2011 GT3 -- Rear license plate
02-25-2011, 10:37 AM
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2011 GT3 -- Rear license plate
After years of air-cooled 911s, I recently pulled the trigger on a 2011 GT3 -- Guards Red/Black. I'm still breaking it in, but am just floored with the precision of the steering, sound, handling (without even driving hard). Got a DE scheduled soon, so need a long trip this weekend to put miles on it. Just an unbelievable car -- I didn't imagine a car could come so close to perfection. I may have lost my air-cooled religion...Will be posting 964 parts for sale soon.
So, that is context (plus the college fund level msrp) for my exceedingly mundane and uninteresting question. The car came with a rear license plate backing and a few screws. Unlike my X5, there are no metal anchors already in the bumper for the screws. Question -- is Porsche really proposing that I screw into the paint/bumper? I don't see a way around it, but just seems wrong, like an afterthought.
So, that is context (plus the college fund level msrp) for my exceedingly mundane and uninteresting question. The car came with a rear license plate backing and a few screws. Unlike my X5, there are no metal anchors already in the bumper for the screws. Question -- is Porsche really proposing that I screw into the paint/bumper? I don't see a way around it, but just seems wrong, like an afterthought.
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02-25-2011, 11:53 AM
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I will be at the DE next weekend at Barber, so I need to put several hundred miles on it over the next week. Tomorrow I plan to be out in the car all day, driving out in the country. Will post pics once soon.
02-25-2011, 03:16 PM
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... The car came with a rear license plate backing and a few screws. Unlike my X5, there are no metal anchors already in the bumper for the screws. Question -- is Porsche really proposing that I screw into the paint/bumper? I don't see a way around it, but just seems wrong, like an afterthought.
Interesting that you consider the steering wheel precise coming from a water-cooled car. Most journos write that the new steering is numb. What do they know?
02-26-2011, 12:12 AM
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I find the steering to have less feedback than my RSA did, but it seems more precise -- overall, no worse, just different (that's saying a lot for a new car). I'm still amazed that a car with limits as high as this is so much fun at 45mph.
Will post pics after waxing and figuring out my wife's camera.
Will post pics after waxing and figuring out my wife's camera.