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[Perfectlap]

unfortunately water-cooled Carreras are expensive to fix and maintain if you're serious about track days there are much beter values if you're looking for a track toy. Namely some of the newer Corvettes which are finally durable (engine wise) for that type of use. They share much of their braking with Ferrari's suppliers. The new Stingray comes in at half the price of the latest Carrera GT3 and on similar tires will destroy a $120K 991 S. Actually the current top of the heap Corvette is beating the most limited and fastest $270K GT3 and GT2's by ~3 seconds at the N-ring (ouch...and on VW's home field -- double ouch). For real world budgets $30K in track mods will go light years further on a Corvette than it will on a GT3 (and you're still slower than the GM). And let's not even get into the warranty BS that Porsche is pulling on folks who are dropping $130-$150K on track ready 997 GT3's. "Your rear center lock wheel flew off midlap? Go pound sand we never sanctioned track use...."
Durability seems to be the only advantage Porsche has and it should since you're certainly paying through the nose for it.

I'd say for a tiny budget the FRS is hard to beat as a driver's car. For a bigger budget in the $60K - $90K neighbohrhood the new Stingray (costing nowhere near $90K) is going to be impossible to beat at the track/ax.