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I'm hoping to park an E92 M next to my 911 someday Miss the E92 M3 intake noise. Special car.
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There really isn’t anything less than $85k that interests me over my e90 m3. May want to check out a 911 targa or 911 GT3. Take that back, the Alfa Romeo Gulia Quad is interesting.
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04-05-2018, 01:36 PM | #27 |
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I just drove a 991.2 C2S coupe 7MT with power kit. It was special ordered, really nice build, but owner had an ankle injury and had to trade it in on a PDK car with 600 miles on it. I drove it in "real world" conditions to see how I'd like it as an everyday car.
1) It's still a 911. You can hear and feel what each individual tire is doing, all the time. This is good and bad. It seems to shut up on the highway somewhat, but I was surprised at all the comments about how refined the new cars are you'd think it's an isolation chamber now and its' definitely still very sports-car inside. 2) The new motor is just plain excellent. Sound, response, power, torque, you can finally make those giant rear tires feel like they're working a bit. And it's the first turbo engine I've driven that hasn't made me miss the S65. Even the S55 (which I think, is a wonderful engine to drive, haters come at me) is still a little too TURBOOOOOO for me. The new 911 engine feels "light on its feet" for a turbo engine, very fizzy 3) The 991 interior did not jive as well with me ergonomically as past 911's. Give me chintzy and relatively ergonomically correct 996 over button fever even if it is miles ahead on quality and feature content. Also, just felt a little too cavelike. I can see the appeal of the Targa. 4) the 7MT takes some getting used to but it's a good trans. I had trouble discerning gates between 3-4, 5-6 by feel. Luckily consequences are just a jerky shift at any sane road speed even if you accidentally grab 3rd from 7th or something. Surely I'd adapt. 7th gear highway cruise was very relaxed and comfortable in the default suspension settings. Sport exhaust on, all the time, still isn't all that bad inside the car but outside holy moly sounds amazing and is LOUD for a stock turbo car, good work on that Porsche Overall, I liked it more than any other 911 I've driven. It was the perfect "street 911" build and I would have picked just about everything the owner picked, except I would have gone with Chalk for the exterior, and it was lovely. But I still like my E90M better, as a package. Which sortof surprised me honestly. I was expecting to be ready to tell them to shut up and take my money.
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I agree that the 991 is still loud inside (tire noise). My issue with the E90 M3 is that its just too *busy* all the time. The 991 really settles down and cruises when you ask it to. I love the interior and exterior of the 991. I ordered an "espresso" interior and the agate grey exterior and it feels like a nicely made piece of luggage. |
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I appreciated the '09 997 6-speed I had, but found it too "no compromise" to commute in. The 991 with PDK is far FAR more comfortable in any situation. But now that I have the 991, which feels like more of a grand touring car, I have been looking to purchase either a 997.2 GT3 or a '16 Boxster Spyder in order to own a sports car that can be reasonably stressed on a curvy public road. The 991 is far too capable, meaning that if I'm on a public street I don't run into car capability- I run into my own appetite for liability far sooner. I don't want to go to jail if it doesn't involve a story I want to tell my grand kids some day. The M3 is a really good "beast of burden" for track time, auto-X, and the occasional weekend public road drive. |
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I am going to buy a 991.1TT but will likely keep my E90M3. Might supercharge it.
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I think you've touched on it for me. I have loved every Boxster I've driven from old base 5speed 2.7l cars on up. The 911 and I just don't jive for some reason. And I really really love the idea of them and appreciate them as awesome cars, but if this one and I didn't get a long I don't know what else to try short of a GT3, but if I'm getting a 2-seater, the Boxster and I already get along great? Maybe I need to try a 993 just kidding can't afford to spend that kind of money on 25 year old car...wait can't afford a 930 C2 either...can't even afford a scale model of a 930 turbo, lol
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I would love to see a Cobb Accessport solution for tuning. I'm semi-tempted to do the GIAC ECU tune but I'm balking at taking off my rear bumper and forking over $2000.
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Sadly I let the E90 M3 car go yesterday to a wonderful fellow forum member. It was my first performance car and I will always cherish my time with it. I had to offload the M3 to get a model 3 for our upcoming move and the 110mi round trip commute. I'll upload some pics this weekend after picking it up.
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