991 for a week

scottc · 02-13-2012, 02:56 PM

Dealer contacted me today and asked if I would like to borrow a 991 for the week, well of course I took them up on the offer

Picked it up tonight and it's very nice, sounds awesome!!!! Will post a review and a few photos in the next couple of days

peterg1965 · 02-13-2012, 03:25 PM

A week!!! You lucky get!!

Photos required, plenty of them!

rogerxp · 02-13-2012, 04:27 PM

I'll PM you my mobile Scott - please pass it on.

magic77 · 02-13-2012, 04:33 PM

how in the world cant see a surrey dealer doing that

dxb335d · 02-13-2012, 04:33 PM

Are you the same ScottC I met at a meet like 4 years ago who then went AWOL for ages?! He had a E90 330i at the time!

zltm089 · 02-13-2012, 05:36 PM

lucky you!!!...

simples · 02-14-2012, 07:36 AM

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Originally Posted by dxb335d

Are you the same ScottC I met at a meet like 4 years ago who then went AWOL for ages?! He had a E90 330i at the time!

u two keep your dogging habits private pls..

ta

Baby Dave · 02-14-2012, 07:39 AM

Lucky git

scottc · 02-14-2012, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by dxb335d

Are you the same ScottC I met at a meet like 4 years ago who then went AWOL for ages?! He had a E90 330i at the time!

Lol yes mate that was me, I was still around just had personal stuff going on.

I get on well with my sales guy and I have bought 2 cars off him and my friend had one as well so he knows I do t him mess him about.

It's a great car but it does feel like its a bit artificial if that makes sense. It's much more of a gt compared with the 997, its damped so well and its on rails but for me there is something missing. I love my 997 and I am not sure the 991 would be for me.

Will do a proper write over the weekend :-)

Roger no pm ;-)

rogerxp · 02-14-2012, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by scottc

Roger no pm ;-)

If I thought it would actually result in a 991 for a week you'd have received one in a shot

SteveC · 02-15-2012, 01:28 AM

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Originally Posted by scottc

Lol yes mate that was me, I was still around just had personal stuff going on.

I get on well with my sales guy and I have bought 2 cars off him and my friend had one as well so he knows I do t him mess him about.

It's a great car but it does feel like its a bit artificial if that makes sense. It's much more of a gt compared with the 997, its damped so well and its on rails but for me there is something missing. I love my 997 and I am not sure the 991 would be for me.

Will do a proper write over the weekend :-)

Roger no pm ;-)

Don't you think that maybe its just that the 991 has way higher limits which you simply haven't managed to explore yet?

My experience with new models of 'sports vehicles' that are considerably better than their predecessors is that they need serious amounts of time to explore the extended capabilities. In otherwords, everything that felt slightly hairy and involving in the old model now feels controlled and fully within the new car's limits. But possibly the thrill and involvement is still there, just hiding a lot higher up the scale.
James May made an interesting point on Top Gear that modern 'sports' cars need to be driven at extremely high speeds to get the nerve tingling enjoyment that is available in lesser vehicles at far lower speeds. Personally I don't agree that its fun to drive a poor handling car on the limit, but the point with the 991 is that the limits have been moved and judging by what I read, by a large margin.
I'm looking forward to reading your more extensive write-up. Cheers!

dxb335d · 02-15-2012, 08:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scottc

Lol yes mate that was me, I was still around just had personal stuff going on.

I get on well with my sales guy and I have bought 2 cars off him and my friend had one as well so he knows I do t him mess him about.

It's a great car but it does feel like its a bit artificial if that makes sense. It's much more of a gt compared with the 997, its damped so well and its on rails but for me there is something missing. I love my 997 and I am not sure the 991 would be for me.

Will do a proper write over the weekend :-)

Roger no pm ;-)

Hi Scott, great to hear everything is ok now mate!!

LOook forward to the review!!!

scottc · 02-15-2012, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveC

Quote:

Originally Posted by scottc

Lol yes mate that was me, I was still around just had personal stuff going on.

I get on well with my sales guy and I have bought 2 cars off him and my friend had one as well so he knows I do t him mess him about.

It's a great car but it does feel like its a bit artificial if that makes sense. It's much more of a gt compared with the 997, its damped so well and its on rails but for me there is something missing. I love my 997 and I am not sure the 991 would be for me.

Will do a proper write over the weekend :-)

Roger no pm ;-)

Don't you think that maybe its just that the 991 has way higher limits which you simply haven't managed to explore yet?

My experience with new models of 'sports vehicles' that are considerably better than their predecessors is that they need serious amounts of time to explore the extended capabilities. In otherwords, everything that felt slightly hairy and involving in the old model now feels controlled and fully within the new car's limits. But possibly the thrill and involvement is still there, just hiding a lot higher up the scale.
James May made an interesting point on Top Gear that modern 'sports' cars need to be driven at extremely high speeds to get the nerve tingling enjoyment that is available in lesser vehicles at far lower speeds. Personally I don't agree that its fun to drive a poor handling car on the limit, but the point with the 991 is that the limits have been moved and judging by what I read, by a large margin.
I'm looking forward to reading your more extensive write-up. Cheers!

I do see where you are coming from and you may be right, you can drive it much faster on the same roads and maybe that's what I am not sure of. There is no doubt that it's way more refined as I took it to Bristol today and it was really good much quieter, less road and wind noise.

Will try and get pics uploaded

scottc · 02-15-2012, 04:01 PM

A couple of photos from my phone

peterg1965 · 02-15-2012, 04:11 PM

Nice one Scott, very tasty. Can't believe hey have given you the keys or a week! Is this Porsche GB, and family connections?

Oh, and some inside shots please

scottc · 02-15-2012, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by peterg1965

Nice one Scott, very tasty. Can't believe hey have given you the keys or a week! Is this Porsche GB, and family connections?

Oh, and some inside shots please

It's my dealer Peter, I think the family thing helps but it's really to help the sales guy as my work is a good place to park it.

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