6 mars 2018 16:03:43
RC:DuckieRS:The 'creases' on the hood are needed to keep it from looking too wide.
(front) Lights will be an improvement. Still find it difficult to come to terms with the 991 ones...
I remember when I saw them (991.1 front lights) for the first time live...horrible. Now, especially in dark flavor, they look OK. I guess people get used to stuff like that.
In the leaked photos you can cleary there´s something missing below the red stripe and you can also see 7 connectors?
It´s just for the Porsche Lettering or it can also be for the Porsche Lettering but illuminated?
RC, any help?
This is the way this post ends, not with a bang but with a wisper, WOSHHHHHHHHHHHHH
6 mars 2018 16:35:23
Porsche 911 plug-in hybrid will be 'most powerful ever' (Autocar)
(6 March 2018)
The plug-in hybrid version of the next-generation Porsche 911 will be the most powerful model in the 911's history.
"The 911 plug-in must be a very strong performing car," said Porsche boss Oliver Blume. "It will be the most powerful 911 we’ve ever had; 700bhp might be possible."
The electric motor is likely to be rated at a minimum of 136bhp – that’s the power of the Panamera 4 E-Hybrid's motor - while the combustion engine will be a turbocharged petrol flat-six. Today’s 911 Turbo S develops 572bhp.
Drivers will be able to use "a special button for the electric punch," Blume added.
The 911 plug-in’s technology will be unique but will draw on experience gained with the front-engined Panamera hybrid and the 918 Spyder supercar.
As a result, the 911 plug-in will be launched “a couple of years” after the next 911, codenamed 992, which is scheduled to be revealed at the Paris motor show later this year.
6 mars 2018 16:38:04
Seems silly to have a button to activate full power. When I put my right pedal to the floor, why doesn't this mean I want full available power?
Maybe you can only use it once a lap, so it can recharge?
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18 GT3 Manual, 73 Carrera RS 2.7 Carbon Fiber replica (1,890 lbs), 06 EVO9 with track mods. Former: 16 Cayman GT4, 73 911S, Two 951S's, 996 C2, 993 C2, 98 Ferrari 550, 79 635CSi
Grant:Seems silly to have a button to activate full power. When I put my right pedal to the floor, why doesn't this mean I want full available power?
Maybe you can only use it once a lap, so it can recharge?
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18 GT3 Manual, 73 Carrera RS 2.7 Carbon Fiber replica (1,890 lbs), 06 EVO9 with track mods. Former: 16 Cayman GT4, 73 911S, Two 951S's, 996 C2, 993 C2, 98 Ferrari 550, 79 635CSi
It's an F1 thing.
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7 mars 2018 05:26:22
Paulo_Rangel_Melo:In the leaked photos you can cleary there´s something missing below the red stripe and you can also see 7 connectors?
It´s just for the Porsche Lettering or it can also be for the Porsche Lettering but illuminated?
RC, any help?
Paulo, think f it this way, I don't think anything is missing, it's just the new porsche styling:
Porsche, separates Le Mans from Le Boys
7 mars 2018 09:53:01
Paulo_Rangel_Melo:RC:DuckieRS:The 'creases' on the hood are needed to keep it from looking too wide.
(front) Lights will be an improvement. Still find it difficult to come to terms with the 991 ones...
I remember when I saw them (991.1 front lights) for the first time live...horrible. Now, especially in dark flavor, they look OK. I guess people get used to stuff like that.
In the leaked photos you can cleary there´s something missing below the red stripe and you can also see 7 connectors?
It´s just for the Porsche Lettering or it can also be for the Porsche Lettering but illuminated?
RC, any help?
Sorry, kind of overlooked this...
This is how the PORSCHE lettering will look alike. I am not aware that there is going to be an illuminated version but maybe...I don't have all details about the 992 yet. Nothing really missing in my opinion but I never had the chance to look at details, just at the whole thing. Normally, the lettering is in silver though, I think.
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RC (Germany) - Rennteam Editor Porsche 991.2 Carrera GTS Cabriolet (2018), Porsche Cayenne S Diesel (2017), Audi R8 V10 Plus (2016), Mini JCW (2015)
9 mars 2018 08:37:33
RC, can you tell us more about the headlights and the front bumper?
You already told us it would be smaller (the headlights).
Beside being smaller!!!
Rounded, Same Shape but smaller, etc....????
Regards from Azores, Portugal!!!!
This is the way this post ends, not with a bang but with a wisper, WOSHHHHHHHHHHHHH
9 mars 2018 09:48:36
Paulo_Rangel_Melo:RC, can you tell us more about the headlights and the front bumper?
