Blast from the past... C7 or 991.2?

[SteveH]

Hi Rich! thats spot on... I can remember you hunting out your 911. only seems a couple of years since we were all at the MRC rolling road session, scarily that must have been in 2006 so 10 years ago!? where on earth did that go. I can remember i got home from there and found a screw in the shoulder of a tyre so turned out to be an expensive day. Good fun though and well worth it.

So many cars these days are attuned to the top-trumps stats... which don't account for feel and real world experience. The C5 at the time was just laugh out loud fast experience, its frantic surge built your neck muscles, whether it was accelerating or throwing the anchor out the window and stamping on the brakes. i can remember test driving a V8 Vantage and by god it felt oh so slow in comparison, I came away from the test drive severely disappointed. I went to test drive an M6 and drove it and the brand new 635d that had literally just been released, and I came away in shock having bought the 635d, I couldn't believe that I'd bought a diesel, but the overall experience whilst of course not a patch on C5, it felt pretty damn good and at the time of hitting recession it did best about 40mpg from that of my 16mpg in the RS6... My employer was much happier with my company fuel card receipts!!!! i literally went from about £10k of fuel a year to £3,500 overnight.

When i went to test drive the new 991, their demonstrator at Christmas from the December release of the car to dealers was a basic Carrera. A mere 350bhp, but its very impressive how it shifts, and if you hit that mode button and bury the right foot it feels epic... took me back to the day I collected my RS6, which made me think about heading back here... there will be many other models that will be quicker, but each by their closely accounted margins, but the mere base Carrera will be more than sufficient for me and retains some margin of reserve in economy terms. Scratches my 911 itch, and you get a hell of a lot of car for the base model, the technology has come on massively. Have still caned £11k of "essential" options in the configurator. Residual at 4 years and about 90,000 miles isn't too bad though. I would definitely have it as my daily driver, my logic is that if you do a good few miles, get a nice car.

I bought a 1976 camper as my Sunday driver and absolutely love it, its a right laugh and has quite a decent 2l engine in. It can even overtake lorries up hill!

It made me smile when i went to look at an RS6 yesterday for the first time in years. Looked very nice and I definitely need to arrange a test drive for the coming weeks. The efficiency has improved massively over the C5, which would keep the audit team happier at work. I love it that you're back in an RS6.

[SteveH]

Deposit paid today on a 911 for September. Brucie Bonus... never realised you get a Silverstone session in any 911 you want before you collect your own.

Should've had that before collecting my old RS6, seeing as i nearly crashed it on the way home as I didn't realise how quick it was from a standing start... I nearly launched myself into the cars in front at a busy island and had to stand on the Brembo's quick smart.

I will still head for a test drive in a C7 in the coming weeks, out of sheer research and intrigue; just in case.

[doodlebug]

You get a session in the car you're buying, not an open choice, known as depositer day. 3 hours driving and lunch or breakfast, it's all good. Some customers get their cars before they get to PEC though.

[Bjornbuse]

Since im going for a third c7 rs6, i tell you its not bad.
The question is, are you going for gt3 rs, that is a great car. The just s, i would say get the audi!
But as an extreme avant, the rs6 is hard to beat.

[doodlebug]

I've driven the 991.2 C2S and it's pretty near RS6 pace and way better dynamically as you'd expect. It's better screwed together and finished too. The C4S is a tad quicker to 60 than the RS6.

[DragonRR]

It's better screwed together and finished too

They do make more trim noises than Audis though. My one main complaint about Porsches. My TTS had lord knows how many, maybe 10+ different rattles, squeaks and creaks took weeks to get them sorted and I still have microfibre cloth shoved in both rear pillar trims. Most 911s I've driven seem to have the odd one or 2. Ditto Caymans, Panameras and my loan Cayenne last week had a creak. Golf R - nothing, silent. Audi RS6 - two, HUD and center speaker. I've also had seven new rear tyres on the back of my TTS in 10K miles!... Obviously this is me and my attraction to screws, nails and bits or wire