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Originally Posted by Qship
@Devo,
How often do you drive on the Autobahn? When was the last time you drove for 2 or 3 hours at speeds over 125mph semi-sustained? Over here, there is a lot of speeding up and slowing down. This is how these little competitions start. The fastest cars generally wind up in a line behind the slowest ones... If you are faster, then you bulldoze the car in front of you out of the way when they finally cede, and then you cruise for a while.
Oh...I just noticed...you drive a Porsche. No offense intended, since I am a long standing Porsche fan.
If you don't want to believe it, then perhaps you should spend some time on the Autobahn and find out how 0-60 doesn't actually mean anything...at all. Rolling starts are a different world completely. Speeds over 125mph? This is about manufacturer gearing decisions, weight, torque, horsepower, and aerodynamics.
Both behind and in front the M3 was faster than the 997 TT. Repeatedly.
Now maybe that is because I shift rather well- or it could be that Porsches are getting a bit chubby and that will get fixed pronto or Ferry will come back from the grave to Zuffenhausen to motivate his engineers. What do you think? Give it a year, and this is going to be a very different discussion.
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I think the other poster took pictures of the article
The writers/reviewers were looking for a car that is practical, and can perform as well; a good GT car. I still standby my statement that a 997 TT is a better
performance car than the M3, but in my opinion Porsches are overrated. I know the fanboys will come back and say I'm completely full of sh!t, and that I know nothing and what not, but I think they are. Yeah they handle great, but it just doesn't feel like something special. If I'm going to pay $200k+ on a car I would most definitely get an F430 over a GT2. When you sit in a Ferrari you know you're in something special, something that has been hand crafted in minute detail. The Porsche feels like it can perform, and it has technology and craftsmanship, but you just don't feel the sense of occasion in it. Now do I feel that in an M3? Not entirely, about the same or a little less as a Porsche, but I wouldn't expect to on a car that costs only $70k.
I'm not going to bash Porsches and I haven't, like I said they are a great performance car, but the writers of this article are right, when looking for a great GT car, the 997 TT isn't it.