Give up a 991 GT3 for a Superformance 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.