996/997 GT3s
 

Who's interested? :hahaha:

I'm very tempted at the moment.

Always wanted Pork, and am in the camp of if I don't do it soon, will I ever do it...? :bigcry:

Anyone else in the same boat?

I'm on the list for a Cayman GT4 but not sure which would be a better car to buy. The GT4 will be brand spanking new of course, and might prove very popular...

Love the GT3 range, but sticking with cesil made that choose 9 years ago when I could have bought a 996 GT3. What I find interesting is that cesr owners seem to prefer pork over red Fiats Can't remember any Fiats being discussed here.
Can't see why I would buy now when prices have gone very silly.

Worth a read
https://grrc.goodwood.com/road/news/...911-gt3-values

I'm a huge Porsche fan & have 2 aircooled ones :thumbs:

These days the only watercooled 911 I'd have is a GT3 , great cars

But, my CSL has become one of my favorite cars, it does everything I want .... track car ( admitedly only been on track once ) , great yorkshire dales back road blaster ( better than a GT3 probo on these roads due to extra suspension travel, ground clearance etc ) , school run car ( massive boot for the kids bags etc , work car ( everyone thinks its just a silver bmw) , european tourer ( more relaxing for me than my 5 series .. wife thinks the opposite though :banghead: ) etc etc

Think we play down how great the CSL is compared to Pork sometimes

Don't disagree with those points at all. I have however always hankered after Pork since childhood. Now that I'm in a position to buy one its all about which one.

For a long time it was obviously a turbo. Now not so much...

I love my 996 turbo. Around 650hp. 60-100mph in 3.1s in 3rd. It is nuts.

MC

Ah, the 930 turbo. Had a picture fixed to my file when I was at college. Always wanted one then and a few years afterwards, but not interested in owning one anymore. Still brings back memories when I think/see one.

had a 996 turbo, running around 520bhp .. & that was stupid quick ... god knows what over 600bhp must be like :supz:

With hindsight I should have bought a GT3 as they are much more my kind of car / drive , but I needed rear seats for the kids ( these can be retro fitted to a 996 gt3 )

i am on the list for 1 too. Am no.1 at opc cardiff

I've spent several months agonising over this question, to the extent of viewing, test-driving and, in one case (and annoyingly for the seller, no doubt) putting down a deposit on a 997.2 GT3 on the Friday morning only to ask for it back on the Friday afternoon. The conclusions I came to were:

- GT3s were looking over-valued and I thought they might pop.

- If they kept going up in price, I'd be less willing to drive and enjoy it (an issue I have begun to feel with the CSL, in fairness).

- To enjoy the car properly, I'd need to be able to take the family on road trips or it would have to be purely a toy, and would get driven perhaps once a month or so.

I ended up buying a stage 4 GTR with lots of toys from Litchfield for just over half the price of the GT3 I was looking at. Although it's a nice car and will not lose money hand over fist, it's no GT3 in engineering terms and I don't feel that I need to treat it with kid gloves. It's practical for the family, I put the miles on it if I feel like it and, in performance terms (with the LM suspension especially), it would brutalise a GT3 in most circumstances.

BUT

The GT3 is still more desirable and this thread just made me look again at 997.2 GT3 prices. Save for one example, I think I would have made an easy £10k if I had have bought the one I looked at 6 months ago. Tellingly, JZM have hardly any at all for sale, and if there were any out there, they would have them. Oh well, you win some...:whistle: