kdh

Porsche Turbo 0-60 is around 4.5 seconds I guess.

Can a Subaru offer that sort of performance with a bit of tweaking?

If so, what's the point of owning the Porsche, apart from the badge.

RoyPinhey

Standard type r stats are close to that . . And there arnt many standard type r's out there

scoobygaz1

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Latest 911 turbo s 0-62 is 3.1 so you`ll need a bit more than tweaking

Carnut

£10,000 could get you close but if your feeling flush and have a spare £20,000 plus the price of the car then no one will get in your way with a Porcshe badge.

https://www.scoobynet.com/scoobynet-...e-warning.html

mickywrx

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Seen a couple of classic Imprezas go from 0-160+ in under 9 seconds.

mickywrx

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Meh!

10K can build you a 9s car, including buying it. If you know what you're doing, of course.

http://bbs.22b.com/forums/showthread...oob-in-30-Days

Carnut

If you keep in mind the price of a new 911 turbo (about £150,000 I think. ) you could probably get a new GTR and up it to 1000bhp, if not certainly enough to beat a 911 turbo.

Tidgy

4.5 0-60 is pretty slow, semi tuned scoob will easily do 4 or below.

Paben

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I ran a 996 Porsche turbo for 18 months and I'm quite sure my admittedly non standard Bug would outperform it. Can't say what the latest 991 versions go like though, but the top model is over £140k so not a fair comparison.

Carnut

There was a nice looking blob for sale with Hurst cars a bit back that had a forged engine and 550ish bhp for about £10,000. The 911 turbo has 550bhp but is geared to much higher speeds.

Could you imagine the disappointment if you had just spent £150,000+ on a supercar and a guy with a baseball hat in a 11 year old blob or even a classic gave you a hard time at the lights, maybe even beat you.

RoyPinhey

My boss has a carrera 4s . . Admittedly not a turbo variant but the look on his face when he realised he couldn't catch me was priceless

scoobygaz1

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that's a standard 911 turbo

Carnut

Ive had Subaru's for 11 years and have all been standard apart from a b4 rsk that was about 360bhp but have never had the pleasure of putting it up against a high value sports car my next one I want over 400bhp and hope to wipe the smug look of them m3/rs4 owners. Ive not got a problem, honest.

riza

i have never really been in a tuned impreza but drive lots of 911 and id say that even my fairly standard classic could live with 996turbo but would struggle to touch a 997t and if it was a 991t with pdk(so lc) i would probably hide!

im not saying that there arent impreza's out there that couldnt see one off and boy how id love to own one

Also depends on road and driver because id hazzard a guess that 95% of the 991 you see on the road have never seen more than 0.6 bar of boost which is a real shame :/

gregwill

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I had a little play with a Porsche gt3 when I was in my type20 and that pretty much owned me, it was an animal.

riza

And a turbo would own a gt3

ScottyPPP

I ran into a 997 C4 S the other week. He lost and was mighty pissed off about it too!!

Getting done by a 5 door wagon in your 911 has to hurt though .

scoobygaz1

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I've had a play with a gt2 on a private road and i'm rumning 508 bhp in a classic and was being held up by him the turbo might be a bit different though

kaine19

No rr to prove but i have a v4 import tuned to around 340-350 mark with lc and anti lag. I was trying it out 0-60 times on my phone. Was hard doing it but i got 4 seconds flat. Obviously it will be our but you get the idea

kaine19

Out*

ditchmyster

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Isn't a standard Type R about 3.6 seconds.

I'd say high 400's in a classic and the Porsche would be going nowhere up to about 150mph after that you'll need a hawk gearbox and 600bhp and it's bye, bye Porker, still think I'd rather be in the porsche at those speeds though, well any speed as a matter of fact.

I'd also say that neither are really made for that though, both more about driving pleasure than flat out speed.

stonejedi

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I would rather be in a Subaru at least we know they can take a hit without bursting into flames.SJ.

JGlanzaV

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Reguarly show a clean pair of heels to any porsche I have come across....

Minorly tweaked calssic here...

thunder8

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can,t remember what 911 it was but when i had my 380bhp cossie we had a spirited drive untill the porshe owner asked me to pull over and was fuming going on about a 40k car and he couldn,t pull away from me in my 6k sierra cosworth .he drove off and was ok just cos you drive a porshe don,t mean it all that lol...what he didn,t no was when we pulled over my new 4 paddle clutch was shagged and my new refurbed gearbox had shat itself all over a1 .lol good old aa took me back to harvey gibbs when i told him the story as only left his 3 hrs before he said get it on ramps then no vat on this build lol

MattyB1983

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If that's a standard car then make no mistake, that's a very very quick car. You won't come across many impreza's that will match that, especially not ones in full trim

banny sti

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With the new dual clutch transmissions, the seamless acceleration is very hard to beat with a manual so you best have a sizable pwr advantage

Maz

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The other thing with the Porker is it will do that all day long with consistency and reliability. Granted it's very expensive to buy and hardly comparable to a Scooby in terms of vfm but you've got to admire the engineering.

http://www.carscoops.com/2014/03/how...aunch.html?m=1

LuckyWelshchap

With the weather we have in this country I know which would win most of the time.

Once had a plank in a Range Rover very upset that he was being overtaken on a snow covered dual carriageway by some Japanese car.

And he had the advantage of the used inner lane.

LSherratt

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f1_fan

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Yes but what if you 'mildly tweak' the Porsche? I was at a tuning day a few weeks ago where all manner of expensive machinery was present (SLSs, GTRs, Ferrari California, Gallardo, R8, C63 Black series, EVOs etc. etc.) and by far the fastest accelerating car there was a Porsche 911 Turbo that had been 'breathed on' by a tuning house in Germany.

In fact it is probably the fastest accelerating road car I have ever seen. It also has a Porsche badge on it which means it has true racing pedigree and a shed load of kudos to boot.

Anyway comparing modified Scoobs to proper performance supercars is just silly. As Maz said the Porsche will do it all day long with no worries and has full manufacturer backup into the bargain. Not taking anything away from Scoobs, but let's not compare fillet steak with burgers