You'll be able to buy a Stingray "roadster" with PLENTY of change to spare over what you'd pay for the 981S. Enough to buy a used 987. Also nice: The factory won't void the warranty for driving on track in "an unusually aggresive manner" (Porsche lawyer speak to void warrantly claims for center lock bolts coming loose and putting you into the wall). To underline the night and day difference in attitudes towards warranty claims, the Stingray options sheet even comes with camera mounts so you can watch your laps at Sebring over and over.
Meanwhile these are the absurd state of options with Porsche fully stuck in "Nothing but Blue Sky" mode
(From the latest Road & Track)
Painted Remote Key: $335
Rear footwell light: $510
Painting 20" wheels: $2,225 (wheels not included of course)
leather on air vents: $1,710
color stitching on steering wheel: $1,025
Alcantara on shift lever: $865
^ excellent trimming for your 991 Porsche that will depreciate like a falling rock. God forbid you get a scratch on it...forget it you end up with one
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Originally Posted by southernstar
the Corvette is a very blunt intstrument, whereas the Boxster is more like a surgical instrument.
Brad
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C7 Z51 laptime at ViR Grand Course: 2:54 (on skinny street rubber... not race)
Other cars at VIR GC (on fast rubber)
Ferrari 430 Scuderia: 2:54.6
997.1 GT3: 3:01.8
991 S PDK: 2:58.9
997.2 GT3 RS 3.8: 2:55.9
Which some have speculated will put the new Corvette at N-ring lap of
~7:33-36 on the right tires.
Again, this is BEFORE any performance mods which don't come with Porsche tax on a $50K out the door car...
N-ring:
Ferrari 430 Scuderia: 7:39
997.1 GT3: 7:43
991 S PDK: 7:37.9
997.2 GT3 RS 3.8: 7:33