It depends on who you are, and what you like. Uh-oh because its not faithful to the original R's concept which was pretty clinical, stripped & hard. Image Unavailable, Please Login
it's a well established (and discussed) fact that there is a big difference in both concept and execution between the old and new R's....I'd suggest that the original R's spiritual successor in the current Porsche lineup would be the Cup car, or maybe the GT3R; and as with so many other examples, the racing versions of the road cars aren't road legal as they were back in the day. so at this point comparing the new car to the original R is pretty silly.
I hope you hold the same sentiments with regards to the 599 GTO Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk 2
Agreed...It would be nice, however, if these renamed modern cars of important legacy racing cars were at least homologation specials. Perhaps that is not possible today though, due to the limited number of racing series. A new IROC series with 911R cars would be cool but I digress... Bingo!
Understood, but they could have made it more 'stripped' if they really wanted to, and IMO if they want to 'borrow' the hallowed R name, they should be faithful to that concept.
A very fortunate dealer, does any one have a number on the number of R's coming to the US please. How Does This Illinois Dealership Already Have Three 911 Rs?
The 911 R market isn't crazy. It's just stupid. The car is overhyped, overweight and not rare enough. I would buy one for msrp, and not a penny more. At most. That's the way I have always bought my cars. The only redeeming quality about the current 991 is the relative ease of maintenance that no other GT can touch. Ferrari could learn something from Porsche here. Ferrari N.V. (yup, it's technically a Dutch company now...) needs to ditch the DSX idiocy and build something that even Terri Schiavo could wrench on.
This Ebay listing says it was ended early by the seller; "This listing was ended by the seller because there was an error in the listing." I wonder what the "error" was? If I'm not mistaken, the seller actually raised the Buy it Now price on the car (to $1.15 million!!!) after the listing began so I doubt the listing was ended because the seller thought he was being too optimistic with the price.
I'm a bottom feeder. As a car guy that also considers resale value I have never bought a new sportscar. I will read and become thoroughly knowledgeable when they are introduced (in my small collection is a Boxer, 996 GT2, NSX and others) then wait until I feel they have hit the bottom of their depreciation curve and buy it. I don't have any desire for the 911 R. Perhaps its the instant hype and speculative nature of the car. IMO a GT2 or GT3 offers much more.
