Horsepower for S versions
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Buying a new car is easy...you write the check and you drive away and you don't worry if anything breaks.
Buying a used car is like dancing with the devil...you might come out on top or you might not.
I'm a stingy old guy who spent too much on cars when I was young and now has to have his dance on a tighter budget. I got so guilty looking at the money I frittered away between the 996 and 997, not to mention the GTI, that I found Jesus and decided to sell a couple of watches and my Picasso lithographs just to put some fat back in the savings account.
The only thing that keeps me sane is that I'm not perfect so why should the car be.
Buying a used car is like dancing with the devil...you might come out on top or you might not.
I'm a stingy old guy who spent too much on cars when I was young and now has to have his dance on a tighter budget. I got so guilty looking at the money I frittered away between the 996 and 997, not to mention the GTI, that I found Jesus and decided to sell a couple of watches and my Picasso lithographs just to put some fat back in the savings account.
The only thing that keeps me sane is that I'm not perfect so why should the car be.
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Yup, all stingy old guys buy a 996, dump it 8 months later, buy a 997, and (we have to see how this plays out)...
On the plus side, congrats on offloading some timepieces. I assume the Venezuelan Rolex made the cut? I'd hate to see you part with something that has been such a rich source of material for RL. OK, by that, I mean me.
Good luck with the 997!
On the plus side, congrats on offloading some timepieces. I assume the Venezuelan Rolex made the cut? I'd hate to see you part with something that has been such a rich source of material for RL. OK, by that, I mean me.
Good luck with the 997!
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For the record I really liked the 996. If I had the money and space to keep a third car I would have never gotten rid of it. That said, the 997's Tiptronic is proving very comfortable in town, as is the softer base suspension setting on the disintegrating Los Angeles streets.
No buyers yet on the watches (keeping the Serpico Y Laino).
No buyers yet on the watches (keeping the Serpico Y Laino).
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I reserve the right to bust on you later for the tip, but I've spent more than my fair share of days stuck in LA traffic...one car I used to own had a really stiff clutch, and my left leg would sometimes wind up shaking after several hours in stop-and-go...
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The Tip shifts as fast as I would on a good day. It may not make the change at the exact nano-second that I would, but I think I'll learn to how to compensate. The softer base suspension setting is just fine on the crap they call streets.
I am proud of the condition I left the 996 in. I feel to that extent my ownership did the car justice. The 997 reminds me more of my GTI, and maybe that says as much about me as the car.
