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Wilhelm 07-28-2012 06:54 PM

Where did all the Carrera GTs go ?
 
Up until maybe a year or 2 ago, I would see a Carrera GT on the Freeway or on one of the local canyon roads every couple of weeks or so. I havent seen one on the road in a good long while now. Have they all become garage queens already ?

dentist90 07-28-2012 06:58 PM

Lucky you. Only place I have ever seen one is on YouTube... and it wasn't complimentary to the Porsche marque.

Porsche-O-Phile 07-28-2012 07:16 PM

I used to see a few driving around but similarly haven't in quite a while. I suspect most have either been relegated to garage queen status or crashed by now.

Wilhelm 07-28-2012 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by dentist90 (Post 6881212)
Lucky you. Only place I have ever seen one is on YouTube... and it wasn't complimentary to the Porsche marque.

Oh..what was the You Tube video about. Sounds interesting.

Wilhelm 07-28-2012 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile (Post 6881228)
I used to see a few driving around but similarly haven't in quite a while. I suspect most have either been relegated to garage queen status or crashed by now.

Apparently so.

mikeesik 07-28-2012 07:35 PM

Weird!
Why today my Son and I went to the Porsche dealership.
-There was a CGT parked outside for all to salivate on .
It was in for maintenance . Talked to a shaguar sales guy.
Never seen one before and thought it'd be a bit bigger.
-Nice, though. Small cabin nice rear sighting. Shame Porsche doesn't focus on engine details. Cheaper I guess. That goes along with all the rear engines.

Noah930 07-28-2012 07:38 PM

Parked next to one at the last Supercar Sunday I attended. But I don't see them on the street too often anymore.

dentist90 07-28-2012 07:43 PM

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bUFt1_EJSD8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

This is the video I was thinking of. And don't get me wrong... I would give my left one to own one of these. Just wouldn't use it as an auditory weapon on the street. Maybe. :p

Wilhelm 07-28-2012 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by dentist90 (Post 6881268)
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bUFt1_EJSD8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

This is the video I was thinking of. And don't get me wrong... I would give my left one to own one of these. Just wouldn't use it as an auditory weapon on the street. Maybe. :p

Roger that. Sounds good on the canyon road and in the tunnel (looked like Kanan Road to me) . But that display on the streets around Beverly Hills....not so good. Must be "new money". But I admit, if I could afford a Carrera GT..it would be hard to hold back. :D

Noah930 07-28-2012 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Wilhelm (Post 6881287)
But I admit, if I could afford a Carrera GT..it would be hard to hold back. :D

No it wouldn't. Because you're not an a**hole.

Brew 66 07-28-2012 07:59 PM

Most are garaged due to the cost of a tune up!
Soneone was driving Jerry Seinfeld's at Cars and Coffee in Irvine a couple of weeks back!

Wilhelm 07-28-2012 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Noah930 (Post 6881291)
No it wouldn't. Because you're not an a**hole.

I try not to be one. But ...who knows? ME behind the wheel of a Carrera GT ?? I might go bad !

AFC-911 07-28-2012 08:37 PM

That video is of VR Alexander, no? That guy acted like a real d-bag attention whore.

Flieger 07-28-2012 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by AFC-911 (Post 6881363)
That video is of VR Alexander, no? That guy acted like a real d-bag attention whore.

The guy that killed himself in one of those top speed road races in Nevada or something?

CHICKS 07-28-2012 09:32 PM

Two at my dealership now.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1343539940.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1343539949.jpg

Racerbvd 07-28-2012 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Wilhelm (Post 6881233)
Oh..what was the You Tube video about. Sounds interesting.

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bxXb9JYYFfI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/isU6roLVHE0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nrxLOzHKc58" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

HardDrive 07-29-2012 12:07 AM

Carrera GT's are ugly. Period.

DanielDudley 07-29-2012 03:03 AM

Even the great Walter Rohrl admits now that he could have been faster at the 'Ring in a CGT if they were more forgiving. Sad really to see another super expensive Porsche flagship with insufficient development.

onewhippedpuppy 07-29-2012 03:22 AM

There's one that I occasionally see driving around town, and another that I saw at my dealer service department when the buyer of my last 996 was getting a PPI. They didn't even put it in the same service area with the "common" Porsches, it was totally segregated. Wichita isn't supercar city, but I see far more new Ferraris and Lambos here than CGTs.

I think they're appreciating in value, correct? Probably a lot of folks just sitting on them to keep the miles low. It's a damn shame........

slow&rusty 07-29-2012 05:31 AM

I keep mine garaged most of the year but will take it out to Cars and Coffee occasionally.


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