GT3 prices going up

[Nurburgsingh]

993rsr said:

The BBS/ Manthey mags suffer the same.

that would make me cry.

[Far Cough]

ags11 said:

It’d be interesting to know if the rumours of the later cars having a more settled ride are true?
Has anyone any direct experience of this?

I cannot say for sure about the later cars having a better ride but with the 992`s there are 2 different tyre pressure settings and the one with more inflation definitely makes the car jiggle about. Dropped to the more normal lesser pressure and mine is fine. I`ve got a sneaky suspicion that when Harry Metcalfe test drove the 992 GT3 for his YT channel it was on the higher settings which produces a rather different experience when blasting down a bumpy B road !!!!

[Geneve]

‘Ride comfort’ can be very subjective .

But, from my experience of owning four GTs, inc a Touring, although it may be possible to achieve very subtle improvements with set-up, tyre choices and pressures, ceramic brakes, etc, this is fundamentally a track-biased car on the UK’s sub-standard roads.
So, always going to be a compromise.

Many people, inc Harry Metcalf, even find the 10mm lowered PASM suspension on the standard cars, such as the ‘T’ and ‘GTS’, tiresome on UK roads.

I do most of my mileage in France - in fact keep a 992 there - and the difference on well engineered, properly maintained, low noise asphalt roads, is immediately noticeable in any car.

Did meet a chap in the Eurotunnel with an ST and he said he’d had numerous performance Porsches, and the ST had the best ride composure (although still a bit noisy), which he felt was down to a combination of spec factors, inc non-RWS, and the lwt wheels and brakes.

[Mankers]

I do most of my driving in France, Spain and Switzerland, in a 991 GT3. The roads are so good I’ve often forgotten to change back from sports suspension (when leaving the twisties) as the roads are so smooth you don’t notice! In the UK the car would shake itself to pieces!

[Far Cough]

Geneve said:

‘Ride comfort’ can be very subjective .

But, from my experience of owning four GTs, inc a Touring, although it may be possible to achieve very subtle improvements with set-up, tyre choices and pressures, ceramic brakes, etc, this is fundamentally a track-biased car on the UK’s sub-standard roads.
So, always going to be a compromise.

Many people, inc Harry Metcalf, even find the 10mm lowered PASM suspension on the standard cars, such as the ‘T’ and ‘GTS’, tiresome on UK roads.

I do most of my mileage in France - in fact keep a 992 there - and the difference on well engineered, properly maintained, low noise asphalt roads, is immediately noticeable in any car.

Did meet a chap in the Eurotunnel with an ST and he said he’d had numerous performance Porsches, and the ST had the best ride composure (although still a bit noisy), which he felt was down to a combination of spec factors, inc non-RWS, and the lwt wheels and brakes.

Your right of course it is subjective but most would be able to tell the difference between unruly behaviour and a firm or supple ride in this instance