porsche, the eternal sports car?

[vizkiz]

Originally posted by: d3n

Originally posted by: vizkiz

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra

Originally posted by: vizkiz

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
Yup the chassis on the caymen is great, it should be since it's the same on the 260,000 Caymen GT3. Also your Lotus "facts" are completelyunfounded and wrong. It is not girly at all, nor does it handle like a golf cart. If anything the entry level porsche is a chic's car.

WTF is a Cayman GT3? You mean 911 GT3?
Well then, you'd be horribly, horribly wrong.

And 260,000 what? Since your profile says California, I'm gonna go ahead and assume you mean 260k USD. If so, you'd be way off. The new GT3 IS $106k base price.

No version 3.0 of the Caymen GT. The one that Jay Leno owns.

Carrera GT? The one with the 5.7L V10 and 605hp? The one that cost $448k?

Dude, that car has a carbon fiber monocoque different from any other Porsche ever produced, aside from their race cars. That car was initially being built as a race car and they stopped R&D on it to build the Cayenne. Instead of letting all of the money spent on R&D for it go to waste, they changed a bunch of stuff on it and turned it into a street-legal car.

Im curious how the McLaren SLR Mercedes compares to this on the track. Think I'll have to dig out my archive of Top Gear for an indirect comparison.

Nurburgring Nordschliefe:
Porsche 911 [996] GT3 - 381HP - 7:43
Corvette Z06 - 505HP - 7:43
SLR McLaren - 617HP - 7:40
Carrera GT - 605HP - 7:28

 

[fstime]

Originally posted by: vizkiz

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra

Originally posted by: vizkiz

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
Yup the chassis on the caymen is great, it should be since it's the same on the 260,000 Caymen GT3. Also your Lotus "facts" are completelyunfounded and wrong. It is not girly at all, nor does it handle like a golf cart. If anything the entry level porsche is a chic's car.

WTF is a Cayman GT3? You mean 911 GT3?
Well then, you'd be horribly, horribly wrong.

And 260,000 what? Since your profile says California, I'm gonna go ahead and assume you mean 260k USD. If so, you'd be way off. The new GT3 IS $106k base price.

No version 3.0 of the Caymen GT. The one that Jay Leno owns.

Carrera GT? The one with the 5.7L V10 and 605hp? The one that cost $448k?

Dude, that car has a carbon fiber monocoque different from any other Porsche ever produced, aside from their race cars. That car was initially being built as a race car and they stopped R&D on it to build the Cayenne. Instead of letting all of the money spent on R&D for it go to waste, they changed a bunch of stuff on it and turned it into a street-legal car.

Yeah dude, wtf are you talking about.

I think you have some serious issues with Porsche's as far as their names go.

First you think Cayman Chassis= Cayman GT3 Chassis, which doesn't exist, you meant Carrera GT which is a COMPLETELY different platform, not even close.


Then you claim I said the Lotus handled like a golfcart.

Then you claim this so called Cayman GT3 costs 260K when the Carrera GT costs more way than that.

wtf are you talking about. 😕

BTW: Cayman is by far one of the best handling Porsche's ever, if it wasn't power limited, it would cream a 911 on the track.

 

[d3n]

Originally posted by: vizkiz

Originally posted by: d3n

Originally posted by: vizkiz

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra

Originally posted by: vizkiz

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
Yup the chassis on the caymen is great, it should be since it's the same on the 260,000 Caymen GT3. Also your Lotus "facts" are completelyunfounded and wrong. It is not girly at all, nor does it handle like a golf cart. If anything the entry level porsche is a chic's car.

WTF is a Cayman GT3? You mean 911 GT3?
Well then, you'd be horribly, horribly wrong.

And 260,000 what? Since your profile says California, I'm gonna go ahead and assume you mean 260k USD. If so, you'd be way off. The new GT3 IS $106k base price.

No version 3.0 of the Caymen GT. The one that Jay Leno owns.

Carrera GT? The one with the 5.7L V10 and 605hp? The one that cost $448k?

Dude, that car has a carbon fiber monocoque different from any other Porsche ever produced, aside from their race cars. That car was initially being built as a race car and they stopped R&D on it to build the Cayenne. Instead of letting all of the money spent on R&D for it go to waste, they changed a bunch of stuff on it and turned it into a street-legal car.

Im curious how the McLaren SLR Mercedes compares to this on the track. Think I'll have to dig out my archive of Top Gear for an indirect comparison.

Nurburgring Nordschliefe:
Porsche 911 [996] GT3 - 381HP - 7:43
Corvette Z06 - 505HP - 7:43
SLR McLaren - 617HP - 7:40
Carrera GT - 605HP - 7:28

Nice, every single one of those times qualify as crazy fast. Just looking at the HP numbers the Porsche handling must be as zeroed in as ever.

 

[vizkiz]

Originally posted by: d3n

Originally posted by: vizkiz

Originally posted by: d3n

Originally posted by: vizkiz

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra

Originally posted by: vizkiz

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
Yup the chassis on the caymen is great, it should be since it's the same on the 260,000 Caymen GT3. Also your Lotus "facts" are completelyunfounded and wrong. It is not girly at all, nor does it handle like a golf cart. If anything the entry level porsche is a chic's car.

WTF is a Cayman GT3? You mean 911 GT3?
Well then, you'd be horribly, horribly wrong.

