Give up a 991 GT3 for a Superformance GT40?

[4pipes]

I believe #3170's post was implying the GT3 was miles ahead in performance and safety technology than the GT40.

[Mark IV]

Originally Posted by 4pipes

I believe #3170's post was implying the GT3 was miles ahead in performance and safety technology than the GT40.

Absolutely! But the GT40 is not about current performance or comfort levels, rather it is about driving something from a time when the ABS system was connected via the drivers right foot and his brain. The traction control worked the same way. There was no electronic suspension adjustments and in fact no way to adjust the brake bias without crawling into the footwell.

The payoff is you are driving a legend. A car that the best drivers of the mid-sixties raced and won with. It is a car that rewards the driver with performance based upon the level of driver input. It is a car that is surprisingly comfortable (for a race car) with a rather compliant ride and handling that when properly set up is pretty vice free.

It will leak water in the rain. It will clunk and thunk. It will start in an understeering mode and move to tail out with proper application of power. And it will make you grin so hard that hours later people will wonder what you have been up to!

[Ace23]

Originally Posted by Mark IV

Absolutely! But the GT40 is not about current performance or comfort levels, rather it is about driving something from a time when the ABS system was connected via the drivers right foot and his brain. The traction control worked the same way. There was no electronic suspension adjustments and in fact no way to adjust the brake bias without crawling into the footwell.

The payoff is you are driving a legend. A car that the best drivers of the mid-sixties raced and won with. It is a car that rewards the driver with performance based upon the level of driver input. It is a car that is surprisingly comfortable (for a race car) with a rather compliant ride and handling that when properly set up is pretty vice free.

It will leak water in the rain. It will clunk and thunk. It will start in an understeering mode and move to tail out with proper application of power. And it will make you grin so hard that hours later people will wonder what you have been up to!

You completely forgot to mention they don't go out of style and they don't really depreciate if you buy a used one. For me nothing could be worse than buying a new car for $150k and the taking immaculate care of it while losing 80k over the next 5 years.

[Bernica]

Here ya go...

Porsche 918 Spyder Meets 911 R

[Bernica]

Here you go....the real deal with just over 1,200 miles.
AND it's white!

https://www.mecum.com/lots/PA0716-25...eeed-112944301

[MHNCO]

Originally Posted by Bernica

Here you go....the real deal with just over 1,200 miles.
AND it's white!

https://www.mecum.com/lots/PA0716-25...eeed-112944301

The real deal lol! Only if you just fell off the turnip truck... Never mind

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by MHNCO

The real deal lol! Only if you just fell off the turnip truck... Never mind

Just because Ford didn't want to pay Safir to buy the name "GT40" doesn't make the Ford GT less of a car than your replica. There's a reason why a used SPF GT40 replica is $130,000 and a Ford GT is $250,000-350,000 ish.

You could actually drive off the lot of your local Ford dealer with a warranty in 2005-2006 after buying a Ford GT. An SPF GT40 needs a special exemption from the government and delivery to someone like Olthoff to complete it before it can run on the roads.