nberry:

Interesting. Pay more money for less performance but more feel.

Does price always have to equate to performance?  Your Targa must have cost pretty close to the price of a GT3.  Far heavier car, less feel, less noise.  But at least it has that turbo torque.  But you paid for that open top experience primarily, right?  Also, as you have indicated in the past, these cars are starting to get too fast to enjoy on public roads.  Now we need to find other qualities to entertain us on the road because the performance is "enough."  

I agree with you though that the price of the 911R is not necessarily reasonable, but this isn't a regular production model anyway, so I can excuse it for that reason.