the generic hate is mentioning the minuscule bloat (offset by the added power) and electric steering.

Because you need a brand new Porsche to pick up the finest ladies of the night.

Butterfly valves in what? If you’re talking about the exhaust, then yes this also has those.

Just the coolant expansion tank and electric steering rack.

Heads up. The clutch in the 991.2 is dog shit. It’s got zero feel in every one I’ve driven. Maybe the GTS will have improved feel? But I’d recommend a CPO 991.1. It won’t be brand new and won’t have all PCM 4.0 or new engine. But it’s (in my opinion) a better car. Or if you want pure driver’s car and don’t mind the…

I have never seen five lug swaps. Or even centerlock equipped cars that see any real track time. Usually if they’re beating on them enough to be doing wheel swaps they just buy the tool. Rotors definitely because they don’t like the steel rotors usually

With the exception of the R and GT variants they are all 7-speeds. And the 6-speed is a derivative of the 7-speed (despite what Porsche tells you)

For all the jerking off about how great the hydraulic power steering was in the 997 and 996. It really wasn’t that good. Don’t get me wrong, for a drivers car i would recommend a 997 all day. But the knock against the electric racks in the 9x1 cars is really unjustified. It’s a damn good system.

Yeah I work on them for a living. Unfortunately.

Which would involve a dedicated platform change for specific structural changes. Which would outweigh the money they’d rake in from the targa sales.

Yeah it does. Even the engineers from Germany were bitching about how they couldn’t ditch that STI sound.

The targa isn’t that complex. It’s basically a cabriolet with a different folding mechanism.

They do make hybrid versions of the Cayenne and Panamera.

it will definitely hurt your bank account. Because while the services aren’t expensive (if you do them yourself), things like brakes and air filters can get expensive quick.

It’s because the used Cayenne will literally kill you in repair costs. There are a ton of issues with the first gens that make it not worth it.

It won’t climb a mountain but it’s still extremely capable.

It does not. The 92A chassis eats transfer boxes. Only on the VR6, V6 and V8 models. Diesel and hybrids have different transfer boxes.

Best thing is that it wasn’t a joke. Porsche and VW legitimately thought people who bought new Range Rovers were really taking them off road and doing all these crazy things.

Then you’d love the 718. Because it sounds like a Subaru.

The 718 engine has nothing in common with Volkswagen.