roof up, whereas the Spyder looks fantastic roof up or down, its a compromise but it looks better and saves weight for it. :)
 
First clean since i picked this up in october.
been great to have an estate, between the dog and Ikea trips its already proved a worthy purchase
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As Nath says glorious weather particular for black cars as for once it stayed clean so went to Wales in the Spyder:


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