Fair enough. I don't judge people's words by their online personas -- which I usually don't care enough about to actually learn. I judge their words in the context of the discussion, and I think the words "pretend racecar" for GT3 and GT4 could be warranted regardless of who says them, and that a lot of people might use that language. The wing and aggressive splitter can be a tough sell on a streetcar.

 

It's sad that the people talking the most in this post happen to know the least ?

 

Right lets put a few things straight here

(1) . The terms referred to above were used by whoopsy and I directed my comments towards those terms. The GT3 and GT4 are indeed fine sports cars.

(2) . Never ever claimed to be any sort of professional driver - but am a very active amateur at state level (track) and active in road rallying state - national level - all timed and under the national body (using 2 different vehicles)

You are really bizarre, words fail me - and in regard to the car I was very clear about this - I was talking about a different type of vehicle that could be a cross over entry vehicle to motorsport. I was referencing this to specific regulations. One of the reasons I think this is a good idea is a vehicle of this type could be a good entry level vehicle for a lot of people in to real timed motorsport - a very good base car.

Finally there is a whole world of motorsport out there - in different countries run under different governing bodies.

 

 

Well spoken !

 

...........and what does that mean, there is a whole world out there beyond the US. A whole world of motorsport beyond Porsche. A whole range of competitions run at many levels that have different regs and supp regs. The track is not the be all and end all of motorsport, it is one of many disciplines. Even on track thats the case e.g. W2W, regularity, sprints, time attack, P2P that includes track and road combined plus even cross over stuff like traditional rally cross (not GRC).

Most importantly without grassroots motorsports, and without people coming through there will be even less professional motorsport. By grassroots I mean genuine entry level timed motorsport (- not DE type stuff) and because of this - less business for you.

 

 

Fine by me - note the whole discussion was centred around the 718GT4 . Also there was some stuff clearly taken out of context that needed to be straightened out.

Back to normal programming its a 4L and PDK will be offered.

 

Correct

 

 

Well frankly I do, when you take something out of context and spin it a certain way. So lets try and keep it civil.

So - 4l with PDK offered, car will be formally released in Geneva 7th to 12th March (at Palexpo) with some level of pre-release info flowing before then.

Plenty of interesting discussions around the 718 GT4 - e.g. discussion around variants and potential variants or even concepts given there is no new news and there isn't going to be anything until the car is released other than some pre-release teasers as always.

 

 

Not GT4 specific, but anyone has the basic air-conditioning? I want to go as light as possible with extra's. Using my 968 has learned me that I can very well do without most of the modern gadgetry that came with my loaded 981 dealer demo car. Hence, I am wondering if the automated dual-zone airco is a must @ about 830€. I cannot even find a picture of the basic airco!