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taffy said:
Just how fast were you expecting it to go ?.If the performance gains for each successive new model were to be considerably greater than the previous incarnation then most of these 964/993/996/997 would be expected to flash past 60 in about 3secs and 100 in probably 8secs , this is not going to happen as there eventually would come a time where you would have a standard 911 that would not be able to be bettered by a more expensive model ..i.e c2 would be so fast that it would have superior performance to the current gt2 , and where does the gt2 go from there ?
There is an inverse exponential curve with each successive model, and by studying the previous models performance improvements and other markes improvements with successive model you can extract an approximation of what you can expect from each. With that in mind, do you think that
one second faster over a
20km track is an adecuate and reasonable performance increase from a the new version of a high end sportcar after 6 years? do you think that will be the difference from the C6 corvette over the previous C5?, or the next 500HP C6Z06 over the 400HP C5-Z06?, the upcomming V8-M3 over the E46-M3 or the new V10-M5 over the outgoing M5?, the Ferrari 430M over the F360M? and so on...
The 355HP 997S with PASM is the logical succesor of the 996C2 performance wise, and the 997C2 is just a "912" version used as an excuse to sell the 997S for 10k more. That is the reason Porsche broke tradition and introduced TWO new models at the same time, imagine if the Porsche only the 997C2 alone, what would the press and enthusiasts say about the new generation? instead they introduce the 997S along and everybody focuses on it instead and takes it as the refference for the improvements of the new generation, notice how in the magazines only the 997S is tested and talked about and not the 997
So the 997 is a bummer and dissapointment (and the best proof will be the sales ratio vs the 997S, never will a C2 sell so bad), but OTOH at least the 997S is a great buy since even for 10k more its still a great and what many of us were looking for to replace our 996's.