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Its not often in CBD with speed camera on every corner you see someone deciding to cut loose from the lights, but yesterday I was given 15 seconds of entertainment by a GT2/3/4 driver. Couldn’t tell which one. White Porsche. I was one of the spectators along with many others on the bread n butter run.
So he guns it with all the noise you expect from a cutting edge German supercar. Then, just for kicks….a BA/F turbo decides he wants to go along for the ride, right behind him. A few things cross my mind at the same time. 1. Is the Porsche going to pull away from him? (He didn’t) 2. Are they mates? (Would a guy in a $300,000 car be mixing it with a guy in a taxi with dinner plate turbo bolted on?) (highly unlikely) 3. How does the driver of the Porsche feel about his $300,000 sports car not being able to pull away from the taxi? (I don’t think he would be happy) I await the next bit of entertainment……..
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Mk4 Supras have been doing this to supercars for 20 years
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Smells like an adventure of the Incredible Hulk........
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....4. Who will have more luck when attempting to take a nice looking lady for a drive?
(Not a Porsche fan) Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
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That reminded me of a guy in an XT GT back in about 1970. He was in front of me at the lights to turn left. The lights go green, he lights up GT's tires. The guys beside me, lights in an XY, lights up his blue lights. I waved him through, with a smile.
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Falcon should have been an aurion.
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Should have seen my first reply...lol... I edited it because the pedestrians opinion of the real estate prices in the CBD wasn't asked and I wasn't sure if the turbo chasing the Porsche was MINT
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well in fact the ford was in appearance, as per the factory, good condition with the standard rims. no visible external modifications. i couldnt see the exhaust properly. the noise and speed of the Porsche suggests, he was on it, big time. the ford however...did not sound stock. it was a sleeper.
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Give me the Porche any day of the week, driver experience is 100 times better than any falcon, no matter how fast it is. There is nothing like the sound of a GT3 on song either. I enjoy baiting porches at the lights in my G6ET, I put my window down, take off a little hard and back off and then listen to that glorious sound at high revs as they belt past.
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no argument there. beast of a car.
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I doubt that old mate in his street registered track weapon cares that in a straight line a xrt keeps up with him. 500hp vs 1000 potential is quite a gap
I have a mate with a gt3 touring. Maybe we aren’t mates because I only have a pursuit I also have a future ex mate that has a clio 185. Really need to reevaluate that one I also have some more ex friends that don’t care about cars. Will no longer see them |
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Is there honestly a better car than a modern Porsche? Decades of meticulous iterative refinement, and it shows. The day an ICE Porsche is no longer produced will be a sad day indeed.
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if my memory serves me correctly, before the XRT were cranking up, the WRX was giving plenty of curry to Porsche owners in mid 90's. Porsche were not at the same level as they are now. they started the 90's struggling a little.
in big scheme of things, if i had a $300-500,000 supercar, and a tarted up local taxi $10,000.00-20,000 was right on my tail, or level, after a drag race, i wouldn't be fist pumping at the next lights.
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But we aren't talking about the sound of a GT350, we are talking about the sound of Porches.
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All good mate, keep that window down.
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Read the thread title and thought it was about Damo's ( Franco Cozzo's ) sex life.....
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And now I can't "not" see that.
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Story reminds me of this.
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