RichAA

+1

Jerrygreene

Ok. Having just (almost shared) a full bottle of b r Cohn rose at dinner outside; completely understand where your coming from. Having been lucky enough to have driven & raced many p cars over the years. My 97 boxster is still a riot to drive , go thru all the gears up and down ; 991 is a super car. Drive it
A lot - just here what your saying.

DerekS

If you think it bores you, rent a Camry for a week.

Al.Fresco

Great point. Nothing like hopping in the 911 after returning from a business trip where I was driving a Camry of Sonata for a week.

ipse dixit

That just means you don't like lobster.

You only tell yourself you enjoy lobster because you think it's special based on its price/lb (which, nowadays, is probably one of the more affordable seafood items).

wkearney99

I had a 68 and a 70, at different times. The torque from the 472 was quite fun. Not quite enough to light up the tires all the time, but at 9mpg you didn't want to do that very often anyway. I still get a chuckle remembering the look the faces of other drivers in a parking garage when I'd heave that beast around the tight corners. ALL THAT CHROME AND STEEL, COMING STRAIGHT AT THEM! Bwaahahahahaah!

Don't miss the tremendous amount of heat that engine would translate through the floor around the transmission. Stop and go traffic to the beach was the worst for it.

The 70 didn't fare well vs a tree. It was less than fun suffering several weeks of a wired jaw.

Mark Dreyer

I drive a Cayenne GTS as my daily, and that makes the 981 Spyder far from boring on the once or twice/week I drive it. And that Cayenne V8.... my oh my.

PJ Cayenne

^ Lucky that's all that happened was a broken jaw. Sad ending to a great car. Did you get your fuzzy dice back?

wkearney99

The tow driver called me "Joie Chitwood", so there's that.

Damned tree didn't even have the decency to die after being struck at 50+ by 2+ tons of steel. Two decades later and it's still standing, albeit with a pretty nasty scar where I smacked into it.

Seems a 6 month run on Atkins doesn't lend your metabolism to handling a Memorial Day Sunday brunch with a few Bloody Marys. 13 hours later I woke up in the hospital with a fractured upper jaw, two chipped molars, bruised ribs and a broken nose and absolutely NO recollection of anything past first getting to the Starboard for the start of Brunch. Miraculously nothing scarred (to say nothing of actually surviving a no-seatbelt crash like that).

Upside was that hobbling into the Dewey Beach police station a week later, bandaged up, bruised and with my mouth wired up like a cage, elicited a fair mount of pity from the town sheriff. "With all that I think you've learned your lesson" and no charges filed. So, yeah for avoiding DUI... and to Hell with diets.

Yes, I salvaged the dice, along with license plates and frame which read "So is the car". Still have 'em around here somewhere...

Every time I get a new car my wife repeatedly states no dice or dancing hula girls on the mirror/dash.

Porscheforever

You need a killer stereo system & maybe its time to look into exotics? 😉

PF

R_Rated

Funny ow that skews your perception.

I travelled ~300K miles a year in y last job and would notice just how great my little A4 quattro seemed as soon as I got back in it at the home airport. I think I kept that car longer because of it.

Was in Seattle a few weeks ago with a Chrysler 300 rental. My parents wanted to drive it and commented on how nice it was and how "sporty" it drove. I couldn't get on board with the sentiment since my frame of reference is my 5 series

Since you can't have a second car and need a back seat - modding is your only alternative since nothing with back seats will be more exciting.

R_Rated

My wife does not like my hula girl in my 911

PJ Cayenne

Wow, lesson learned, I'm sure. You and tree lived, and thankfully your wife has the good sense to make sure you don't put cheesy stuff in your car. Thanks for sharing the story.

cug

When I get into my A4 Quattro after driving the 911 for a while, the A4 feels like I imagine a 30 year old, massive Buick would feel for the first 2 minutes. Then I have adapted again ...

MJBird993

Sorry, did not read all five pages of this thread. I sold my 991 after a year and shortly thereafter bought a 981. Lots of things that I liked better on the 981 (gearbox, handling) but it suffered from the "surge" and the dealer said "they all do that" which meant I was in for a bunch of hassle to get it resolved, if ever, so I got rid of it.

The 991 is a great car, but it just didn't do it for me. I wish I could get my 964 back...