OV9

For me, without a shadow of a doubt, this!

As a road car, perfect, manual, enough power but not too much, great gearbox, noise, sublime handling! If I can at some point, I will!













Had the pleasure of driving it about 30 miles over the lecht, ie roads like

I wish rather than speccing the rear wing delete, the touring option gave you the ability to put the rear seats back. Then it would be perfect.

That road looks phenomenal.

Obligatory 'looks shit' Foz.

Mine is probably a Mk1 Renault Kangoo. That thing slid round roundabouts better than my 325i

I guess for the age I am now (64) my 981 Cayman GTS is almost perfect. Scroll back 21 years and I had hit the nail squarely on the head when I picked up my Lotus Elise. 21 Years before that I was happy in my GP Beach Buggy at Blackrock Sands and a girl in a bikini came and asked for ride in my car! (the only time this ever happened, sadly). 21 years before that my pedal car suited me fine according to the look on my face in a little old black and white photo I have!

If I'm still around and driving 21 years from now I suppose it'll be some kind of autonomous electric shit box.

My mate's 997.1 GT3, I guess, although I generally like what's parked outside

Puma.

I've driven a few other cars, but nothing massively interesting (Clio 182, BMW 123d) and not remotely hard because they weren't my cars.

I love the Lecht road.

Blimey - I can see why!

991.2 Turbo S. Just astonishing.

mik wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 2:58 pm I love the Lecht road.

I only got up as far as Braemar (in my Mundane Shitbox (TM OV9)), not too bad though for popping out for a there-and-back drive.

I've not driven owt that interesting, a couple of old rwd things (mk2 RS2000 2.1 on 48s, Chevette HS running at ~180bhp) which were fun if rather temperamental. A surprisingly good car for doing boring stuff was a 996 Carrera 4 Tiptronic. I never really got the chance to lean on it so I don't know if it would have disappointed then; it might be better for driving to the good driving roads than driving on them. Any BMWs I've driven have been boring ones apart from a lhd Alpina E36, but I didn't really get long enough to acclimitise so didn't get to drive it properly, and I only got to passangeer an E30 M3 convertible (probably not much of a loss).
I think I need a scoot up to Scotland to hire a Caterham.

My car obvs.

Nice Foz I'd like to try a standard GT3 on the road at some point.

I've been lucky enough to drive some reasonably special metal over the years. The funny thing is, it usually make me appreciate what I own even more.

Marv wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 6:39 pm Nice Foz I'd like to try a standard GT3 on the road at some point.

I've been lucky enough to drive some reasonably special metal over the years. The funny thing is, it usually make me appreciate what I own even more.

Nothing beats a 911R Shirley? Not even your shonky wagons.

I'm a little hesitant to say so from the 20-25 min I had behind the wheel, but on the face of it, yeah the 911 R probably is the best.

I do prefer to drive a car a little while longer to pick up on some of its more subtle characteristics, but when Rod was so kind to even let me drive it for more than one minute, and he let me drive it at silly speeds.... Who am I to complain?

Still, your R400 is certainly up there with the best I've driven. Certainly felt accustomed to it quickly, as I'd been driving another Seven for a few days prior. Your engine sounds way better than any four cylinder engine has any right to

You just need to go back and try his 918 now, Marv!

E63S. Best hour of motoring for me. The way it climbed through 100mph remains a complete shock to me.

Best at what?

Exactly - for example, the best car I've ever driven was a Fiesta 1.6D van that my old man paid 50 quid for - if the criteria is "best at driving two Labradors up onto Selsley Common and then hoying them in the back of it when they've covered in mud and lightly steaming without giving two fucks about the car".

He meant that, right?

Well I could be wrong, but I think he means best at being enjoyable/exciting to drive. Do you lads need a detailed instruction booklet to get out of bed in the morning?

You're definitely wrong - there's no way that's what he meant.