You already told us it would be smaller (the headlights).
Beside being smaller!!!
Rounded, Same Shape but smaller, etc....????
Regards from Azores, Portugal!!!!
Headlights shape and even the "internal" part seems to be correct (photoshop), just the size isn't. It is smaller than on the current 991.2 but not as small as many may expect: They actually go pretty well with the thinner backlights in my opinion. Front bumper is pretty much correct too, with a few minor differences.
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RC (Germany) - Rennteam Editor Porsche 991.2 Carrera GTS Cabriolet (2018), Porsche Cayenne S Diesel (2017), Audi R8 V10 Plus (2016), Mini JCW (2015)
9 mars 2018 10:45:30
RC:Paulo_Rangel_Melo:RC, can you tell us more about the headlights and the front bumper?
You already told us it would be smaller (the headlights).
Beside being smaller!!!
Rounded, Same Shape but smaller, etc....????
Regards from Azores, Portugal!!!!
Headlights shape and even the "internal" part seems to be correct (photoshop), just the size isn't. It is smaller than on the current 991.2 but not as small as many may expect: They actually go pretty well with the thinner backlights in my opinion. Front bumper is pretty much correct too, with a few minor differences.
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RC (Germany) - Rennteam Editor Porsche 991.2 Carrera GTS Cabriolet (2018), Porsche Cayenne S Diesel (2017), Audi R8 V10 Plus (2016), Mini JCW (2015)
Thank You!!!!
By the way, i just realized /Off topic) that i´m making 15 years on Rennteam!!!
I started up with the spy pics (One of the very first posts (997) with that 996 camouflauge crap and a fight with NBerry about the 997!!!!
Had a Big Accident on 2005 and called you Guys on Rennteam for support!!!
15 YEARS WE GO!!!!!!, 997, 997 mk2, 991 mk1, 991 mk2 and the 992
Thank you Guys!!!!!
This is the way this post ends, not with a bang but with a wisper, WOSHHHHHHHHHHHHH
9 mars 2018 11:09:34
Paulo_Rangel_Melo:By the way, i just realized /Off topic) that i´m making 15 years on Rennteam!!!
I started up with the spy pics (One of the very first posts (997) with that 996 camouflauge crap and a fight with NBerry about the 997!!!!
Had a Big Accident on 2005 and called you Guys on Rennteam for support!!!
15 YEARS WE GO!!!!!!, 997, 997 mk2, 991 mk1, 991 mk2 and the 992
Thank you Guys!!!!!
Wow...haven't realized that we are already 15 years around...
Great to see that people stick to this forum, I wish I could do more for you guys but kids need to eat, Daddy needs to work, so... I wish I had a rich daddy to support me, so I can roam around and gather new and interesting stuff for you guys. Same with the moderators and the system guru Aron, we all have real life jobs and Rennteam is just a hobby.
Thanks a lot for your support and making it through the 15 years without getting insane...
RC (Germany) - Rennteam Editor Porsche 991.2 Carrera GTS Cabriolet (2018), Porsche Cayenne S Diesel (2017), Audi R8 V10 Plus (2016), Mini JCW (2015)
9 mars 2018 11:26:21
9 mars 2018 14:28:17
Paulo_Rangel_Melo:Thank you!!!
YOU, CF (Carreta GT member), Joost, Ron (Houston) , the irreparable NBerry and every other member on this board!!!
Xoooooooooooooooooooooo
Ron has become a good friend, unfortunately I lost contact to CF (met him a couple of times in Miami, talked on the phone often but life goes on...) but otherwise, great contacts, great people no doubt.
RC (Germany) - Rennteam Editor Porsche 991.2 Carrera GTS Cabriolet (2018), Porsche Cayenne S Diesel (2017), Audi R8 V10 Plus (2016), Mini JCW (2015)
9 mars 2018 15:00:00
10 mars 2018 04:01:00
Whoopsy:Gauss:Time flies. Cheers for another 15 years
And we will still be talking about the R8 in 15 years!
If car manufacturers continue the way they do now...you can bet on it.
Listen to this (and please try to understand because...I couldn't): When I asked my Audi dealer why the RS3 (latest model, only one month old) I had as a loaner, sounded much more muted than the RS3 I've driven a couple of months ago, he told me: "Over 2000 customers wrote complaints to Audi because the car's exhaust sound is too loud..., so Audi issued a software update to make the RS3 quieter."
Do you understand? I don't. I checked with various German Audi forums and it seems to be true, so many customers are pissed. Apparently some tuners want to offer a solution but unfortunately not ABT (the only one Audi dealers can officially work with) because...listen to this...they are afraid of Audi's reaction.