And 260,000 what? Since your profile says California, I'm gonna go ahead and assume you mean 260k USD. If so, you'd be way off. The new GT3 IS $106k base price.

No version 3.0 of the Caymen GT. The one that Jay Leno owns.

Carrera GT? The one with the 5.7L V10 and 605hp? The one that cost $448k?

Dude, that car has a carbon fiber monocoque different from any other Porsche ever produced, aside from their race cars. That car was initially being built as a race car and they stopped R&D on it to build the Cayenne. Instead of letting all of the money spent on R&D for it go to waste, they changed a bunch of stuff on it and turned it into a street-legal car.

Im curious how the McLaren SLR Mercedes compares to this on the track. Think I'll have to dig out my archive of Top Gear for an indirect comparison.

Nurburgring Nordschliefe:
Porsche 911 [996] GT3 - 381HP - 7:43
Corvette Z06 - 505HP - 7:43
SLR McLaren - 617HP - 7:40
Carrera GT - 605HP - 7:28

Nice, every single one of those times qualify as crazy fast. Just looking at the HP numbers the Porsche handling must be as zeroed in as ever.

I forgot the new Turbo, but I don't know the exact times.
[2007+] 997 Turbo - 480HP - 7:46 (manual transmission)
[2007+] 997 Turbo - 480HP - 7:52 (tiptronic [auto] transmission)

The Tiptronic is better in a straight line, as evidenced by the 0-60 and 1/4 mile times. The 6spd is better in any other type of race.

 

[vizkiz]

Originally posted by: d3n

Originally posted by: vizkiz

Originally posted by: d3n

Originally posted by: vizkiz

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra

Originally posted by: vizkiz

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
Yup the chassis on the caymen is great, it should be since it's the same on the 260,000 Caymen GT3. Also your Lotus "facts" are completelyunfounded and wrong. It is not girly at all, nor does it handle like a golf cart. If anything the entry level porsche is a chic's car.

WTF is a Cayman GT3? You mean 911 GT3?
Well then, you'd be horribly, horribly wrong.

And 260,000 what? Since your profile says California, I'm gonna go ahead and assume you mean 260k USD. If so, you'd be way off. The new GT3 IS $106k base price.

No version 3.0 of the Caymen GT. The one that Jay Leno owns.

Carrera GT? The one with the 5.7L V10 and 605hp? The one that cost $448k?

Dude, that car has a carbon fiber monocoque different from any other Porsche ever produced, aside from their race cars. That car was initially being built as a race car and they stopped R&D on it to build the Cayenne. Instead of letting all of the money spent on R&D for it go to waste, they changed a bunch of stuff on it and turned it into a street-legal car.

Im curious how the McLaren SLR Mercedes compares to this on the track. Think I'll have to dig out my archive of Top Gear for an indirect comparison.

Nurburgring Nordschliefe:
Porsche 911 [996] GT3 - 381HP - 7:43
Corvette Z06 - 505HP - 7:43
SLR McLaren - 617HP - 7:40
Carrera GT - 605HP - 7:28

Nice, every single one of those times qualify as crazy fast. Just looking at the HP numbers the Porsche handling must be as zeroed in as ever.

You think that's fast, the Radical SR8 can do it in under 7 minutes :Q

 

[CraigRT]

Gorgeous ...

 

[vizkiz]

I have spy pictures of the facelifted car, I'll post them when I get home from work, around 5:30-6 tonight.

 

[James3shin]

Originally posted by: vizkiz

Originally posted by: d3n

Originally posted by: vizkiz

Originally posted by: d3n

Originally posted by: vizkiz

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra

Originally posted by: vizkiz

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
Yup the chassis on the caymen is great, it should be since it's the same on the 260,000 Caymen GT3. Also your Lotus "facts" are completelyunfounded and wrong. It is not girly at all, nor does it handle like a golf cart. If anything the entry level porsche is a chic's car.

WTF is a Cayman GT3? You mean 911 GT3?
Well then, you'd be horribly, horribly wrong.

And 260,000 what? Since your profile says California, I'm gonna go ahead and assume you mean 260k USD. If so, you'd be way off. The new GT3 IS $106k base price.

No version 3.0 of the Caymen GT. The one that Jay Leno owns.

Carrera GT? The one with the 5.7L V10 and 605hp? The one that cost $448k?

Dude, that car has a carbon fiber monocoque different from any other Porsche ever produced, aside from their race cars. That car was initially being built as a race car and they stopped R&D on it to build the Cayenne. Instead of letting all of the money spent on R&D for it go to waste, they changed a bunch of stuff on it and turned it into a street-legal car.

Im curious how the McLaren SLR Mercedes compares to this on the track. Think I'll have to dig out my archive of Top Gear for an indirect comparison.

Nurburgring Nordschliefe:
Porsche 911 [996] GT3 - 381HP - 7:43
Corvette Z06 - 505HP - 7:43
SLR McLaren - 617HP - 7:40
Carrera GT - 605HP - 7:28

Nice, every single one of those times qualify as crazy fast. Just looking at the HP numbers the Porsche handling must be as zeroed in as ever.

You think that's fast, the Radical SR8 can do it in under 7 minutes :Q

That thing is a GO-KART on steroids, mixed with LSD wearing a powder blue suit!

 

[SVT Cobra]

I am a perfect example of Porsche's buggy naming system. 😱 😛

😀

:Q

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