That's more a sad reflection of cable news than a positive reflection of a tabloid that makes its money reporting on the sex lives of celebrities.

I have no doubt that Porsche issued guidance on who and how the Carrera GT was test driven. But that poorly written memo doesn't strike me as a corporate document.

Hamilton Carrera GT Crash

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Car Crash: Porsche Carrera GT

I suspect that you could find similar articles on most supercars. If I could have just one supercar it would be a C-GT, one of the last true driver's cars without a massive layer of electronic nannies and a simply intoxicating exhaust note.

Porsche Carrera GT Crash

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Havent posted here for a while but it's nice to see Porsche adhering to the same design/handling traditions.

How many of these cars did they make? I forget .....

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I figured the same thing until I started looking deeper. There are a sheet pot full of CGT wrecks out there and almost all of them are single vehicle incidents.
Waaaaaay too many based on the population.
Compare that to enzo's, I've only found a handful of enzo crashes.
Even fewer lambo crashes.
How many McClaren F1's have we seen crashed?


Sure looks to me like the CGT was destined to crash out.
No sir, I would not want one.
If given one I'd drive it once (carefully) and then put it up for sale, no test drives available.

I am light years away for being able to afford anything near a C-GT...

But if I hit the Lotto don't think I would be shopping for one...

There has to be dozens of visceral fun to drive super cars without the infamous handling characteristics of the C-GT IMHO.

Bean wrapped up his F1 twice so far..

The car has very high limits. You can drive one all day, even at a pretty good clip, without getting into any trouble, if you don't drive like a dick. I've seen a lot of GTs driven poorly and the owner is usually fooling around or showing off.

You can buy a sport bike with a much greater performance potential and you don't see those on the news when some guy bites it. Not as big a deal to the masses...

JR

I recall the C-GT production number at 1300 (?).

Wow, there is a few wreaks there SammyG.

They made 64 McLaren F1's.... Bean already balled his up twice....

The F1 cost around 1.2 million each..

Operator error can be quite expensive

Unfortunately sometimes lives

I'd like to know what this guy has stuck in his arse. I'd imagine lots of faxes between dealerships don't read as if Hemingway had written them. WTF?

Coming on 8 years since you registered, you need to learn how to read a vBulletin forum thread properly. I was making a joke about the OP because of this article that was linked in the other Paul Walker CGT thread:

Porsche Carrera GT: 5 reasons the car Paul Walker died in is different - CNN.com

Note the source.

I assumed you were taking a friendly jab as well, which is why I replied the way I did.

Had I been replying to you, I would have quoted your "looks like an inter-dealership fax". It just so happened that my post came in right below yours and I'm assuming you thought it was in response to what you had written. In the future, when there is a reply with nothing quoted, it is typically in response to the OP.

That CNN article is not bad-can't say that I find much in it that I disagree with.

"Breaking news":
Driving very fast may result in accidents!

"Next up on tonight's program":
Mid-engined cars are more likely to keep spinning!

Other people previously discovered the limitations of a tool:
Paul Walker Crash -- Leno Spun Out In Similar Porsche ... At 182 MPH! | TMZ.com
But overcame them:
David Donohue /Jay Leno Team Set Speed Records In Porsche Carrera GT

we could go around and around about this but for the sake of everyone here, let's let it drop.