Driving impressions of the Clubsport-S.

[volkswizard]

Well........I've not been far in it today but I am thoroughly loving it

Roads around here are dreadful at best and I've been plopping around in "Comfort" mode of all things

It rides the undulations beautifully and cuts out the sythn engine noise so all I hear is tyre roar and the lovely exhaust note.....What a great car, the car I've been waiting for since I sold my R26R in 2010

Well that's a relief!
WAS that an Aero8 in your garage?

[vipergts]

Yes a series 1 with the Clarence eyes. My favourite, and my second aero after regretting selling the first

[volkswizard]

Yes a series 1 with the Clarence eyes. My favourite, and my second aero after regretting selling the first

I think that's one of my favorite cars and on my "if I win the lottery" list next to a custom 'Ruf', the designer has started designing watches now. I saw dark red one at the 'ring on Russian number plates around 10 years ago, how cool must that be in Russia?!

[vipergts]

Yes a series 1 with the Clarence eyes. My favourite, and my second aero after regretting selling the first

I think that's one of my favorite cars and on my "if I win the lottery" list next to a custom 'Ruf', the designer has started designing watches now. I saw dark red one at the 'ring on Russian number plates around 10 years ago, how cool must that be in Russia?!

It's truly an amazing car to drive, lightweight, all alloy, magnesium centerlocks and rose-jointed suspenders, built for Lemans before they turned fat and started cost cutting

Matt Humphries designed it and yeah he does watches now. My Son landed a job at Morgan design team so he's heavily involved

[GT4]

Thanks Clubsport ... I was thinking CS-S for 3 reasons ...

1) It would be financially a good car to run and have some feel good factor
2) 80% of the time it could replace the GT4 for afternoon/evening blasts and keep mileage down on GT4
3) I do 6 miles a day on a Private estate as my daily commute at under 25 Mph - so could do that job as well

I make maybe 6 journeys a year to see friends/family of over 100 miles and could do that job as well, but also think an RS3 or AMG could do allot of those jobs better .... Your thoughts??

Bottom line is bang for your buck .... !!!!!

Andrew

Honestly, get the car, drive it, tick it off of your list, take your premium to subsidize what you will inevitably lose on your RS3 or AMG. Not a bad way to lose a few quid either!
Bang for the buck, but what if you don't like the CS-S? Will you drive a Fwd Turbo, knowing you have a mid engined flat six in the garage?

I don't know that it is all about £££ keeping the miles low on a GT4.
There are approx 600 GT4 and a good chance of a 981.2 variant, who knows what engine that will have?
If you like the GT4 as much as you appear to, why not enjoy it? With these performance Porsche's the experience gets better the more time you spend behind the wheel, there is a definite learning curve, which keeps them engaging.

You asked for an opinion ex ante, your judgement of the driving experience and usability will determine how long you keep the car.
Either way it will be a good place to have money over the next few years, even if it depreciates, it should be modest.

Clubsport - you make a very good point, indeed I should drive the car more but sadly have OCD and spend more time washing than driving, hence why I thought the CS-S would be a good bet, also if I ever need some money then it gives me 2) easy sell options ...

Regarding GT4 there are 500 ... more than I would like but I guess Porsche got hacked off with all the flippers making £30k so built some more ...

I think the gen1 GT4 will be the first and only N/A GT4 and will be the first to be turbo charged as a GT model with the gen 2 therefore making the Gen1 a legendary Porsche, not that it isn't all ready 😍👍

I am on the list for Gen2 991 GT3 and think that will the last NA GT3 before its replacement ...?!

[Jackie Treehorn]

Well........I've not been far in it today but I am thoroughly loving it

Roads around here are dreadful at best and I've been plopping around in "Comfort" mode of all things

It rides the undulations beautifully and cuts out the sythn engine noise so all I hear is tyre roar and the lovely exhaust note.....What a great car, the car I've been waiting for since I sold my R26R in 2010

Glad you like it..

5G0601703A is a part number for the kit bag could be what you need.

 

[volkswizard]

Well........I've not been far in it today but I am thoroughly loving it

Roads around here are dreadful at best and I've been plopping around in "Comfort" mode of all things

It rides the undulations beautifully and cuts out the sythn engine noise so all I hear is tyre roar and the lovely exhaust note.....What a great car, the car I've been waiting for since I sold my R26R in 2010

Glad you like it..

5G0601703A is a part number for the kit bag could be what you need.

 

Nice find.

Did you manage to check if the front hubs are different to CS? Viper's/Clubsport's neggy camber pics suggest so. Got a VIN if you need it

[Jackie Treehorn]

Haven't got a chassis number for a CSS yet. I should be able to see everything that's different on ETOS i hope, so people can upgrade GTi or CS models for specific parts.  I did it for the CS to GTI PP and suprisingly only the springs were different, no change to mounts, ARB or dampers.

I didn't want to ask for someones chassis number as it would look a little odd, if you know what i mean, so happy to wait till one pops up via VRM lookup at work

[vipergts]

Is that a tow eye kit bag that I should have received?

[Jackie Treehorn]

Well I wouldn't say you should have received it, but its a VW Golf part straight from Etos system so its easily something they could give you to store and hold all the parts in the side pockets of the boot...

I will post another pic later