I have had the car for 3 weeks now and only managed just under 600 miles. I opted for the cabriolet replacing a gen 1 turbo coupe which I had for approx 2.5 years which was pretty much faultless albeit that this only clocked up 12k . The cab was specd with pdk with flappy paddles, sports chrono, torque vectoring and a few other bits and pieces which soon adds rapidly to the price.
I have not really driven the car terribly hard to date and probably need to accumalate a few more miles. Initial impressions
PDK with the turbo is unsurprisingly rather good. I also have an M3 with a similiar gearbox which does most of the mile munching and the porsche system is better and easier to use and smoother overall. The speed piles on deceptively but relentlessly almost free from any lag. I know that there has been a lot of comments on the new v old engine and the longeveity or otherwise of the new engine together with the ability to increase the power availiable from various modifications. I am not technically qualified to give a real opinion and/or probably keep cars long enough to suffer long term reliability issues. However I suspect that the new engine standard with PDK will make the car significantly quicker in the real world for most users. We will have to wait and see on long term reliability. I have not tried the launch control system yet although the sales team at the OPC who had recently returned from a familiarisation trip to germany said that they had been treated to repeated runs on cars that had less than 300 miles on the clock and that the system can be used 'relentlessly'. i would feel safer with a few more miles on the clock.
The car seems less fidgety under acceleration and more planted on the road than the gen 1 although given its been driven relatively moderately it might not be comparing apples with apples. It feels slightly sharper when cornering again caveated by the lack of really vigorous driving
The exhaust note sounds much richer than the gen1 helped no doubt by the fabric roof inside the car The materials generally inside the cabin feel slightly better than the gen 1 - the leather slightly softer and the sat nav with bluetooth first rate. Bluetooth in particular is better than the BMW systems . Its not probably what most people buy a porsche for but really does indicate how real world practical they are.
I was not really sure about a soft top but to date it feels pretty solid and I am not a good enough driver to probably exploit the differences between the coupe and cabriolet so looking forward to the 3 days it does not rain in the North West of England.
Overall very happy with the car and looking forward to piling on a few more miles and having a real play with the launch control. It does feel an improvement over the 'old' car, helped no doubt by the fact that it is new and one typically feels, at least for a period, well disposed to 'new' things.
0-60 in 3 flat has not happened often until now.
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. So what are you Gary, A Pro Football player, or does you're mum work at Silverstone. 
