The 911, a mini review.

Is it faster? Also, i'd imagine the handling characteristics are somewhat different. Anyone could drive a 350Z at 99% of its limits, whereas it takes to skills to hussle the Porsche around....

So the 350Z is a better car then?

Its not me you should be trolling, Pete will be here to argue with you soon, you won't bait me into one your little arguments you seem to enjoy so much :)

Better built??????

You're having a laugh aren't you?

As for faster, well, *maybe*

I actually quite enjoy some of Steve Firths comments, even the trolling ones.

He knows as well as the rest of us that you either love 911's or hate 'em.

I love the things, but I'm not daft enough to know that they've got plenty of faults. That's part of the appeal. The 911 Turbo 3.3 is one of the most exciting cars I've ever driven even though there's probably a £20k hot hatch that'll go as fast. The hot hatch won't be anywhere near as much fun though, and it'll have all those safety gizmos I despise.

Bit like these guys.

to make Saabs, now make Boxsters.They don't mention it in the history, but they also made Skodas and one of the partners they merged with still makes tractors in the same factory too.

Hmm, take people skilled in building tractors and Skodas produce the boxster. Nice.

White cars should be illegal.

I can't recall which Porsche it was, but years ago at Bagshot in Surrey in pre scamera days I was at the lights at a section where four lanes drop to two immediately after the lights. I had a new(ish) Cit BX16V and was sitting in lane 2 and some Porker pulled up to my right, intending to do the usual rush away from the lights and then battel it out as the lane dropped.

I didn't leave it standing, but I did manage to get ahead - damn scary though.

It amuses me because it shows up people live Kev Lunn who in another group constantly tries to make out that "German" cars are somehow much better than "other" cars. The fact that a Porker or BMW can be using the same parts as an "inferior" car doesn't cross his mind.

Any road up, I'm working on my current modding at the moment - trying to add a hydraulic pump to a tractor that wasn't designed to have one.

The only parts i ever had go wrong on my 405 were a couple of the German electronic components :)

That wouldn't have been at the bit heading out of Bagshot just by the lights near where the BP/Safeway now is, would it?

Excellent. And I bet PTOs aren't universal are they across countries.

It's more across manufacturers. Fortunately mine is a standard 6 spline PTO, but I need the PTO for the flail, I need hydraulics to manouever the flail around.

AFAICT the major PTOs are 6 and 21 spline, then the Chinese tractors and some of the Jap ones seem to use something weird.

The road from Windsor/Bracknell to the M3/Lightwater the set of lights before the roundabout that gets treated as a F1 starting grid.

Ah yes, that. Know it well.

Yep. But only if you take emotion out of it.

Fraser

Bastard of a place isn't it? Every time the lights change it's a scrum for the lanes that are left the other side of the junction.

It's actually easier in the Ford. Rumble rumble, get out of my, I'm a tank.

Get a lottery ticket! You're one of kind.

Owned two 405 Estates for new, the first (405 GR) drove 200.000 km (had its fair deal of problems and used 4 (four) carburettors)

The second (405 GRi) was a nightmare and I sold it (read: gave it away) for

5000 fr (80 UKP) at 122.000 km. (about 2 years old)

Everything broke on that car: brakes, gearbox (exploding dif), clutch cable (the plastic bit at the pedal) 5 times, water pump, timing belt (at 70.000km), driver seat develloped holes after 40.000 km (nice on a 6 months old car) , 2 starter motors. I got the stats...

Not mentioning that the 405GRi (injection) was serious down on power compared to the carb-version.

Last thing that failed was the towing eye, while failing (I was being towed) the bloody thing ripped the front bumper off.

Comfort was good, road holding too. The rest was ahum let's say challenging.

Since then went Jap / German for company cars: never looked back.

France is good for 2 things: holidays and women... and it's whispered the women are overrated.

Tom De Moor

Hmmm. Between my Dad and myself, we've had 8 peugeot/citroen (1x205,

1x309, 3x405, 1x306, 1xAX, 1xXantia - all diesel) cars, covering lots and lots of miles, and the only significant problem we've had was a broken spring on my 205. I've had to replace a couple of radiators and driveshafts as a matter of maintenance, and there have been some minor electrical gremlins, but that's it. On the other hand, the two VW passats we had both spent significantly more time off the road (although they were somewhat less rattly :-)

My newly purchased A6 TDi is very nice, but I hope it follows the peugeot lead in reliability, rather than the VAG one :-D

The Pugs are also _much_ better to hustle along interesting roads.

We've also had 5 hondas, and never had _any_ problems with those...