Originally Posted by Whoopsy

For every ED car, when I drop off the cars,

Originally Posted by Whoopsy

For every ED car, when I drop off the cars, I reset the G-meter, the odometer, and also take a pic for reference. So even if those get reset again I will still know.

It's normal for them to put on extra miles, but at most I have seen is 3km. and about 0-2-0.4g on the G-meter.

For the 911R, after drop off, it was loaded onto a transport, I didn't see it personally, but an amateur car photographer hanging around Zuggenhausen took pics of it getting loaded, he found me online after and sent me the pics. Porsche personal had arranged the transport so the likelihood of the driver taking it for a joy ride is nil.

Once the car arrived in port, it took an awfully long time to clear customs. 4 weeks. After which it was loaded onto another transport for the cross country trip from Halifax to Vancouver. I was at the dealership when the transport arrived and unloaded the car, I went to the dash immediately to check. 0.7ish g left and right, 0.8ish g braking and almost 1 g of acceleration, also go an extra 60km or so on the clock.

Shop foreman also found rubber in the rear wheel well during PDI, and the rear tires were a bit worn. Definitely not my doing as during my 2800km drive in Europe, it was on factory loaner winters. The stock tires should be pristine.

It is highly unlikely the Canadian transport driver took it for a spin, they had been a Porsche Canada contractor for a long time and if they do some funny business, they wouldn't be working for Porsche Canada anymore. The same truck driver actually transported my 918 across country few years back, we talked and found that out.

By process of elimination, that leaves the Canadian Customs personal as the only suspect. Porsche own people in Germany have seen any car and every car, they don't need to go 'test drive' customer Porsches. Normal bumps during transports also can't register such a g forces, after all, the car has to be on for the meter to register readings.

Someone at Customs had decided to thrash around my car at the yard or even take it out for joy rides. Can't do anything about it and I will just have to take it up my behind this time.

I thought about raising the issue with Canadian Customs, but I thought better, what if they secretly black listed me and next time I have a car in port, they dissembled it to check for drugs or whatever, which they have full power to do?

Originally Posted by matttheboatman

We are looking like at early November at this point for next available European Delivery Leipzig. I think much later may result in snow and other poor conditions that would not make it as good. I checked and there are still open track days at the Nurburgring and Spa into November. Transversing the passes and traveling through the Alps or Dolomites might be prohibitive.

I've often thought that renting a Porsche might be a better alternative to driving your new, low, and wide Porsche throughout Europe.

Perhaps Porsche could offer a hybrid Euro Delivery that is - "Come See Your Baby" being born off the production line, then give you a rental car to drive around while in Europe. For the track experience for the Leipzig deliveries, that is exactly what they do - they put you in a similar but not your car for doing laps.

Originally Posted by 3-Pedals

Not sure if this has been posted before, but sport auto lapped the ring 7:16. Looks like Cup2R tires, no A/C (lightest weight), mag wheel car. I feel a bit underwhelmed with this time given Sport Auto lapped the ring 7:13 I think with a 2017 C7 Z06 - and that car was manual transmission. 5 year newer car, R tires, wheels that weigh literally half of what comes on that Z06 (cast wheels made in China that weigh 32 lbs - no kidding). Not sure what to think of it. I get the aural pleasure of this car but Porsche held it back in the chassis department.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIitAcEROkY&t=487s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8PbFRVEimg

Originally Posted by James88

Just watched carfection on 4rs again and he reminded me that the new Nurburgring is actually longer than when the Corvette was tested a few years ago. So the 4RS time in the shorter older track is 7:04.511 and the new track length 7:09.300.
That's nearly a full 5 seconds difference. This would put the Vette behind.

Originally Posted by James88

Just watched carfection on 4rs again and he reminded me that the new Nurburgring is actually longer than when the Corvette was tested a few years ago. So the 4RS time in the shorter older track is 7:04.511 and the new track length 7:09.300.
That's nearly a full 5 seconds difference. This would put the Vette behind.

Originally Posted by GrantG

That's very true, however, the track has also been resurfaced and re-profiled and made faster in the intervening years as well (so any exact comparison is impossible).

Originally Posted by 3-Pedals

Where did 7:09 come from?

Originally Posted by ExMB

Originally Posted by James88

Carfection Vid at 13:08 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6GFGnV5cOg

Originally Posted by 3-Pedals

My post was about sports auto. Why are you mixing and matching drivers? Sports auto is somewhat consistent as they a) use the same driver and b) dont “adjust” the cars like Porsche does for the ring. They borrow someone’s car and go for a lap.

Originally Posted by 3-Pedals

Where did 7:09 come from?

Originally Posted by 3-Pedals

Where did 7:09 come from?