Love seeing that. Currently doing the daily commute from Newport to Century City in my 6spd 718s. Those .1 GT3s with PDK are looking very very tempting.

 

Only car for two + dog.

Yes, proper winter tires for that season.

Go for it!

 

That's us right now. Do you happen to have a pic of how you secure your dog? I assume in the back somehow? Any sort of covering?

 

I do. Climbing gear (stress rated higher than seatbelts), and the LATCH attachment points kindly left in the GT3s...

And one of those back seat hammocks. I got one with sides and hang it from elastic paddle board leashes so that it won't rip the coat hanger out when or Lab mutt does her Lab thing.... ;-)

Oh, and an extra large Yoga foam block ("Alcantara" grey color) behind passenger seat for instep. Probably more than you asked for....

 

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That's perfect. I wish I still had my Lab around for those types of drives. He would have loved it.

The harness without the dog makes it look like the GT3 Pulp Fiction addition! Ha ha.

 

Haha. Yah.
That was on install. Typically there *is* a dog in the harness.

 

#winning

If that is truly LA and not Newport Beach, even more impressive because our roads up here feel like 3rd world country stuff compared to the glassy smooth as butter roads down in OC, but in either case hats off to you!!

 

These stories are impressive. I have an 11 mile commute from the South Bay to Marina Del Rey which is about 40mins in rush hour traffic. May strongly consider dd the GT3 and park the macan for awhile.

 

I live in L. A.

Am in the O. C. at least twice a week.

I just have to much work up in the South Bay or I'd live in Newport Coast.

The Orange County guys have it made. Nice newer streets, wide, clean, impressive. My favorite areas to drive in the O. C. are around the 73 on and off the freeways. Lots of great little runs. Jamboree at Mexico race speeds all the way to PCH.

The South Bay isn't as bad as L. A. , downtown or the worst area I spend time is Hollywood. All the guys who say they don't need or have FAL haven't spent time navigating 100 year old 2 car wide streets with potholes 6" deep. Or how about those steep one car wide driveway bibs??

There's no attack angle at all.

So yes, daily drive your GT3's. Mine has been done in a good chunk of 405 traffic.

 

Ok. I'll bite.

I actually have a 2007 Lincoln Towncar when I show for sales calls where the clientele is of an age that would get the wrong idea.

And when I have to pull up on a couple of millennial clients, I use the Prius.

Different hats for different folks.

Most of my close clients understand I'm a car guy though so they don't hold it against me.

 

Haha, so you know the struggle.

The Prius is honestly a pretty good idea, covers a few bases.

 

That's actually a very smart way to go. Those e-golfs and i3s are going for a song nowadays - seems like a no brainer for LA streets as well.

 

Gee, I DDed my 2014 and sold it with 63,000 miles 2/2018. Since 5/2018, I've been DDing my 2018 GT3T. I'm around 29,000 miles. It gets winter wheels/tires in November, they come of in March. Unless the snow is still accumulating on the roads, it gets driven. An yes, I live north of the city and we do get snow. I posted a picture, a few years ago, that someone snapped of me driving the 2014 around the beltway and sent it to my sales manager - who is this crazy person?

So, of course you can. The biggest reason not to? The other drivers that think they're qualified to text and drive. I got rear-ended in my 2014 by one of them and I'm ALWAYS afraid it's going to happen again. By this time next year, I plan on having a Macan to DD just to protect the GT3T and let it last 10+ years. I haven't seen one in person, but I sure don't like the 992 pictures...

 

I bought the 991.2 GT3 in March and done about 7000 km so far. I daily drive the heck out of it. Zero track days and absolutely love it. A minimum of 40 miles/65 km every day on the extremely well maintained paved highways to work and back. I never take it into the city with potholes the size of moon craters and congested roads though. It will never go past 1st gear in the bumper to bumper traffic. We pay ridiculous amounts for road tax here in the city I live in (20% of the car cost) and we get utterly crap infrastructure and it goes into the coffers of those in charge. But once out on the open highways with the flat 6 singing to 9k rpm puts a smile every single time. Couldn't be happier.

 

Exactly!!!

Also, some of my favorite pictures are GT3's in the snow.

Since I live in So. Cal. it's not as easy to do but when you think about it this winter, take and post up some more GT3 pics in the snow.

Those are the best!