Toby Pennycuff

I came across Jeff Lee this past Thursday as he was moving a Cobalt Blue Cayenne S around close to work. Jeff is Park Place's Master Porsche Technician and we had a chance to chat. He had just come back from Carrera GT training in Atlanta and was very excited as Ken Schnitzer's car (he is the Park Place owner) was due in any time.

Well, I visited the dealership today to check on some other items and found out that Mr. Schnitzer's car arrived at DFW (they fly them over from Germany on a 747-300 Combi - a combination passenger-freighter aircraft. I suspect it was Lufthansa!) YESTERDAY!

I called Jeff and he was in and working on the car and invited me over to have a look. DAMN IT..... I didn't have my camera with me. Too bad, because I stopped by and oggled the car up close and personal for about 45 minutes.

It is DROP DEAD GORGEOUS!

This car (number 17) is Silver with the Terra Cota interior. I was simply dumbfounded! The car has, at best, a 3 inch front clearance and I have never seen so much carbon fiber in my life. Engine compartment was open and the pieces you can see are simply marvelous pieces of machining and casting. Interior is really very nice and the pedal set is an amazing piece of craftsmanship. Jeff drove the training car and said it is really something to drive. He also noted that they had just received their tools for the car - upwards of $50,000 worth of specialized tools!

The car is supposed to make it to the showroom floor sometime early next week (they are working on a couple of PDI items), so once it gets there, I'll get some pictures for posting.

All I can say is .......... WOW!!!!

Toby

RJT

At best three inch clearance??? I guess we can't buy one then.... we wouldn't be able to get it down our driveway!!!

Darn it Toby!!! As you know we were supposed to be in Dallas today. I guess I blew our chance to see it

JoAnne

Toby Pennycuff

I swear.... if you tried to put your hand in a vertical position between the ground and the lower lip of the front spoiler, you could just barely get it in there. There are three ducts in the front.... one on each side and a HUGE intake in the middle. The side ducts are for brake cooling and the center intake is for the radiator. Apparently, the radiator lays in the front area much like the old Corvette radiators fit - raked at a pretty sharp angle. Jeff said that this was ONE BIG RADIATOR! There is a definitive air path under the car to diffuse air after passing through the radiator. The brake cooling air on either side is diffused through the side vents at the front of each door. When you open the engine compartment, you will see an air snorkel on either side. These are air intakes for the rear brakes! And Porsche has built a positive air seal where the snorkel mates to the engine cowling to insure that the air only enters through the cowl.

The magnesium wheels are absoultely beautiful! And the tires on the rear are 345/30/20's! When you look at the rear brake caliper, you will see what looks like a scraper at the 7 o'clock position on the rotor. I asked what it was, and damned if it's not the parking brake! It's the same assembly used on the Enzo, and the two pads for the parking brake cost more than the real brake pads! Really cool.

One thing I did not realize when looking at the interior pictures is that the console where the shifter is located does not got to the floor. There is open space below the console and that's where you insert your CD for the Online Pro. BTW, the radio in the C-GT is the Becker Online Pro. It's a radio/nav/cd/MP3/tri-band GSM phone unit that supports MOST. (My dream radio for my Cayenne!)

This is SUCH A COOL CAR!

TBP

GOBOGIE

Wipes drew off mouth...

mspiegle

Damn! That better be a damn good parking brake.

W8MM

W8MM

Overhead view of Parking Brake (at bottom of pic)

ben in lj

It has 3 1/2" of clearance.

And, I think it's the most beautifully supercar on the market - by far. The car is just stunning in the flesh.

Toby, the car has 5 radiators that I counted. One (behind the passenger door) for the gearbox, one (behind the driver door) for something, two small ones on each side of the front bumper and a huge one in the bottom of the trunk up front.

FWIW, Porsche claims to have reduced unsprung weight by 50% with the brakes (rotors are only 10 lbs each!) and 25% with the magnesium wheels. A 75% reduction in unsprung weight is simply staggering. However, it's not nearly as staggering as the NINETY % reduction in rotational mass they've achieved in the drivetrain!

Toby Pennycuff

Now if only I can figure out some place to get them hosted. It's about 126MB worth of pics. Collection is a combination of pictures from a training session in Atlanta, arrival/unloading of the car here in Dallas and my photo op session this afternoon. The car is headed to the showroom floor tomorrow morning!

Can anyone (JoAnne) say ROAD TRIP!

Toby Pennycuff

Here is a sample of some of the pictures I have! You'll have to scroll down a bit... Sorry.

Enjoy!

I have about 145 more, so I need to finds a way to share some of these pictures. Any one have any space available?

Les Quam

Ben,
We all will be real interested when Porsche allows these cars to be road tested and timed again. They seem to have prevented any further testing after Autocar magazine came up with poor performance numbers. It may be all this technology is wasted on anyone other than a pro driver on a large track. This car is so close to an actual race car it may take a real race driver to get all of it's potential.

Further Ford through motor trend TV seems to be saying that their Ford GT will be 550 HP. Motor Trend TV reported that the production Ford GT at 550 HP did the quarter mile at 11.6 at 128 MPH. Which is identical to what Autocar got for the CGT for 300,000 American dollars less than the cost of a CGT.

My thoughts are that the CGT is all everyone says it is. But no matter how much I look at both sides of this issue. I believe the car is ridiculously over priced.

RJT

Les,
Anything that 'goes thru' Motor Trend Magazine or TV has to be taken with a grain of salt...... Just my 2 cents worth......

JoAnne

PS: I do agree that the car is way too expensive, new technology or not....

ben in lj

maybe $440k isn't too expensive to some:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...&category=6058

and

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...&category=6058

Randy V

Man, that's got to be alien technology!

Difference Engine

Both of these guys are way off in their arrival estimates. According to PCNA, when a "June Production" slot is given, it will start production in June, and can take 3 months to complete the car. Plus shipping. So according to PCNA's training, a june production car wouldn't arrive until September/October.

Our first one is a July build, and we're planning on seeing it in November/December.