Design Review Of The Porsche Carrera GT
Dec 20, 2008 | 01:23 AM
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Jas, thanks for sharing your experience with us! It's good to have you back, man.
Dec 20, 2008 | 01:51 AM
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Vinnie my man ! How have you been ?!!!
Good to see so many old friends still posting away...
Good to see so many old friends still posting away...
Dec 21, 2008 | 09:12 AM
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The clutch is tricky on a hill, no doubt...but not undriveable. I think an important consideration now is that the car is more and more in the hands of enthusiast owners that understand this aspect of the car and why it so. I may be off base here, but alot of the people that were concerned about the clutch sold them early and they went to people who accepted it. Even those folks that subsequently sold it on, are now drifting back to ownership again....knowing full well what the clutch characteristics are all about....I know of at least 8 people that sold the car, and have either bought another one or are in the process of doing so......why ?
Hill starts ? Foot on clutch, foot on brake....release clutch slowly until revs drop ever so slightly as it grabs...release brake and off you go...tricky, but doable.
Hill starts ? Foot on clutch, foot on brake....release clutch slowly until revs drop ever so slightly as it grabs...release brake and off you go...tricky, but doable.
Dec 21, 2008 | 04:42 PM
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Is the CGT durable ? The following would seem to suggest so....
"Featured in Porsche’s christophorus magazine (#329 December 2007/January 2008 issue) Enrico Pozzi isn’t one of those owners who garages his two year old Porsche Carrera GT. It is his daily driver in Milan, Italy. For Enrico, it was love at first sight when he test drove the Carrera GT at Porsche’s Leipzig test track.
But the biggest shock to us all is the mileage on his black beauty. During his two years of ownership, Enrico has driven over 100,000 kilometers (62,000 miles) and this is equivalent to circling the globe 2.5 times"
"Featured in Porsche’s christophorus magazine (#329 December 2007/January 2008 issue) Enrico Pozzi isn’t one of those owners who garages his two year old Porsche Carrera GT. It is his daily driver in Milan, Italy. For Enrico, it was love at first sight when he test drove the Carrera GT at Porsche’s Leipzig test track.
But the biggest shock to us all is the mileage on his black beauty. During his two years of ownership, Enrico has driven over 100,000 kilometers (62,000 miles) and this is equivalent to circling the globe 2.5 times"
