Greetings from the south of the southern hemisphere.

I haven't had much time for contributing to this excellent forum for the past few years (not much time for anything save for work, really!!...); my career made me move from Europe to South America and travel way more than I cared for.

Now based in Santiago - Chile, I finally had the chance to bring a 911 home again. Started by purchasing an nicely spec'd '09 997S with PDK from the local Porsche dealer last November; official Porsche warranty, 20k Km's, 1 previous owner.

I've never owned a 911 with anything other than a manual transmission, so when I first went to test drive the car, my skepticism about owning an auto transmission 911 - even a PDK - was very high.

The PDK with the Sports Chrono option turned out to be a pleasant surprise; enough to make me break my life-long habit of manual sports cars, and a couple of days after the test drive, my "new-to-me" '09 997S Mk2 was in my garage at home.

It turned out to be a short ownership... a week later, I was back at the dealer to get some floor mats fitted and to re-install the windshield (the former owner had the windshield replaced after road-debris cracked the original one, and the recently replaced unit was making a significant amount of aerodynamic noise from the bottom seal...). As I walked into the new-car showroom while waiting for my car to be checked-in to the service dept., I saw a brand-new 997S, and just out of curiosity got in it, to check out the interior specs Vs. mine. That NEW Car smell made a SIGNIFICANT "dent" in my brain... Again, out of curiosity, I asked the sales rep if they had a black one in stock (mine was a beautiful Atlas Gray, but my heart's always been with black 911's). "Yes" was the reply. Fully spec'd with the options I'd want from the factory (save for the sport exhaust).

I saw "trouble" coming :-) ..... then came the "killer" argument; Prices were being slashed to move the existing stock of 997's and make way for the 991 sales coming this way soon. This made the "delta" between what I'd paid for mine and a new one, significantly less than what I'd originally envisioned.

A few emails back and forth (I'd bought the '09 997S from the same folks, after all...) and a couple of days later, in I drove with my "old" '09 997S, out I drove with my new 2012 997S.

The thought of holding on to the release of the new 991 certainly crossed my mind more than a few times. The cost-difference factor definitely weighed in my decision to go for one of the "last 997s", but equally important was the impression I had (and still have) that the 997MK2 is just a little nearer to being what I'm used to considering a "nineeleven" than the 991. And by no means am I under-estimating the 991; I'm certain it is technically a superior car to the 997 in every respect. But for me, today, the last and most refined and tested version of the 997S is the "nineeleven" I want in my garage.

Brand new baby waiting to be driven home...
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side-by-side with the "old" (!!) '09 997S it just replaced, as I drove it our of the showroom. I welcomed the addition of the 3rd radiator on this new one; a detail I only learned when I lined the cars up next to each other and asked the dealer!
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7 Km's on the odometer as it started off on its first drive
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A few shots after arriving back home;
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A shot after the license plates arrived
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Regards !!

 

That's beautiful. Drive it well!

 

Very nice! Congrats!

 

Nice photos. Thanks for sharing. It is hard to beat the look of a clean black 911. I could almost smell that new leather interior in those photos. This car should make you very happy for a long time. Enjoy!!

 

Absolutely beautiful pictures! Congrats and thanks for sharing!

 

Nicely captured! A new car just has that special look.

 

Just lovely! Enjoy!

Tom

 

Great looking car!

Now add the PSE and replace the center (3rd) muffler with the Sharkwerks by pass pipes and listen to the beautiful sound of the flat-6 engine.

 

Nice pics!

 

Beautiful. I am starting to wonder if my dealership is the only one that "preps" their cars for delivery by washing them with sandpaper. Your paint looks flawless! I wish I could say the same for mine.

 

Thanks all for the comments !!


Precisely.... The one thing I dislike the most about the car is how Deadly Silent all the noise regulations and emission laws have made this 997.2... My hoover at home sounds more interesting than the stock exhaust !!

I like the sound of the PSE but since I don't mind having it "on" all the time, I took the car back to the dealer a scant 3 days after picking it up, and had the chief mechanic at the local Porsche center perform a "PSEctomy" using the stock exhaust. My next step is precisely to order a Sharkwerks bypass pipe to delete the 3rd muffler; which I sort of compare to that 3rd little wheel we used to have on bycicles in our infancy !!

Cheers,

 

:-) You're not alone... I found at least 3 sizable surface scratches on mine right on the showroom floor as I took delivery of it.... and this even though the dealer was "extra careful" in prepping my car since they know me as being finnicky... I wish I had access to my well-known detailer in Portugal; who's great at doing "new-car details". In any case, black cars will be black cars; they only look this way the day they leave the showroom, and the day they get detailed....

btw; fabulous RS 4.0 !

 

PDK cars all have the 3rd radiator. You either like the look or you don't ,I'm hearing.

 

Beautiful shots of a gorgeous looking C2S. Love some of the angles that you took the shots from. The '09's did not have the center radiator so if I ever needed to track my car (which is probabaly never) then I guess an upgrade is due but doubt with the weather in PNW I would ever need one.

 

That is beautiful. I've promised myself that my next car will not be black (I'm tired of maintaining the finish on my jet black E60), but you're right; a black 911 is a gift.