Chris H
26-09-2006, 09:41 AM
Guys
I've just got back from probably the best corporate event I've been on. Flown out to Stuttgart along with 23 others to be presented in the equivalent of a square at Canary Wharf with keys to one of 12 Porsches that would be ours to drive around the Black Forest for 2 days! I felt like a superstar picking up the first one (996 C2 cab with sports pack) and driving off in front of an admiring crowd of German office workers on their lunch break. After notching up close to 250kph on the autobahn we swapped over at lunch to a very tidy 997 C2. That afternoon took us up into the forests of Baden Baden, around all the gloriously twisty roads, to the Schloss Hotel (where the England footy team stayed). One of the Porsche's was a modified 996 turbo with 540bhp! I knew I had to have a drive of this car before the end of the tour, so I got up early the next day, was first in breakfast, first out of breakfast, first to check-out and then I duped the hotel staff into giving me the box of keys for all the cars that were lined up at the entrance. Found the right key, popped my bag in the back to make no mistake and then held on to the key until everyonelse arrived! My god, was it worth it..... I have never driven any road going car that was as quick as that - the acceleration was mind boggling and made any overtaking opportunity possible and sometimes made me laugh that I even considered whether I would have enough room with some of them. The handling was superb - harsh, but hugged the road like it was on rails. I managed to get conveniently lost in the forest roads, and turned up an hour and a half late for lunch :roll: They took the keys away to let someonelse have a drive back to stuttgart, but at least I was given a 997 C4S in return.
I have to say that I am still smitten with the enormous punch of that 996 turbo....hmmm...can I have both the Z3M and the 911 turbs please?!!
Couple of pictures below (no guesses which one's the turbo in the 2nd photo):
http://www.z3mcoupe.com/photopost/data//500/560DSC03500.JPG
http://www.z3mcoupe.com/photopost/data//500/560DSC03503.JPG
I've just got back from probably the best corporate event I've been on. Flown out to Stuttgart along with 23 others to be presented in the equivalent of a square at Canary Wharf with keys to one of 12 Porsches that would be ours to drive around the Black Forest for 2 days! I felt like a superstar picking up the first one (996 C2 cab with sports pack) and driving off in front of an admiring crowd of German office workers on their lunch break. After notching up close to 250kph on the autobahn we swapped over at lunch to a very tidy 997 C2. That afternoon took us up into the forests of Baden Baden, around all the gloriously twisty roads, to the Schloss Hotel (where the England footy team stayed). One of the Porsche's was a modified 996 turbo with 540bhp! I knew I had to have a drive of this car before the end of the tour, so I got up early the next day, was first in breakfast, first out of breakfast, first to check-out and then I duped the hotel staff into giving me the box of keys for all the cars that were lined up at the entrance. Found the right key, popped my bag in the back to make no mistake and then held on to the key until everyonelse arrived! My god, was it worth it..... I have never driven any road going car that was as quick as that - the acceleration was mind boggling and made any overtaking opportunity possible and sometimes made me laugh that I even considered whether I would have enough room with some of them. The handling was superb - harsh, but hugged the road like it was on rails. I managed to get conveniently lost in the forest roads, and turned up an hour and a half late for lunch :roll: They took the keys away to let someonelse have a drive back to stuttgart, but at least I was given a 997 C4S in return.
I have to say that I am still smitten with the enormous punch of that 996 turbo....hmmm...can I have both the Z3M and the 911 turbs please?!!
Couple of pictures below (no guesses which one's the turbo in the 2nd photo):
http://www.z3mcoupe.com/photopost/data//500/560DSC03500.JPG
http://www.z3mcoupe.com/photopost/data//500/560DSC03503.JPG