New GT3 RS - does it really make sense?
04-02-2009, 09:24 AM
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Thanks for the nice words, Wayward.
Anyway, one other note comes to mind: there is also one very funny paradox with practically any car - the more money you invest into it in terms of tuning it up to your preference, the more money you lose, because you are never ever going to get the money back. When a car is as good as a GT3/RS, you better know for sure that when you get started, you won´t be expecting the next owner to pay it back in the selling price.
In fact, the car that will be most easily sold on will be the car which is completely virgin. Just putting in different pads will wipe off a few tens of percent of potential buyers! And a heavily tuned car will have maybe a few buyers in the entire country, considering that the price should be at least fair...
Anyway, one other note comes to mind: there is also one very funny paradox with practically any car - the more money you invest into it in terms of tuning it up to your preference, the more money you lose, because you are never ever going to get the money back. When a car is as good as a GT3/RS, you better know for sure that when you get started, you won´t be expecting the next owner to pay it back in the selling price.
In fact, the car that will be most easily sold on will be the car which is completely virgin. Just putting in different pads will wipe off a few tens of percent of potential buyers! And a heavily tuned car will have maybe a few buyers in the entire country, considering that the price should be at least fair...
04-02-2009, 12:57 PM
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Hello everyone! I am a newbie here. This thread caught my attention because I am also planning to buy my first and maybe last porsche. I was initially leaning towards getting the 997.2 gt3, but with the recent spy pictures of the mk2 RS spotted I am split in deciding which to get. I have read in some magazine articles that the RS has lesser sound proofing materials inside. To those who have an RS or have rode in an RS, does the lesser sound proofing inside make the interior a whole lot noisier than a regular gt3? Does the RS have a lower ground clearance than the gt3?
04-02-2009, 03:02 PM
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it makes NO sense to buy RS over GT3, i know i have both
but RS is RS. and it's YOUR money.
i hear ppl talk of cup car all the time.
if you dont do 20+ days a year, why cup. such a waste. but again YOUR money
if you do 20+ days a year, that's about $10k just on slicks. (2000/set for 4 days)
so be prepared for the cost.
also, if you drive a cup even at 50% of it's capability, you will hit traffic literally every other turn on every track you grace. that's not very fun. now if you race, then it's different. but then if you raced, you wont be buying RS.
and you have to trailer the cup.
so most rational is GT3.
most emotional is RS
most sensible and $ for racers: cup
for the truly insane, buy all three.
if you find my post strange, read it again, it will eventually make sense.
but RS is RS. and it's YOUR money.
i hear ppl talk of cup car all the time.
if you dont do 20+ days a year, why cup. such a waste. but again YOUR money
if you do 20+ days a year, that's about $10k just on slicks. (2000/set for 4 days)
so be prepared for the cost.
also, if you drive a cup even at 50% of it's capability, you will hit traffic literally every other turn on every track you grace. that's not very fun. now if you race, then it's different. but then if you raced, you wont be buying RS.
and you have to trailer the cup.
so most rational is GT3.
most emotional is RS
most sensible and $ for racers: cup
for the truly insane, buy all three.
if you find my post strange, read it again, it will eventually make sense.
emo=RS. I'm on that step now I think.
got the GT3. its either staying a street car or going full guts race car.
04-02-2009, 09:08 PM
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04-02-2009, 09:10 PM
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2. if you really will keep it, the RS is better buy. it may be 20-30k more, but if you keep it 30-40 years, and amortize the 20-30k difference over the time you keep it, it's not much $... but will you keep it forever?
04-03-2009, 12:24 AM
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lawjdc, I saw it somewhere posted in this forum too. MJSpeed just posted the picture in this thread so there you go.
mooty, thanks again for answering my questions. I probably will keep the car for a long time, but I dunno maybe I might end up changing my mind about it in the long term just like you said about your experience. Ok, so for now it seems like RS is the way to go hahaha!
mooty, thanks again for answering my questions. I probably will keep the car for a long time, but I dunno maybe I might end up changing my mind about it in the long term just like you said about your experience. Ok, so for now it seems like RS is the way to go hahaha!
04-03-2009, 03:39 AM
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