Ms.Greta

I was recently on a Porsche Travel Club trip in Germany/Europe and we followed lead Porsche drivers driving the cars hard and fast (i.e. 273 kph on autobahn, redlining around corners on mountain passes, etc.). It was a blast, but if you do the Europeon Delivery program, I assume they would drive according to a break in period which would not be much fun over there. Has anyone done this and what was your experience? Ws it hard on the car they way they toured? How long did it take for your Porsche to arrive after your trip and was it in clean, new condition? Curious to hear about experiences because I want to have a reason to go back!

eclou

European break in is 900km. It has to do more with the driving conditions than anything. After drop off my car returned in 4-5 weeks in great condition. Euro delivery is a must. There are a few threads on good experiences here

Ms.Greta

Thanks for the feedback. I looked for some threads on this but couldn't really find the answers to all my questions so thought I would post. Maybe I didn't look hard enough. Would love to hear current experiences.

eclou

I wrote a report on the gt3 section here

atomic80

I also went on a trip with the Porsche Travel Club last year too. That was a fun experience being able to drive the 997TT through those mountain twisties and down the Autobahn. I know for a fact that you're essentially on your own through the European Delivery program. I just hate the fact that Porsche makes you fork over a small fortune for the privilege of doing so. They really could have put together a better program for those paying customers.

texas911

So they drill the bumpers to put on the front plate?

eclou

yes

Ms.Greta

Great article - sounds like a wonderful trip. Was your car delivered to you in the US soon thereafter and was it cleaned up to new condition after your trip?

eclou

The car was in new condition until it got to my dealership. Then their wash bay monkeys put their scratchy mits on the car and left some surface scratches. I was able to get it better than new after using some Klasse All-In-One followed by P21 pure carnuba.

Ms.Greta

What exactly do you mean that you are on your own? What part do you mean - when you go out driving or the delivery, etc.? Can you expand on that comment? Woud you recommend doing it? (I know several of the Zuffenhausen/Stuttgart based Porsche lead drivers that would do the touring)

tetzlafh

How much is the delivery program?

C.J. Ichiban

I'm euro delivering my gt3 right now, driving solo around europe. if you're scared about putting miles on your car, don't do it, because it's really amazing to hit france, germany, austria, switzerland, liechenstein, and italy, where I'm at now. I've got 10 days or so left. when I get back to the states I'll post most if not all of my 937 and counting photos along with vids, routes, etc.

-c.j.

C.J. Ichiban

oh and the euro delivery cost is offset that our prices are so low in the US that if you actually sold the car while in europe at their asking rate, you'd probably make money because most countries pay at least 10% more than USA due to euro/english pound exchange rates.

Terry Adams

Right http://www.porsche.com/germany/

112,544 euro for a GT3 in Germany. (about $172K)

Don't know how you would go about selling a US spec car in Europe, but that looks tempting.

C.J. Ichiban

yeah it's really tempting actually- but I spoke to one of our continental RL'ers and he said it's mounds of paperwork and hefty tax...maybe on another car one of these days!