They have a shrill that the V12s don't have. The uneven firing order of the 90-degree V10s is definitely one super exciting sound that is just not the same in the smoother sounding V12.
The GT is in every aspect a very special supercar. Not the fastest and best handling, but belief me when you can collect Porsche GT’s, do it. Note: I was ones on a car expo, and i saw a GT in real back in 1999. ...
this car is really ugly - interior, instruments, headlights, tail. So much of the weird 996 DNA in the design. The engine is impressive, but the transmission dangerous - no wonder they could not produce the whole lot at that time with this package... My d...
That said, has anyone had one or driven one? A friend did and I have driven it often at the race track. Saying it's a handful is an understatement and driving it on the streets is close to impossible. YMMV, of course...😉
and a 959 was 20 years ago around 150kEuro so the idea of driving it regularly/daily pretty soon vanished because in the rain those two registers are not manageable imo. Take it to the Sahara (with its Dakar set-up) or to California or on track in any sun...
fault. The garage suggested the simple solution of driving it until it was really hot. The outcome was that I found myself at a track on an old military airfield not far away, driving it as hard as my limited skills would allow. Happily, the fault light t...