Can we get some more yellow tt's down the left side please?
Bugger, I've gone onto the next page now!

 

Oh, I have my PCNA package too.

My comment concerning the 0-60 time of 3.4 sec was with regard to the 480 hp. number.

 

Note the 3.4 time is with the Tip! Does this mean that performance-oriented enthusiasts will be driving the automatic?

 

Dock,

Who knows? I can't wait to see the first road tests by the various magazines to read their impressions and see what they get for times. Should be interesting reading. If they in fact get low 3's...there will be a lot of talk about this car.

 

Gotta be a typo (got the manual and tip times reversed). Just like they went out of their way to call the 480HP "SAE". I'm believing the C&D article saying 473 HP (about 480 DIN). Bogus you've gotta buy sport chrono to get the 500 lb ft overboost. Variable ratio steering mentioned too!

 

It sure could be.

When there were rumors about a higher powered 996 Turbo in the works, PAG was very secretive about the car and the numbers. They intended to formally release the information to the world at one of the auto shows, but PCNA accidentally released the 2002 Turbo owner's manual with statistics for the more powerful car (it was the X50 option) months before PAG wanted.

 

Joolsbourne:

Yes, the "wart" on the dash is part of the Sports Chrono package. It is an analog clock designed for, get this, TRACK TIMES, according to one dealer! Need I refer anyone to the broken tranny thread that has eaten up about 4 pages?

Anyway, I think the car looks kinda cool, but perhaps not as cool as I would have liked. I'm upgrading from my '89 930 so I don't have quite the perspective you 996tt guys have. I'm learning to like it more and more as I wait to see one in person.

 

The ZO6 got absolutly nothing on the 997tt except price and that is and will be a fact not fiction. Last year everybody got their panties wet how the Ford GT is going to blow everything away including the Carr GT (similar what we hear now about the ZO6) but the reality was that the Ford GT is as fast as a Gallardo around the Ring , hardly a performance milestone in my book. But the biggest surprise will come for all those stage xxx super airbox GIAC cars when they are going to run into a 997tt with real hp not ponies measured on a Mustang with a hairblower fan in front.

 

And low RPM torque...

 

If you go here (Porsche link) and pay carefule attention to all of the sub catagories you can choose under every section, it explains ALL of your questions concerning overboost, Tip VS 6 speed, etc
javascript:showSite('http://flash.porsche.com/all/masterwerk/flash/default.aspx','dsl');

If that doesn't work, start here http://www.porsche.com/all/masterwerk/usa.aspx

 

Nope, not a typo. According to Porsche, the Tip is faster 0-60 than the manual.

MASTERWERK