Happy New Year all. First day back in the office in 2 weeks. Would have taken these two days off but after calling out a serious underachiever before the break, she's on a rampage to virtue signal by scheduling 9a and 10a meetings on the first two days back. "See look how hard I work and how dedicated I am! I'm ready to go at 9am, why aren't you?" Sigh.
Oh wow omni knowledge bombs. Do the resale values really drop that much on pcars? Just like a vw I guess.....
It's not that they drop value THAT bad - tho the "base" models generally don't hold up like the S does. Realize a 987.2 is also two generations old now. Keep in mind that base Cayman stickered for ~$50k when brand new.
Alright so anyone gift anything good to their loved ones this year? I bought my gf a ninja foodie, shes been talking about wanting an air fryer basically all year. This thing is an air fryer, pressure cooker, 8 in one dealie, no clue how it all works yet. Decided to try it for Christmas dinner last night (Drunkenly)
We were going to bake cornish hens....yeah
Not my finest cooking moment. We didn't know what we were doing. Put a bunch of veggies and the Cornish hens on top. It turned out bad, not cooked on the under side because we smothered the under side. Definitely a learning curve with this thing but we made a nice redemption tonight with some wings, turned out crispy and delicious.
Gf spoiled me this year and bought me a Milwaukee 1/4" electric ratchet and an electric heated jacket.
Wife got a tune for her car, and a nice diamond necklace (which she got early.) Jr. got a new TV, driving lessons, a couple Xbox games, and a new phone. I got a new open-face helmet (for autocross) and a nice wood watch winder.
Always got ATT girl even though shes off the rocker if youve seen her youtube channel.
She definitely has an odd sense of humor. Cute AF tho. She also played Tara on Silicon Valley.
If i could afford a porsche gt3 rs or gt4 whatever , 100% would buy it in pdk (edit: not sure if they make them in manual?)
lolwut
GT4 and GT3 both available in manual. Buy PDK over man-pedal? Wat? #fail.
No doubt you’ve made it a better car to drive on the track, but deep down you know you could just go grab a 2005 Cayman S and put sticky tires on it and it’d be a faster car at the track and pretty much a better car in all situations other than Costco runs.
2005 Cayman? Unpossible.
It’s a manual trans for me in every situation if given the choice for a sports car. I don’t care about lap time advantages of a dual clutch automatic. I’m not competing for trophies. I care about how the car makes me feel and improving my own personal bests.
A+ 100%
Absolutely. Even in traffic I don't mind it. Both my cars are manual and I sit in over an hour each way stop and go traffic. It's not like it takes that much work to drive with 2 feet instead of one. The crowd that uses the traffic argument as to why auto is better likely also have a difficult time walking and chewing gum at the same time.
A+ 100%
I think I out-commute everybody here and I don't notice any real additional "pain" when I drive the man pedal car. And the man pedal car IS a kind of PITA because the clutch is a little on the grabby side.
I dunno about that, I think I have an overall better suspension setup than a stock cayman
Probably right. A stock Cayman feels pretty good but you can't get any real alignment on the car without putting GT3 control arms on it. They max out at like 1.0 degrees of camber.
LOL
"Arms Have Priority" is how they generally work because inevitably you get the idiot in the Prius or SUV who can't figure out what to do so they STOP and gum up the works.
Trade mk6 gti hpde build for a 2012 m3 4 door ? Thoughts?
I hear the V8s have some known issues that can be catastrophic. But I also don't pay super close attention to BMW stuff.
