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2014 Porsche Turbo

Wait for the GT2

*nods sagely*

Because where Clarkson will say about the Turbo what he said about the GT-R, what he will say about the GT2 is probably going to be bleeped out 😀
 
JackBurton said:
Definitely looks better than a GT-R.
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There is nothing wrong with the GT-R...but I would take this WAY over the GT-R. Every porsche I have driven or ridden in has been the closest to automotive ideal as I could imagine.

I have to say that if I really were to buy a new Porsche...it would be one with a proper manual...so I guess I would be stuck with a Carrera S. Even the GT3 has a PDK now.
 
Nice. I like how Porsches always look like Porsches and they barely change from year to year. If it's great, don't fuck with it.
 
PricklyPete said:
There is nothing wrong with the GT-R...but I would take this WAY over the GT-R. Every porsche I have driven or ridden in has been the closest to automotive ideal as I could imagine.

I have to say that if I really were to buy a new Porsche...it would be one with a proper manual...so I guess I would be stuck with a Carrera S. Even the GT3 has a PDK now.
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I love th GT-R, but style wise, it's not that exciting.

I just keep looking at that Porsche, and it really is the most beautiful Porsche I've ever seen. Gorgeous car. Now I just have to come up with $182K somehow. 🙂
 
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JackBurton said:
Definitely looks better than a GT-R.
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Yeah, I really don't like the look of the GTR. Gimme a Cayman R or a GT3 instead

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It's easy to say that you'd pay an extra $70K-$100K for some car when you're mindlessly typing on the internet. But when your actual money is involved, few would see the sense in it.
 
jlee said:
Yet somehow Ferrari and Lamborghini are still in business. 😉
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Their owners don't post on Anandtech. Corolla owners and guys who lease BMW 3 series do. And they're the ones most frequently shooting off their mouths about which supercar is not good enough for them. It's the automotive equivalent of pointy elbows.
 
madoka said:
Their owners don't post on Anandtech. Corolla owners and guys who lease BMW 3 series do. And they're the ones most frequently shooting off their mouths about which supercar is not good enough for them. It's the automotive equivalent of pointy elbows.
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I'm gonna have to agree with that.
 
madoka said:
It's easy to say that you'd pay an extra $70K-$100K for some car when you're mindlessly typing on the internet. But when your actual money is involved, few would see the sense in it.
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Yeah sure, but I'm pretty sure most people who buy 180K cars own other 100K+ cars. That is usually the case. So They can usually afford both. So they get whatever they want. When the GTR was 50K I could see people buying who couldn't afford a 911 Turbo or F430. Now with the GTR at 100K I think anyone who is seriously looking to buy one can most probably afford a car that is 70K more cause the GTR is not going to be their daily driver. So they are likely to own other expensive cars.

Just IMO. Maybe the F430 can correct me if I'm wrong, but I live in a pretty rich area (not rich myself) and In the car parks it's usually 911, Cayenne, M5 or Gallardo, ML63, RS4 or whatever multi 100K combination.
 
madoka said:
That just proves my point. When his actual money was on the line, he choose to buy a used car to save the $100K over new. People who claim that they'd spend the extra $100K to get the 911 Turbo S or whatever supercar would never do it in real life when it's their money.
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There is frequent poster here that has a McLaren. His Porsche is a DD.
 
madoka said:
That just proves my point. When his actual money was on the line, he choose to buy a used car to save the $100K over new. People who claim that they'd spend the extra $100K to get the 911 Turbo S or whatever supercar would never do it in real life when it's their money.
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So then explain to me why Porsche sells them.
 
jlee said:
So then explain to me why Porsche sells them.
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He's more or less right. His comment about the Corolla owners here acting like they would have no problem tossing an extra $100k at a car was accurate. No, not every person here owns a $10k used car, but pretty much no one here owns a $150k+ car and is speaking from experience. Someone thinks someone here owns a McLaren. That's one person out of 8000+ active users here which is statistically 0.

Why does Porsche sell them? Because there are an estimated 11 million millionaires in the world today. That is a lot of potential customers. But again, relative to the world population, that's only .15% of the population which equates to almost no one.
 
for that kind of money I would get an Aston Martin. Friend of mine has a vantage S and it's pure porn on wheels.
 
Pariah said:
He's more or less right. His comment about the Corolla owners here acting like they would have no problem tossing an extra $100k at a car was accurate. No, not every person here owns a $10k used car, but pretty much no one here owns a $150k+ car and is speaking from experience. Someone thinks someone here owns a McLaren. That's one person out of 8000+ active users here which is statistically 0.

Why does Porsche sell them? Because there are an estimated 11 million millionaires in the world today. That is a lot of potential customers. But again, relative to the world population, that's only .15% of the population which equates to almost no one.
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Exactly. And if you read the post I to which I was responding, he didn't say "among car guys on Anandtech."

madoka said:
It's easy to say that you'd pay an extra $70K-$100K for some car when you're mindlessly typing on the internet. But when your actual money is involved, few would see the sense in it.
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There are clearly people who see some sort of sense in it, otherwise exotics would not exist.
 
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