macca993:
Hi Guys.
The 991 GT3 Rennlist forums have dissolved into a sh*t slinging match on almost every thread between those who think the new GT3 is crap and those who are fending it. Pretty incredible given no one has driven it.
It would be nice if we could keep this thread relevant to the original topic and post new information and articles we find on the car.
Just a suggestion. Converstaion about MT vs PDK, Bucket seats and track warrantys gets mighty boring when every thread on every board ends up stuck on such conversations.....
Hey Macca,
i have a 991 GT3 on order as well, and had been following the other forum for pertinent information leading up to its reveal. I don't post there - or here either - but I was shocked at just how quickly it all devolved into a flurry of arguments based primarily on theories, speculation, conjecture, and personal biases. You and Mike in CA were two of the few people objectively (relatively, at least) defending the car. Granted, we have our own biases for having deposits down, but I felt you guys were making rational arguments which were more often than not simply countered by accusations of brainwashing or "drinking the Kool-Aid".
The drum beating, the same tired rhetoric and arguments; I've seen far worse than that on various fora, sure. But the fact that almost every thread goes the same way, that people were making new threads with the same questions and arguments, all on top of the fact that no one has driven the car yet... Quite shocking, really. This from what I had come to see as (mostly) rational adults and petrol heads. It all seems very different from when I first came across that forum almost five years ago, when I got my first 911. It seems so simple to me: If you don't like it, don't buy it. If you don't like it but have never driven it, then what's the point? Why spend your free time rehashing the same arguments ad nauseum on a forum?
To be fair, certainly there is an element of blind faith when choosing a vehicle sight unseen, but as Andreas has said, "This is a car you choose with your heart and stomach, not so much your brain." And my heart tells me it will be an incredible car, no worse than the GT3's that have come before it. Sadly, I missed out on the 997 GT3 like I originally wanted (no allocations were available at the time), but I don't see the 991 GT3 a compromise of any sort. There's absolutely no guarantee that this car will be brilliant of course, but there's no guarantee that it won't be, either.
Having owned a 991 C2S for a year and four months now, I look forward to disproving the notion that the new GT3 is just a tarted up Carrera S as some people have come to see it as. I tend to chuckle a bit when even the 991 Carrera's gets called out negatively. 16 months behind the wheel haven proven otherwise for me, but for some a 5 minute test drive or a magazine article - even reading something on a forum - is enough evidence to dismiss it. Sadly, the same will probably be true for the GT3, but as long as we're happy behind the wheel - that's what counts, right?