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Will get 599 next wk to start doing own amateur, back-to-back, subjective-feel assessments in twisties vs 997TT and SL65 (if it stops raining for a few days in SF)... 
Can't wait to read your reflections 
Well, the weather forecast is some 5-7 dry days ahead
Was driving around my usual (semi-dry, given the recent incessant rain) twisties in my humble CL550 today (and had two near-misses within 30 mins w/oncoming guys who couldn't stay in their own lane in their 10yo, <$10K cars...Darwinian selection may prevail, given who drives what car/how competently they seem to drive
)
.....and it occurred to me, that given EU's culture of smaller urban regions where affluent typically just drive a few blocks from home to office in central Lond/Munich, where cars cost 30%+ more than in US (w/unfavorable lease/tax financing costs) and fuel is near $10/gall, it's not really surprising that US generally has awful pavement, heavy rush-hr traffic on 80MPH+ traffic-flow CA fwys and many, many inept drivers (dangerously) armed w/6000lb POS SUVs...unlike their middle-class EU counterparts, who often commute via walking/bus/train or ?3000lb diesel POS (more akin to Manhattan's commute patterns
).....
Suspect that SF/SilicVy may be unique place on planet w/high-speed (even in rush-hr) urban fwys and mtn twisties where guys w/599/65/997TT use their toys on a daily basis (even on rainy wkdays
) and demand cars that can withstand poss collisions in this real-world, heterogenous environment of general affluence, cheap fuel and free suburban office pkg...and demand street cars that have ground clearance to allow one to enter one's office pkg garage ramps/gas stations w/o issue in a hilly region (as is all of relevant CA)....after all, many engineers can produce an FXX-comparable car w/o real-world, street compromises if buyers are willing to pay $1MM or so....
Dangerous piece of crap (sorry).
