991 GT3 Touring driving through Manhattan.. couldn’t decide if that’s cool or pointless
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 8:53 am
by ZedLeg
Driving in Manhattan is never cool. If you're skint and cool you walk and if you're rich and cool you get a town car
If you're going to drive into the city you might as well get something with really firm suspension though.
Saw my first Grenadier this morning, I've got egg on my face now as I quite like it in the metal. It was in white on steelies and all the details that look weird in pictures don't seem to matter irl.
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 9:07 am
by mik
IanF wrote: Mon May 20, 2024 8:56 pm
991 GT3 Touring driving through Manhattan.. couldn’t decide if that’s cool or pointless
It’s kinda both.
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 9:20 am
by Rich B
I don't think it really matters - who knows the back story. The owner could be mid way through a tour of the country, visiting every major city and race track, raising money for blind orphans each day and sleeping with super models each night.
Or he could be a fat business man who squeezes into the seats in his Porsche jacket and bounces it down the road to impress the local slags.
Who cares - It's a GT3. GT3s will always be cool.
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 9:21 am
by Jobbo
ZedLeg wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 8:53 am
Driving in Manhattan is never cool. If you're skint and cool you walk and if you're rich and cool you get a town car
Or if you're normal you get an Uber...
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 9:22 am
by Jobbo
Rich B wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 9:20 am
I don't think it really matters - who knows the back story. The owner could be mid way through a tour of the country, visiting every major city and race track, raising money for blind orphans each day and sleeping with super models each night.
Or he could be a fat business man who squeezes into the seats in his Porsche jacket and bounces it down the road to impress the local slags.
Who cares - It's a GT3. GT3s will always be cool.
This. Might have been on his way to the Red Ball Garage; who knows.
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 9:59 am
by ZedLeg
We have very different ideas of cool
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 10:16 am
by Rich B
ZedLeg wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 9:59 am
We have very different ideas of cool
I totally agree!
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 10:24 am
by Jobbo
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 10:48 am
by Rich B
To be fair, I didn't see much that looked like Manhattan there - more like Brooklyn/Coney Island/etc...
I presume Zed is very specific about manhattan being uncool for cars?
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 10:51 am
by ZedLeg
I don't understand why anyone would drive into a city if they didn't have to and doing things because you have to is never cool. Simple logic
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 11:03 am
by Rich B
ZedLeg wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 10:51 am
I don't understand why anyone would drive into a city if they didn't have to and doing things because you have to is never cool. Simple logic
oh, I thought it was a specific comment on Manhattan.
So if you live in a city you can't have a cool car - because you might have to drive it in the city, and that would (for some reason), be something you wouldn't want to do?
Yep, I don't get you at all.
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 11:06 am
by ZedLeg
Of course you can have a cool car. I just wouldn't use it to get about the city.
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 11:13 am
by Mito Man
What if you live in a quite central location in the city and want to get out? And most people usually can have one 1 permit. And if you live in the city you don’t need a small car because public transport. Might as well have something nice.
See why so many people in London have a Range Rover/911/Bentley/sports car.
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 11:18 am
by Rich B
ZedLeg wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 11:06 am
Of course you can have a cool car. I just wouldn't use it to get about the city.
so you'd have to have a shit car you don't want too? Surely that goes against your ruling?
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 11:19 am
by ZedLeg
Being cool is literally the least important thing in the world. Do what you like.
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 11:20 am
by Sundayjumper
Mito Man wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 11:13 am
See why so many people in London have a Range Rover/911/Bentley/sports car.
I do have all of those but I don’t live in London. I’m DIW, again.
Re: Teh Spotted Thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 11:21 am
by IanF
It was Shark/Voodoo blue with anthracite wheels and blacked out side windows turning onto Park Ave probably from the Queens tunnel.. considering it’s Manhattan, I’d go more (fat) Wolf of Wall St and less Mary Poppins!