1 111 Carrera Gt sold by christmas

[Perfectlap]

I wonder how many of those CGT's have been totaled. Its gotta be hundreds.

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

I wonder how many of those CGT's have been totaled. Its gotta be hundreds.

Perfectlap, why do you think this? I am just interested in hearing your thoughts. I doubt that many of them see the outsides of thier garages!

[Perfectlap]

well for starters its a beast. THe car was never intended to be a road car. Its a racing car that was intended to be in the LeMans series. Can you imagine Audi collecting the left over R8's and putting on sale for the public without and driving instruction?!? I don't see how CGT is any different.
Everyone I know who has driven the CGT has spun it. INcluding one guy who is no stranger to Porsches and drives a 996TT everyday, the CGT is his garage queen. I know that the GT3 has a very high attrition rate as well (and they only sell 300 a year!) and that's a much easier to drive car then the CGT. So its just a disaster waiting to happen in the wrong hands, especially before the tires up to temp. I've noticed these cars are often resold with very low if any mileage, and I oftern hear customers complain that if they had been allowed to test drive it before it first came out that they never would have put in the order. I wonder how many of them feared the car the whole time they owned it.

[Rail26]

I could handle it no problem...who wants to loan me one?

[Perfectlap]

LOL that made me laugh, no offense.
there was a guy on the Rennlist who recently did just that with his CGT. Let a couple take it for a spin (he must have been drunk) and the female driver promptly put it into a tree, totaled. I wonder if the insurance company will cover the $400K since the insured driver was standing a few blocks away at the time of the crash.

check this out rail and tell me if you still want to jump in
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1294420330942974226&q=porsche

That's a great video! Very impressive. The guy makes it look easy. He is probably all of 125 pounds dripping wet. I think he was sitting on a phone book too. I bet Rail26 eats guys like that for breakfast.

Hey, if Jay Leno can drive the wheels off that thing, I am thinking Rail26 could do the same...if not better! Now, lets see if Jay can fly an Apache.

[limoncello]

Our local CGT owner (his regular car a turbo carrera I think) is seen around town, and takes it to tracks in the area to drive, i.e. it's not sitting in his garage.

Randall's got the plan - I'll just kind of work it into a conversation that I'd REALLY like one next Christmas.

Wait a minute: Christmas presents in Saudi Arabia????? Didn't think there were a lot of Lutherans there...that sly ole Saint Nick gets around.

[98Boxster98]

Originally Posted by bmussatti

Hey, if Jay Leno can drive the wheels off that thing, I am thinking Rail26 could do the same...if not better! Now, lets see if Jay can fly an Apache.

There's an episode of "Rides" where Mark Donohue's son, also a race driver, coaches Jay Leno how to drive the CGT so that production car speed records could be attempted at the track. There was a whole team of mechanics working on the CGT that would be used for the records and another for practice.

As you imagine, race drivers, like pilots, don't make very good passengers. Donohue didn't like being in the car with Jay Leno. Donohue said that anybody can be taught to drive at 150 mph but every mile per hour above that becomes more and more dependent on the god given talent of the driver and exponentially less forgiving of errors. Jay Leno did pretty good but he did lose it in practice and spun five times around. You could see the whole support team cringing and hoping that he wouldn't hit the wall (he didn't).