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I generally like it. I find the interior gorgeous and quite fitting for a luxury road car (GT) -- admittedly, it's too nice for a track car. It will be interesting to see what they do with the GT3. Still not completely sold on the back end -- I prefer the horizontal slats on the rear deck, but that's been going on for a few years already. As stated above, the rear light treatment is a bit Cylon helmet -- I'm not sure how well that's going to age.
I find the "OMG, it's got new-fangled electronics -- I can't fix that with a Crescent wrench" comments to be funny. Even the beloved aircooleds were once considered somewhat exotic, only to be breathed on by a trained specialist named Dieter. Today, they don't seem very complicated and the DIY knowledge base is huge.
The aftermarket will step in to hack/reverse engineer/fix/improve these cars as long as there's demand for them. It just takes time. Consider all the technology retrofits available to aircooleds: coil overs, ignition systems, brake packages, electric A/C, modern fuel injection, upgraded turbos, the list goes on. Replacement electronics/radios get designed to update the interior. Specialists rebuild speedometers, ABS units, control modules and so on. The aftermarket support is part of what helps these cars keep their value in old age. It's a business opportunity for those so inclined.
But yeah, the first 20+ years are going be nothing but depreciation -- just like it was for the aircooleds.
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