amdavid wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 1:35 pm
Nicely appointed both inside and out, love white on this car, you did good!
Thanks!
fpena944 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:27 am
What luck eh? Got a great new car you want to play with and here comes the snow!
Winter in New England isn't exactly unexpected. What was unexpected was a 4-week hold at port due to CARB certification. Some folks had been waiting for months. EPA certification for MY'21 992s and 718s happened in early November. So, August builds had been sitting at ports of entry for 3 months! CARB cert for CA and lemming states that follow it didn't happen until a week ago.
Since Dieselgate, apparently, the EPA and CARB like to fuck with VAG certification. I don't know what the deal is but every year there's a couple of Porsche (and VW) models that EPA and CARB just drag their heals certifying.
fpena944 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:27 am
Would you still drive this in snow or just hold off until the roads are more clear?
I'll drive it when the roads are clear. On the other hand if there's a pressing need to drive it on packed snow, I'll do it. That's what the snow tires are for.
fpena944 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:27 am
That is hilarious! Most of these hotshots start spewing steam from their ears when they think a car less capable than theirs "dares" to pass them.
Happens a lot at DEs. Folks that have spent a bazillion dollars on upgrades (except for upgrading the nut behind the wheel) basically won't let a 'lesser' car pass.
In this case you've got to be sure that it was a guy taking delivery of his dream that had never been on the track and who'd probably never driven a car with the power-to-weight ratio of a 991.2 Turbo S. And it wasn't even his car. When you do PEC delivery you don't get to take your car on the track; you get to take a very-similar car on the track.
fpena944 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:27 am
I do remember when the Boxster GTS came out and I did a couple of hot laps at CMP with the factory drivers. I was impressed by the performance of that car considering it still had less power than my 996. There's something to be said about a great suspension, lower weight, and superior dynamics compared to a higher horsepower car.
First time I was on the track a million years ago, the lesson of upgrading the nut behind the wheel was driven home when I couldn't keep up with the Chief Instructor's wife's Subaru station wagon in my 928.
fpena944 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:27 amThat's the biggest complain I've heard from others. But I'll tell you when I had my 944 it sounded wonderful even for only being a 4 cylinder. And I dare say I've heard some Subaru STi's that have intoxicating exhaust sounds too so I believe with the right exhaust anything can sound good.
I will be the first to admit that it is hard to make a 4-pot engine sound good. On the other hand I think a lot of the worship of the flat-6 noise is tribal. Or, IOWs, best proclaim that it's God's exhaust note or be ostracized from the 911 tribe.
For me it's a matter of Blonde? Brunette? Redhead? It's not the hair color that matters. So, as long as the engine and exhaust sound like an engine having fun, I'm good. The vast majority of car engines these days sound like something being tortured with chains inside a metal container filled with BBs.
The 718 flat-4 sounds good. So does the flat-6. And of course the V8 in the 928s too.
fpena944 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:27 am
I didn't expect it to be a manual as you hardly ever see them coming in that way anymore.
My SA told me that they rarely, almost never, order a manual transmission car for the lot. So, when you see a modern Porsche with a manual transmission, it's a virtual certainty that it was ordered specifically by a 'real' person.
I don't recall exactly the latest stats on MT take-rate on Porsches where it's available but it is disappointingly small ~15-20% IIRC. Maybe even less.
Part of the makeup of this bucket list item was that I wanted one modern Porsche MT sports car.
fpena944 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:27 am
Given what I've heard about the 718, you might not have a choice about whether the car will be ICE or not in the future.
Correct. I'd originally been looking at MY'22 or '23 for this, assuming it would be the last MY of this generation. Turns out that MY'22 is probably going to be Spyder, GT4, and GT4RS only and not at all in the EU due to their new stupid MY'22 regulations. And MY'23 is probably nothing. I doubt they'll have an electric version ready by then. And, I wouldn't care anyway.
So, this was my last chance to get that one modern Porsche MT sports car.
Oh and the 992? Nope. Can't stand *at all* the interior user interface execution(*). Hell, I don't really like the updated PCM in the '17+. Even though it 'looks pretty' it's not as usable and is more annoying than PCM '13-'16. I'll live with it though.
(*) I have no issue with TFT displays as opposed to mechanical gauges. It's a fine architecture if executed by professionals (engineers that is.) It is the execution of the architecture in this current generation of Porsche's that execrable. I had a MY'19 Cayenne with that UX as a loaner. I wanted to smash it with a hammer. I'm pretty sure that if I was sitting in one now, I could sit for several hours doing nothing but writing descriptions of all the human factors engineering mistakes made in it.
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