kiwi 911

Yeah - "would a, could a, should a, gone a" - just like the rest of us.............

You could have added Dave and I and made it 5 interested parties..........

(I mean no disrespect JMc) - more taking the p*ss out of kiwi buyers.

Maybe only 964's are the 'right' cars for NZ Pcar buyers at the moment (except the blue 3.3T on TM, .......and the LHD one)

kiwi 911

So don't sell him.

Just treat the Cayman R as a 3 year propersition.

It's been for sale for yonks - if it is acutally for sale (i.e. the guy is motiviated to meet the market) you could get it for $80K and sell 3 years later for $60K with burger-all maintenance costs and no preventative maintenance needed.

You need to borrow Pete's car for a week - you will slide across to the dark side when it does everything so superior to a 25 year old Pcar. You can keep the 'Character' for Sundays - same as the 3.6T....?

Cheap 'Pcar' motoring and can be used as your daily being PDK.

You can't really pile the K's on Herman anymore for FEAR of affecting his value..........

John McM

Waiting on Macca and Jo to confirm, if they do then we'll look at a BBQ next Saturday for whoever turns up and you can work your magic.

John McM

To be fair to them, I was very clear that no inspections or offers would be looked at while I had the UK offer. In the end they never got a look in as the purchase went through.

peterC2S

Awesome - have recruited Kim to play good cop. Her comment just now "you can't have too many Porsches.." She's a keeper!

O2GO

If NZ retail for a Boxster S starts at about $160 (i think) wouldn't you expect a $30-40k premium for the GT4 version given Porsche marketing set pricing stratfy?

And isn't a GT3 $100k+ more than that? Excuse me if my pricing information is out. I haven't checked for a while apart from some marked pricing on cars parked in Conti's showroom.

O2GO

+1 for a Cayman R provided you can handle the always on sports suspension when using it for touring John. For touring and DD Pete's Cayman would be a better configuration IMO. If you wanted to track it then go for the R but I suspect you have hcars for that job. Just my opinion of course.

John McM

Ok Macca and Jo have confirmed 6:00pm next Saturday for a bbq at our place.

gt38088

just not much discount as we are talking euro delivery here

O2GO

Hmmm.. Where to begin.

The RS60 configuration is interesting. You could have spec'd it up from a standard Boxster S apart from a few aspects which Porsche cleverly included to make it exclusive to the 1960 cars they built.

My nz spect 2007 Boxster S as a base car was better spec'd than this UK import. This RS60 is the basic car purchased from Porsche with no added options (asp far as I can tell). So the base car is inferrior to the nz car (i'm talking UK basic stereo spec, manual control seats, manual control aircon and little things that you get to take for granted in nz new cars being quite up-spec as standard.

Performance wise they seem worlds apart. My old one was 2007 model 3.4l 295hp with 95k on the clock. The RS60 was the end of line for the 987.1 line but being 2008 actually seems to have a few tiny subtle improvements before adding the RS80 features. For example I swear the hood goes up and down faster and the ECU programming is a little different. It could be my imagination though.

So, about the performance....
19" lower profile tyres on light weight alloys seems grippier.mthe car is 10mm lower and has 5mm factory spacers all round to widen the track (actually it's purely for looks).
PASM (Porsche Active Suspension Management) is fantastic over the standard suspension and i would never go back. It would be worth every cent when spec'ing a new car.
Ditto for sports exhaust. Turned on, roof down, power on it sounds stunning.
For our fast runs I turn sports exhaust on, PASM on, drop the top to experience the volume and it is an entirely different car and gets through the twisties I swear much much faster. The exhaust sound is sublime, even if half Macca's GT3 volume which is insanely nice. It has +8hp more but sounds and feels like 30hp more due to the setup. For the first few runs I also turned PSM off (which I always did on the old car) but the last few days have been far closer to the limits, getting a bit loose a couple of times this morning and have left it on to help should I stuff up a corner. It hasn't cut in at all to reduce power, which it often would do on the old car. So The RS60 either has better road contact or the programming iso different when in sport mode.

The car doesn't have the sports chrono package which theoretically would make it even more engaging (programming).

I knew the roads very well vs Macca and was generally keeping up with him using this knowledge to my advantage (pushing hard over crests knowing where the road went etc) plus probably pushing at 90% of the car's ability vs say Macca pushing 60-70% for the GT3. Only that would explain how I could hang on - ha ha.

I do think the merc dude did do me a bit of a favour. However, not knowing you are missing anything is an advantage and the upgrade cost me $20k. I paid top dollar for the car but it is a goodie. However, the enjoyment factor has probably doubled and it has done 50k less mileage plus been driven kindly so I'm overall very happy. I love the deep red "natural leather" interior, red ragtop and the carrera grey colour scheme.

Having the car on holiday vs no car with these amazing roads on my back doorstep would have been hard so being able to secure it has made this summer pretty awesome.

Looking forward to parking up next to your 987.2 Cayman S Pete and looking at the differences :-P

O2GO

Damn, unless the weather craps out badly I'll still be up north and miss this. :-(

Oh, I see. I'm not familiar (yet) with Euro pricing.

kiwi 911

+ 4 (I'll bring the Millerette's)

John McM

Done.

peterC2S

+2 (Our teenagers can stay home and fend for themselves) - you'll get there eventually Paul!

kiwi 911

I'm having too much fun with the little ones..........(they still think I am cool, and almost listen to me)


I miss having your car in the garage, It was nice opening the garage door and looking at your shiny red baron while having a cuppa......

In a moment of weakness I swung past Tradin Post and looked at the silver one for $44K. Luckily the car was a roughie, otherwise was tempted to ask the difference as a trade on my Audi........

JMc - do you have 'Frozen' on your SKY hard drive??