Slightly late for work, so moving "smartly" ( ) round the dual carriageways in the Docklands area, came up behind a Y reg Porche Carrera that was absolutely hooning it between roundabouts, so much that his spoiler came up (so someone out there will know what speed but IIRC its about 75) but when it came to the roundabouts he'd slow down to absolutely nothing tiptoe round before hooning it again. Needless to say I caught up with him by keeping a constant speed & faster round the roundabouts and eventually overtook in a benign flow of traffic moment. Thought nothing of it other than here was someone with a Porche that can't go round corners I was parking up when the same Porche happened to pass my office & he rolled down his window & said -

"You should slow down you should!"

LOL - I couldn't help but laugh!

 

Was this in PTMW! or the Vectra? There's a 40 mph limit all the way down there -- ridiculous it is. No pedestrians, and it's just straight line, roundabout, straight line, 'pretend' roundabout (doesn't go all the way round), straight line, roundabout. You can make considerable gains on someone by not slowing down for the roundabouts.

 

Excellent!

Had a couple of good experiences myself in the last few days. The first was on one of my local dual carriageways, which has nice roundabouts every 1/2 mile or so. At the start of the dual carriageway I noticed a police T5 in the distance with the blue lights on, obviously on a call somewhere. I was having a nice spirited drive but was chatting to the other half at the same time. At the other end of the dual carriageway it occurred to me that I'd caught up the T5.

The second was last night, a friend of a friend came down on the possibility of buying one of my motorbikes, in his Boxster S. As it's a company demo car it has all the options, including a sweet-sounding sports exhaust. After he'd checked the bike out we went out for a jaunt in the Boxster with the roof down - what a car that is! I absolutely loved it! It pulled sooo nicely, not much quicker than the scoob, but the sound was just fantastic, especially on the overrun.

Unfortunately I can't afford one...

Whip
(can't afford a Boxster, boohoo)

 

Carl

The Vectra Turbo Diesel

 

 

Puff,

Obviously you *SHOULD* slow down m8!!!!!! If you overtook a Porcshe then you are clearly driving too fast.......
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LOL

Matt

 

would have been funnier if you overtook him sideways WAVE

 

Perhaps the Porsche owner was a dog owner....

Unfortunately, one of my dogs gets car sick if I pile the P1 through the corners. As a result when travelling with the mutt I have to drive v gently through the bends or face the consequences.

The other week I had a 306 GTi-6 chasing me. He must have thought he was following a right lemon. Fact was at the time I had just got out the surf and was wearing nothing but a wet pair of trunks. The dog was in the car as was the surfboard (Amazing that you can fit a 7foot 8 surfboard inside the P1) both of which were swinging round the corners.

So.... if the P driver only had his wet speedos on that might explain it.

 

The 911 spoiler comes up at about 45mph!

 

Hi Puff

having had several porkers in the past the rear spoiler raises at 75mph and lowers again once speed is reduced to 45-50mph. However there is a bypass switch that can keep the spoiler raised until as such time the engine is switched off.

Just made up some wax for you as per our conversation and will send out to once it has set. ;-) plus a pinkie cloth

 

scoobypig That's the speed for VW Corrados

Besides, at 45 he'd not be pulling away...

Mark - looking forward to the pink cloth

 

Slighty off topic but I remember reading that in the USA the spoiler of a 911 raises at 55mph to prevent the drivers automatically being done for speeding, either that or vanity

 

how can the spoiler rasing stop you getting done - I thought the idea was the spoiler came up to create more downforce to make it stick to road when going faster!

 

...because if the speed at which the spoiler rises is above the legal speed limit, then driving around with a raised spoiler is a clear indication that you are exceeding the speed limit

 

thanks carl

 

except that tehre is a manual override so you can raise ti whenever you like.

 

Why do porkers need this at all? Why not keep the spoiler deployed at all times?