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The off-throttle oversteer issues are overblown. You'd have to be a pretty lousy driver to get into trouble with that one and a 930 isn't worse than a 911 in that regard. What's more of an issue is understeer when coming out of a corner on the power, which also is something that a 911SC or Carrera does, to one degree or another.
A 930 gets to operating temperature just as quickly as a 911, so I don't know why that's an issue. In warm weather, it takes nowhere near 15 to 20 minutes in either car.
The onset of boost can be managed as well. Changes to the exhaust, turbo, etc. can give you something different than stock and anybody that drives a 930 long enough can modulate the throttle during the boost transition to make it less abrupt. What it comes down to is easing out of the throttle somewhat as the boost starts to build. Any abrupt transition comes from being hard on the gas at low revs and keeping your foot planted as the boost builds, something that nobody that I know does. It's not a particularly good idea to be at full throttle well below the torque peak for any 911 or 930, so if flooring the throttle at 2000 rpm is considered normal for some people, then maybe they need to rethink things a little. A 930 responds well to a driver that anticipates things a bit, which is also a good thing in any other car. Lots of things that a 930 does "poorly" have nothing to do with the car and everything to do with the bad driving habits that some people have. I'm not trying to rag on anybody in particular, it's just that maybe these cars are less tolerant of bad habits than others. In other words, don't blame the car...
One thing I will agree on is that they are lousy in an autocross. But, a lot of autocross courses tend to be too tight for any car. The one at the '83 Parade was nice...
JR
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