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I like some Porsche (certainly over the Corvette) Own one?

The 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7: One of the Greatest Cars Ever Made

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Porsche only made ~1500 cars including 200 Lightweight cars which won a bunch of races.

I had a replica. :D
 
Not wanting to soil this thread, but I owned one of the first Carrera 4's off the line in 1989. What a nightmare! Dealer service ( Brumos) was unable to determine the cause of the main problem (engine cut out), no fun when it happens at 70-80 mph in the left lane of a 4 lane highway filled with trucks. The Porsche technical manager had that teutonic arrogance and "it can't be the car's fault" attitude.

Had the car in the dealers 30 times for the engine and miscellaneous other problems in the first 12 months of ownership. The Magnusson Moss Act (Lemon Law) failed me, and the Judge denied a hearing because Porsche had retained King & Spalding law firm vs. my lone lawyer and they got him to believe part of an out of context statement in my deposition.

% Porsche and the horse they rode in on! I did get the satisfaction of knowing that Porsche shelled out more money in 4 years of retainer fees to K&S than it would have cost to replace my death trap.

Ahhh, that feels better, thanks for reading :D
I had a 1984 928 that would do that. I finally traced it to a wiring harness board on the firewall on the passenger side. Tiny hole at the bottom of the windshield would let water drain on to it shorting it out. I’m here to tell you I literally spent ten’s of hours trying to figuire it out. This was 1986. Pre internet. I lived in Florida. Major Kudo’s to PAP Porsche in Marietta , guy there told me what and where as he’d ran across it. And they’re still there in same location !
 
I’m in agreement with you. C8 is a euro wannabe car. Cool, but not a corvette. Front engine muscle car is a Corvette. People will look back and want the C7’s in the future.

And the 911 is always a classic badass.
You have no idea what you are talking about. What do you drive?
 
Went to Blood Mountain the other weekend with a good friend. I always wanted a GT3RS and he recently beat me to it and got himself a 991.1. We exchanged cars a couple of times, so I got to see if the grass is always greener. I think it is. The GF likes the GTR more, but I think the RS is a different kind of experience.

They were neck n neck in the twisties going up the mountain. RS with its downforce and GTR with its AWD wizardry. Shear acceleration, the GTR walked the RS especially after 100mph when the drag from that RS wing kicks in. We brought along a supercharged Arial Atom, which destroyed us both.

I am looking at getting the 991.2 RS, 2013+ 458 Italia or 720S. Right now I have the budget of 200-225ish which puts me in the 991.1RS and 458 spectrum, so I'm debating on saving a bit more to be in the 250-280 range and go with the 991.2 or 720S. Just paid for a 40K transferable MP5 today, so that has set me back a few months again. Will probably buy in Jan or Feb 2023. Modifying the GTR to ungodly numbers is also a possibility. Lots of people tell me to do that, but you live life once, I want to get something a bit more exotic before I turn 40. Bucket list kind of thing.

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