This whole car business got messed up big time, at least in Germany and this can't end well (for us enthusiasts).
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RC (Germany) - Rennteam Editor Porsche 991.2 Carrera GTS Cabriolet (2018), Porsche Cayenne S Diesel (2017), Audi R8 V10 Plus (2016), Mini JCW (2015)
rhino:I remember the old tiptronic debates
Me too...I basically shocked everyone on Rennteam when I chose Tiptronic for my 997 Turbo. What many don't know: It took me some serious intervention at the highest level at Porsche to actually get Tiptronic for my car (first dealer car delivered) because the Tiptronic cars were reserved for the higher Porsche employee hierarchy (no kidding) and first customer cars were manual only. Wasn't easy...Wiedeking personally was involved and I was actually pretty sure it won't work (my dealer, whose son was a friend, was pretty sure it won't work).
Why Tiptronic? Because for the first time, a Porsche with automatic was faster than manual, Porsche had adapted the ESP/AWD system, engine, etc. to the Tiptronic and vice versa, so the results were amazing. I can't say I liked Tiptronic but I loved the performance (car was later on tuned by RUF to over 550 hp and it was fast like hell for the time...).
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RC (Germany) - Rennteam Editor Porsche 991.2 Carrera GTS Cabriolet (2018), Porsche Cayenne S Diesel (2017), Audi R8 V10 Plus (2016), Mini JCW (2015)
RC:Whoopsy:Gauss:Time flies. Cheers for another 15 years
And we will still be talking about the R8 in 15 years!
If car manufacturers continue the way they do now...you can bet on it.
Listen to this (and please try to understand because...I couldn't): When I asked my Audi dealer why the RS3 (latest model, only one month old) I had as a loaner, sounded much more muted than the RS3 I've driven a couple of months ago, he told me: "Over 2000 customers wrote complaints to Audi because the car's exhaust sound is too loud..., so Audi issued a software update to make the RS3 quieter."
Do you understand? I don't. I checked with various German Audi forums and it seems to be true, so many customers are pissed. Apparently some tuners want to offer a solution but unfortunately not ABT (the only one Audi dealers can officially work with) because...listen to this...they are afraid of Audi's reaction.
This whole car business got messed up big time, at least in Germany and this can't end well (for us enthusiasts).
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RC (Germany) - Rennteam Editor Porsche 991.2 Carrera GTS Cabriolet (2018), Porsche Cayenne S Diesel (2017), Audi R8 V10 Plus (2016), Mini JCW (2015)
I guess RT will became a vintage forum . Nevermind, it is a great place.
RC:Whoopsy:Gauss:Time flies. Cheers for another 15 years
And we will still be talking about the R8 in 15 years!
If car manufacturers continue the way they do now...you can bet on it.
Listen to this (and please try to understand because...I couldn't): When I asked my Audi dealer why the RS3 (latest model, only one month old) I had as a loaner, sounded much more muted than the RS3 I've driven a couple of months ago, he told me: "Over 2000 customers wrote complaints to Audi because the car's exhaust sound is too loud..., so Audi issued a software update to make the RS3 quieter."
Do you understand? I don't. I checked with various German Audi forums and it seems to be true, so many customers are pissed. Apparently some tuners want to offer a solution but unfortunately not ABT (the only one Audi dealers can officially work with) because...listen to this...they are afraid of Audi's reaction.
This whole car business got messed up big time, at least in Germany and this can't end well (for us enthusiasts).
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RC (Germany) - Rennteam Editor Porsche 991.2 Carrera GTS Cabriolet (2018), Porsche Cayenne S Diesel (2017), Audi R8 V10 Plus (2016), Mini JCW (2015)
The reason is that people and companies went overboard with noisy exhaust systems. It started with all the videos of idiots revving their engines and "exercising" their aftermarket exhaust systems in the middle of London and other busy city centers. Pretty soon, that became the standard that automakers were pushed towards. Makes no sense. If I compare the sports exhaust in my RS-60 and the ones in my GTS Cayman, or my brother's 991 S with sport exhaust, my conclusion is that the new systems are overly loud and nowhere near as musical as the older ones. The older one has a subtlety to it that is lost with the newer noisemakers, with their artificial farts. In the case of the Cayman GTS, the exhaust has an annoying drone at lower RPM (where the PDK keeps going if left to its own devices.) In fact, I will be ordering my next car with the base exhaust; and that's from someone who always had the factory sport exhaust when it was offered, and installed aftermarket sport exhaust before Porsche started offering it.
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