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No, not for me! My brother has just sold his Cayman R and has picked one of these up for cheaps, we're picking it up tonight. Just wondered if any one else had had one at all, or has any ownership advice?

They're a compromise, sure, but the experience is incredible. Whether you can live with the compromise is the key question.

Is it a brilliant idea? YES Would it be of huge benefit to the area? YES Would it get the use it deserves? YES Do the locals want it? YES Is it financially viable? YES Will it ever get built? NO

There you go then, easy solved

£15K will get you a 111R with the 2ZZ lump in, but you might have to wait for the right car. That'll damn nearly get you a VXR though, and I know which the superior car if you can live with driving a Lego brick.

Condition really doesn't suffer on Porsches., as long as they're looked after. I put my 2008 45k miler up next to a 2011 10k miler, and mine was in far superior nick. Look at the older cars: Decent leather is decent leather, and any 997 has that. I'd be amazed if you could tell the difference between a 2005 car with 100k and an early 2008 car with 40k: I wouldn't, assuming they've been maintained well. Go and have a look at the high milers, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. That said, the 997.2 is a much better car in every way, I sold mine for £35K so they're starting to come down. I still say do the M6 while you can though.

Do EBC do Yellowstuff for the 370, does anyone know? They're excellent pads, I've used them across a variety of vehicles and all have enjoyed the benefits.

Agreed. In fact, you could buy a VXT or an Elise now, run it for six months then probably sell at a profit next year,..

Nearly, Mezger engines as fitted to the Turbos (excluding 997.2 ) and GT models do not have an IMS. They can still suffer from bore scoring, but no more so than any other engine ever produced. It's the M96/97 engines that are the concern. Kyle, I wouldn't consider a 60k mile engine to be out of the danger zone: You'd need to look towards 80k+ before I'd be a bit more comfortable. Sitting around isn't too bad (although 3k miles isn't a lot at all), it's the warming and cooling that's the issue. A car that only does a 10min trip to work and back is never going to warm properly, and you'll be at massive risk. A car that does 20mins either way will be infinitely better.

Until they do a new 1M, I think you're right. Then the market will settle back down we'll have some sense in 1M prices. Think about it: A new 1M isn't going to be massively different from what the old one was. They'll use the new M4 chassis (which is better than the old M3 chassis), they'll use a S6TT engine (which will have more power than the old S6TT engine), and they'll still offer a manual 'box (as well as the amazingly impressive current 8spd ZF auto). It will also look better, given the 2 series looks better than the old 1 series coupe. Unless they make a dramatic change on that, I cannot see original 1M prices holding anywhere near firm. And saying all that, it's still an amazing car and I would love to have 1M on my driveway!

On a pessimistic scale, work on a basis of 5% failure rate. A car with high miles is less likely to suffer from IMS failure, but more susceptible to bore scoring or D-chunk. Whilst you can't really check the IMS, you can easily check for scoring by boroscope, which should be part of the inspection which every Porsche owner should get done before buying their car. You can mitigate the chances by doing proper warm up and cooldowns, as well as fitting a 3rd rad and the low temp stat. I decided to spend an extra £15K and get an engine where that's not an issue, but that's not exactly the cheap solution!

Demon Tweeks sell generic ones.

Re the wing mirror thing, blame the EU. They brought out a new rule stating that wing mirrors must be a percentage of the size of the car, so small cars get tiny ones and big cars get huge ones. You should see the size of them on the RR Phantom. They're ridiculous.

You can get a single year on it, but no more than that. Or you take the punt.

Apart from the fact it's sold, it looks a solid car to me. Personally I hate the PCM2 sat nav but it's certainly desirable for resale purposes, and very rare in a 2.7 987.1. Car looks great in that colour, and has sensible wheels on too.

So £15K, assuming it must be fun at least. A Cayman would be significantly different from your car, in terms of handling. If you've never done MR, it'd be a great place to start. Budget to run? You could get a 4200 for that kind of cash, but with no slush fund you might be taking a punt.

Sometimes you just feel the need to change. No harm in that. Did the Evo Xs go to 10k service intervals, or were they still on 6k? No chance it'll do better fuel economy than a Zed though, they're worse than the equivalent Impreza and I can promise you they're much worse than a Zed! What are the must haves/have nots?

Leave, and don't look back. At this point in life fella you are either going to have to plough it alone, or forever be stuck. It will be hard, the car may well have to go, but you will be a happier and stronger person for it. I think I said that I could see this happening at some point when it first kicked off, and I take no delight in being right this time (which is very unlike me!). Living with people who bring you down is never going to work long term, and I'd rather be happy and broke than sad and comfortable.

You dont half talk nonsense sometimes, civilian gps (sps) and military gps (pps) use exactly the same satellites, civilian operates on one frequency and military two so they can use "ionospheric correction" which reduces radio degradation through the earths atmosphere. Topography has nothing to do with it Civilian gps is getting more and more accurate year on year as they introduce new signals and frequencies So we're completely ignoring how most GPS units in small modern devices (like phones and satnavs) only have a frequency sample of 1Hz, when for that kind of accuracy you're talking about you need at least 5Hz or higher via some kind of additional receiver? Never mind the use of A-GPS in phones. Okay, just checking.

From some angles it's okay, but I wouldn't call it stunning. I don't hate it though, and I'd happily drive round in one.

I googled it to be sure

Domestic GPS isn't accurate enough, as it doesn't take into account topography.

I need all the protein I can get with all this training at the moment. Queue the dirty comments... Sod the comments, I'll be round in 10.

Like all 370s, I assume so.

FF you say? Stay tuned... I loved it, I really did. Much more so than anything else I've driven for a long time.