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Old 06-26-2009, 07:41 AM   #44 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by evomind View Post
all nice cars, but those porsches arent exactly lightweights either.
True. However, I was instructing on Wednesday and literally alternated back to back between the 911TT (which I just learned has 583whp- I thought it was only 550) and the GT-R every 20 minutes for 2 hours. In that situation, I got a REALLY good feel for the two cars. Each time I switched from GT-R to TT, it took all of about 30 seconds to say to myself, "ah, much better"... The 911TT drives like a Lotus does to a miata when compared to the GT-R. The sensation of being in a smaller more agile feeling car is sensed instanesously and only hightened as we went around the track. According to the mags, the lap times the two cars can achieve is about the same...and that may be. However, I'm certain the fun-factor is much greater in the P-Car...

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