and took it back for this much more subdued model

















but luckily only for a few days whilst a fault with the front axle lift gets fixed

 

Which model is that Trout?

 

Is that a GTS? I like it a LOT!

 

MY2011 C4S, PDK, lots of toys.

After the RS it is like driving a suet pudding.

Very much a middle aged coupe

 

They actually had the ultimate mid-life car for me - a Turbo cab - but a customer had booked a test drive.

 

Seriously Trout, isn't it fun at all?

 

To be fair I have driven it 25 miles through town and on a dual carriageway.

It is brand new so I am not giving it too much welly to respect the new engine.

It is OK - but I am not a fan of autos (didn't you guess) and it is comparing it to an RS which is a bit like comparing a 20cm newly sharpened Global to an Alessi Butter knife. They are both good, but have different roles in life!

 

Will you be getting one of those nurburgring stickers slapped on the side Trout ?

- do they do them in Halfords

 

Now that would be funny. The requirement is no track days and do not take it out the country!

 

In the 60's Hertz (in the US) used to rent the Shelby Mustang GT350 to customers -- most of whom would race/track them over a weekend before returning them on Monday morning (often with roll cages still in!!!!)

Hertz unfortunately stopped renting them

 

Fair points and what I was expecting I suppose coming from the RS. The PDK is meant to be good though isn't it?

 

It's a lardy 4WD Porsche - totally unnecessary.
Unless it's got a couple of K24s bolted to the engine


Can't believe the RS has broken already....

 

How did it break? Pothole?

 

Ha ha!!

No - it was faulty from the factory. The front axle lift goes up on it's own when I leave the car overnight! Looks like the pressure valve is leaking. It is a non-core part of the car fortunately - otherwise I would be VERY unhappy!

Mind you - it is something that should have been fixed in PDC - when I picked it up and pointed out the fault they just looked clueless.

 

PS Yes the PDK is excellent...










...if you want a weight sapping, driver interfering auto

 

Has the wife been sneaking into the garage at night, in her see-through negligee, stroking the car.....

 

Just been checking out the details of the 4S

With PDK in Sport Chrono mode (a cheeky extra from Porsche) it will do 0-100 in 9.4s!!!

Pretty quick for suet.

 

In your dreams - she thinks your post is very funny and if you give £1,000 to Comic Relief we will put up a picture

 

I've already seen a pitcher of the car

 

gauntlet well and truly down

 

Show me the money

 

Right, lets be clear on this. If I give £1k to comic relief and prove it you will put up a picture of the missus in a see through negligee?

 

interesting thread

 

EFA

 

Been driving it again this morning - after a dose of lardy diesel BMW in between.

Now it is not back to back with the RS it feels much better. Actually quite a nice car. Suspension is a little bit crashy over big joins in the tarmac. PDK is easy to use - and once you get used to having to press the throttle hard to get a response it is pretty nippy. Very easy to thread through town traffic quickly and nice corner to corner cross country.

If ever there was a 'sensible' fast car to own, this is it. Performance figures are probably the same as the TT-RS, except at this spec it is around £90k. I would really struggle to see the value of £90k in this when a GT3 is about the same price.

But that is down to preference.

 

Trout - nobody cares about the 911 just show us the missus' ***** .

Not to kean on the alloys.

 

Trout , the girlfriends offering 25 quid for your full frontal

 

Those alloys were a very expensive option!!


dpb - the going rate is £1k

 

What? For him NOT to show a full frontal?

 

Thanks.

Btw, have you thought any further about my charitable offer?