Originally Posted by chuckbdc

Chris Harris armed with the same speculation and questions of the OP, wrung out a very sparsely equipped 991 7 speed about 6 months ago in Excellence. He had sold his 997 S to get a non-S, which he found to be more his idea of a 911 sweet spot- so wanted to see if it still would hit him that way. He did not find the same with the 991, due to the performance distance from the 991S- due to a mix of things, torque and tires being the obvious ones.

To me the 991 platform is so good the differences are all marginal. I like the options route to matching marginal cost to personal value.

Originally Posted by spourreza

last sentence was very well put. Do agree that you need the X51 package to make the "S" a material better performer versus base. Both are sweet cars and it all does depend on value creation. I saw the CH cliping you are talking about. He said he would like to see the base in different tires to make a real assessment.