papps
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After owning and loving my R26 RenaultSport (see R26 - Standard to Track for project) for almost 3 years, I sold up in May and started the look for another car......
I was done with track driving (saw a few mates have crashes), realised I was hooked on chasing 0.5 seconds and burning ££ in the process, the car wasn't as usable and I just fancied something with a better build quality and more road friendly.
Started off initially considering a 2008 or so Mini Cooper JCW - they looked ok sytle wise to me, they were at a decent price point, they'd certainly have a nicer build than the renault and be a decent driving experience - the more I researched the engines, the dreaded timing chain rattle and how much oil they burn every 1k I decided not for me...
The summer kind of comes and goes, my Dad's in Greece for months, I have my old car I gave him, I kind of stopped looking.
Sept time and I miss having a performance car really badly so it was time to turn it up.
Then it was the turn of the RS250 to take my fancy...they really started depreciating heavily, really heavily and you could pick up an FF CUP with leather recaros for like 9.5k, I very very nearly bought an OG one, the thing that put me off was it being too similar an experience to the R26.
Next came Scoobies, then you're taking bigger money - 15k or so. My bro is part of the scoob fraternity and would send me ad's etc, but it was the running costs, the tax, running a 400hp forged scoob wouldn't be cheap and it didn't really 'do it' for me.
So once I had increased the budget and saw other options, I just said fuck it, I want a porsche - I've wanted a 987 for year (drove a couple 4 years ago) and if I don't do it now I may never do it.....
So looked at many boxters, they're £ for £ much better value than the caymans, they're much easier to source, and they tend to be lower mileage as well...but they're not the dream....ever since I saw the Cayman in 2005 its been the dream so I focused more on them....
Looked for MONTHS, a good one would come up, then it would be gone within 24 hours, the ones that didn't look so good would be around for weeks - its a small strange market with so many of the cars concentrated within the home counties which isn't ideal for me>
But with it becoming winter, it was a great time to buy and my patience paid off.
It was top top end of budget (ie way above what I wanted to spend) but it was a car sold by a local porsche mechanic who now also sells a very small amount of porsche's - it was ULTRA low mileage, and literally is like brand new inside.
The colour wouldn't be my choice ( I would of preferred a guards red, cobalt blue etc) and didn't have all the options I wanted, but its a 2nd hand car, it ticked so many of the boxes that 2 days before my birthday I put a deposit down on this beauty...and collected it a week later.
I was done with track driving (saw a few mates have crashes), realised I was hooked on chasing 0.5 seconds and burning ££ in the process, the car wasn't as usable and I just fancied something with a better build quality and more road friendly.
Started off initially considering a 2008 or so Mini Cooper JCW - they looked ok sytle wise to me, they were at a decent price point, they'd certainly have a nicer build than the renault and be a decent driving experience - the more I researched the engines, the dreaded timing chain rattle and how much oil they burn every 1k I decided not for me...
The summer kind of comes and goes, my Dad's in Greece for months, I have my old car I gave him, I kind of stopped looking.
Sept time and I miss having a performance car really badly so it was time to turn it up.
Then it was the turn of the RS250 to take my fancy...they really started depreciating heavily, really heavily and you could pick up an FF CUP with leather recaros for like 9.5k, I very very nearly bought an OG one, the thing that put me off was it being too similar an experience to the R26.
Next came Scoobies, then you're taking bigger money - 15k or so. My bro is part of the scoob fraternity and would send me ad's etc, but it was the running costs, the tax, running a 400hp forged scoob wouldn't be cheap and it didn't really 'do it' for me.
So once I had increased the budget and saw other options, I just said fuck it, I want a porsche - I've wanted a 987 for year (drove a couple 4 years ago) and if I don't do it now I may never do it.....
So looked at many boxters, they're £ for £ much better value than the caymans, they're much easier to source, and they tend to be lower mileage as well...but they're not the dream....ever since I saw the Cayman in 2005 its been the dream so I focused more on them....
Looked for MONTHS, a good one would come up, then it would be gone within 24 hours, the ones that didn't look so good would be around for weeks - its a small strange market with so many of the cars concentrated within the home counties which isn't ideal for me>
But with it becoming winter, it was a great time to buy and my patience paid off.
It was top top end of budget (ie way above what I wanted to spend) but it was a car sold by a local porsche mechanic who now also sells a very small amount of porsche's - it was ULTRA low mileage, and literally is like brand new inside.
The colour wouldn't be my choice ( I would of preferred a guards red, cobalt blue etc) and didn't have all the options I wanted, but its a 2nd hand car, it ticked so many of the boxes that 2 days before my birthday I put a deposit down on this beauty...and collected it a week later.
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) shorter ratios would be a peach, but these cars are also built for cruising at 140mph on the autobahn and need a top speed for kudos (171mph in this case)
