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Old 12-11-2012, 04:44 PM   #56 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by lemon-fresh View Post
I guess... I still feel like if you put a new viper against an NA 911, the 911 ends up looking really overpriced for what you get. Might as well go with a cayman S instead, if you are all about the refined driving experience.

Obviously it comes down to preference, but I would be thinking "what if" every time I saw a 911Turbo drive by. If you are gonna spend all that money, might as well get the fastest one of the model line.
I would never get a 911 Turbo (forgetting about the huge price increase). I enjoy NA cars, now perhaps if you interchanged 911 Turbo with 911 GT3, which I would prefer over my C2S (whenever it does come out), I would still not be asking myself 'what if'. I buy what I can comfortably afford, and in the lower 100K price range, the 911 is the car best suited for me. Until you have driven one, you can't compare it to other more powerful cars like the Viper. Its the same principle as the Z. Even though the Z is less powerful than a similarly priced Mustang 5.0, a lot of us here like the 'feel' of a Z more than a Mustang. Oh and the Cayman S does not have the same feel as the 911. No matter what the review people tell you, you know the engine is in the back and you drive accordingly.

The only time I would say 'What if' is if I saw a GTR (not the Viper), and that does not mean I would ever trade my 911 for a GTR.
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