One of the VPs at my company (large corporation, 50,000 employees) called me today and told me that he has something in the company garage to show me. Lo and behold, we get down there, and he's got a brand new white 997 GT3. Only option was PCCBs.
He took me a for a little spin, then got out and told me I could drive back. Unfortunately, he is still in the break-in period and didn't want the car to go above 4200 rpm (not like I'm going to go crazy driving it anyway, as I'd probably have to sell two internal organs to pay for damages).
But man, what a car - instant throttle response, the PCCBs would suck your eyeballs out, and the thing would throw you back in the seat every time you shifted. It would be a real hoot once you can get it up to 8K revs.
The interesting thing was that it was a pretty streetable car. If you set the PASM to soft mode, the ride was only a little stiffer than my Boxster. The only problem, which he has encountered numerous times, is that it is very easy to scrape the front end spoiler (though he claimed new ones were relatively inexpensive).
That is pretty much the car that if I had an unlimited amount of money, I would buy. Exact color, exact specs.
A day for the memoirs....
