Porsche

1. Everyone bickering, meanwhile a GT2 owner is among us. True enthusiasts would be peppering clearthinker with questions about how awesome it would be to have a GT2.
2. As you probably know, a car is not classically a great environment for fidelity, but the modern Porsche Bose systems are better than the stock system in any other car I have. The Burmester is better, for sure, but it depreciates at twice the rate of the rest of the car. If you are an audiophile it's "worth it" but not by much. Just temper your expectations and you will be happy. 
3. The Macan and Cayenne are wonderful cars but physics is cruel and at the end of the day you manage to accelerate a little faster with less roll on the twisties than you would in a RAV4 or 4Runner. All for the price of steeper depreciation and $500 oil changes. IMO a Panamera Turbo is "worth it" but a Cayenne/Macan (even a Turbo or GTS) isn't. 
4. I'd love to daily a GT3 Touring but lol those are at the epicenter of the post-COVID-cool-car boomlet. Look at the trends on Bring A Trailer. 
5. The GT4 is clearly the best bang for the buck (from a driver's perspective) in the last half-decade of Porsches. Ps01529 is onto something.



Just my opinions.  Which are all correct.

My Porsche driving experience goes back to the one I drove while in college, having graduated in ’66. I’ll let you do the math. It was a mildly rusted 356b Speedster that had a blown engine that was replaced with a VW motor.

Driving the rural back roads of Vermont and New Hampshire in something so light and tossable is more memorable than anything I can say I’ve experience in my current 993C2 with all it’s RS goodies. The point is Porsches are not and never have been about horsepower or acceleration but rather the driving experience.

The point is Porsches are not and never have been about horsepower or acceleration but rather the driving experience.

There is no substitute.    


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I like Porsches. Had two of them, among many Italian exotics. One bonus of the Porsche was that it didn't attract the kind of attention that some of the Italian cars did. The GT2 I had was from the 996 platform, which in my estimation, fell short in a number of ways having nothing to do with performance, as such. I had the club sport (or whatever they call those options) installed after the car arrived; roll bar, sports seats, multipoint harnesses, different exhaust, etc. Thing was rigid as hell. I used to commute to NYC in it occasionally. 
The other was a late 993 c4 cabrio which was a nice GT car but not as light or tossable as the smaller, early 911.
They make the best production cars on the road in my estimation. 
Now that I'm in Texas, I see far fewer exotics (the occasional baby Lambo or current Ferrari) but lots of good ol' 'Merican iron. Some of these are survivor cars- not worth the money to restore but cool as hell. 
I'm kind of out of the car thing, at least for now. We were coming back from ranch country up near the Oklahoma border yesterday and it was about 104F on Interstate 35. I just couldn't imagine an open top car in that kind of heat. 
Oh, I know purists like hardtops for rigidity and safety, but my joy was doing the B roads in an open car. The last "serious" car I had was a '20s era open top boat tailed speedster. It was rare and so were parts. I bought it as a cheaper alternative to a Bentley 3/4.5 "special" but by the time I was done sorting it, I coulda had the early Bentley. 
I love all automobiles from a sort of design/engineering standpoint- Ramblers, micro-cars, the French art-deco bodied stuff from the '30s. It's all good. Until you have to start restoring one. 
I think one of the most beautiful post war cars made was the BMW 3.0CS. Gorgeous. Another car that is probably not worth the expense of restoring, but back in the day, man, that would have been a great car to own (especially if you lived in Germany). 
At one point, I had a '69 MB 6.3 liter. It was like a baby 600. Very cool sedan with a big motor, oligarch interior fittings, adjustable suspension. Lots of things to go wrong. Or those '70s era Aston Martin Lagonda limo things. Talk about a money pit. But cool in a quirky way. 
Apologies for the ramble....
Carry on. 

996 GT2 is a lot of car. Porsche genius has since figured out how to get even more performance while still being plenty comfortable for daily driving. But I was in a 996 with M030 (I think it was) and yeah that is one stiff unforgiving ride.