Porsch

thank you, now i have another reason to be happy i always go manual

agree, i'd never want to DD my gt3.

It'sGoTime

Valid point, but in my experience, happy wife = happy life.

meaker

Really depends on what you want from a 911. I went from a 997tt and have no regrets but I wanted a NA car again and love the more raw feel.

Tosilog

I had a 2013 991 CS that I tracked. I replaced that with a 2015 991.1 GT3 and tracked that as well and got 5 seconds better lap time without even trying hard. Same track, same driver. However, I couldn't daily the GT3 due to the roads in the Northeast. I now have an RS. IT is a slippery slope for sure

wmond

I did the upgrade. Had a 2006 and then a 2014 C2S, now a 2018 .2 GT3 (pdk). Love it, daily driveable, no second thoughts. And I'll say that hopping in the GT3 to run to the store, or drop someone off at a friend house or school, or whatever, comes along with a real sense of gravitas, I mean it's an event to drive that car, something I look forward too every day even though I don't drive it every day (but I did get snow tires, this car is not here to sit for 4 months of the year). It is a more raw experience on the street, not race car raw, but also not necessarily a simple street car either. It's fun to see a group of kids on the sidewalk pointing and snapping pictures (like i remember doing as a kid, without the camera-phones).

I plan to track it about 3 DE events per year (was doing 2x/yr with the 2014 for the last few years). Only downside is the no back seat thing, but my kids are too big to fit in the back (at least 1 of them is now, so can't fit a family of 4, or so my reasoning goes). Good luck with your journey. PM me if you want any more details. End of the day car is usable, driveable every day, bullet proof, trackable, and knows how to make an entrance.

phow

MJG911

June of 2015 I bought my first 911, a 2012 991 C2S on the day the same day we took delivery of my wife's ordered Cayenne Diesel. Since then, I've had a 13 C2S, GT4 and now a GT3. She still has the Cayenne.

itrsteve

Up until delivery day my wife assumed our big (for us) GT3 purchase was a three-pedal car. Once she found out that it wasn't she said "F*** yes" and even did some redline pulls on the way home. It really changed her attitude to the car as being an experience that we could share together versus her riding shotgun like normal.

Plus, PDK is pretty damn awesome. You won't be disappointed.

PhilZJ

Personally, I don't like the "I can do what I want with my money" I want my wife and I to be on the same page in regards with our goals (house, kids schools, cars, vacation/holidays, retirement plan, etc) .

Anyways, moving to the topic, my father has a 2012 Carrera S he bought new fairly early on. It's well equipped and it was the first Porsche I sat in and also the first one I drove. I always was a car guy, but this really added some urgency to my desire of owning a 'toy'. Driving it, well you know how it is, but to me the PDK shifts felt telepathic, the engine note changing with the lightest throttle modulation, I loved it. Not long after my cousin got a 997.2 GT3. That, I never drove, he offered many times and I declined. But sitting in it and riding around, I loved how raw it felt. Fast forward several years, and with my love for cars growing strong and stronger, I decided ok now is the time. So, I went to the local Porsche dealership and I test drove a 991.2 manual Carrera S. Honestly, I was disappointed, from inside, the engine note didn't change like it does on my dad's 991.1 with throttle movement and the manual transmission didn't add any magic to the formula, I missed the PDK being able to read my mind and amazing me with every gear change. (Also, my wife had no interest in a PDK, if we were getting a 'toy' it was to be a manual.) So here I am today, with a 991.2 GT3 manual with bucket seats. I absolutely love this thing, and if I couldn't get a GT3, I wouldn't have bought a 991.2 Carrera S. It's great car, it felt like it would be a great daily driver. But that's not what I was in the market for. I was buying a toy, I needed to feel the sense of occasion, I wanted the seat vibrating, I didn't mind the cumbersome ingress / egress from the vehicle. And the 6spd manual feel is fantastic... I find that I drive the GT3 slower on the roads than my daily driver, because I don't want to get to my destination, I want to spend more time in the car, I don't mind the red light, that means a couple of downshifts to engine brake and then a few upshifts once it turns green... but then when the road is clear and there is a long gap to the car ahead of me... both the devil and the angel over my shoulder whisper "Floor it".

So, after that paragraph of rambling, I didn't "upgrade" to a GT3, this is the first Porsche I own, but having spent some time in a 991.1 CS and plenty time in a 991.2 GT3, both are fantastic, but the GT3 feels more special and with the roads being fairly smooth in Florida, it's really not bad to drive around daily. I nailed a deer with my daily and while that was getting repaired I drove the GT3 and it was great, except I was worried about a repeat with the deer and then I really would be upset. To me though, 991.2 CS -> 991.2 GT3 is a bigger upgrade than 991.1 CS to a 991.2 GT3.
I am fortunate that the gt3RS doesn't come in a manual, because I would be back in the fold trying to get one of those