Hooray, my Basalt 987 is scheduled for production on August the 28th. SHould be at my OPC mid September, so I should get it a few weeks early.

I am buying from a (the) Northern Ireland dealership so will have the equivalent of a 55 plate in Great Britian and one of the first MY06 UK spec C16 cars, built after the factory summer break.

Combined with a nice drive down through the south of Ireland, across into Wales on the ferry and a back road run through Wales to London, it will be the perfect run in for my new car.

Can't wait.

As an aside, does anybody have any firm and factual info about spec changes (details) on 06 cars? I have heard sports seats will no longer have map pockets and that the 3rd 12volt socket in the passenger footwell is to be removed. Any truth to these rumours?

By the way, it seems the chrome tailpipe is no longer causing delays as I have specced this. Saw this on a gurads red car in my local OPC this morning (first time in the flesh for me) and it looks really superb. None of the photos so far do it justice. It is much chunkier looking than the standard S exhaust pipe. Def worth the cost.

I also listened to the Porsche sound pack upgrade and am really glad I have gone with BOSE. The sounds from the porsche upgrade was wooley, lacked definition and structure and had boomy bass that drowned out all the other channels.

other than that. the next 6 weeks can't go quickly enough!

Cheers,

JZ