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Originally Posted by ekam
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As long as you don't drive it. A new 911 is a workhorse. Ferrari is show piece. with pretty poor build quality for the price if you look at some of the Ferrari forums. One guy on there who has his own lift and does all his own work (has a 996 too) posts about how sloppily the product is put together by the Ferari mechanics once you start getting under there. As far as durability, you basically have to pony up for the track versions if you want a car that can come close to a Porsche on build quality. And high mileage Ferraris are rare birds. I saw one post by a 430 owner I believe where the mechanics all came out to look a Ferrari that had ~70K miles. They'd never see such a thing.
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Originally Posted by ekam
Funny how everybody recommends IMS-less, DFI engines yet nobody mentions about the dirty valves issue that plagues ALL DFI engines in North America. Go read on VW, Audi, BMW forums people...
Grass is greener on the other side.
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I think about this. I never thought I'd own this car for over a decade. But it seems like a "The devil you know" more than "the grass is greener". Unless Porsche slap a flat 8 into a Boxster I'm not sure I would buy a newer Porsche on the basis of additional HP. But I did read somehwere the VW chief was driving around in a 981 Cayman with a flat 8.