AerialAndy wrote:
Blimey Nifty your're just getting greedy now and turning to the dark side aswell
You've got another fantastic car in your collection, isn't the '44 quick enough these days
Happy Boooosting
It's a sad day when a man of old morals has to change but.. well here is the question and my response from the PCGB forum:(I think this post sums it up best)
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ORIGINAL: Lowtimer
Forgive me for interloping into the 996 zone but I would be very interested in hearing how you might describe the comparison between your 996tt and the 3.2 944T, in terms of punch.Or indeed the comparison with your current red 944T.
Haha. You are most welcome here it seems many old school 944 turbos owners are looking for 996s at the moment. Their current price is encouraging new interest amongst those in the know.
I was hoping no one would ask me that question. It's a hard thing to compare. Firstly I think there is a level of fast at some point beyond which things are just 'quick' and its very hard to determine whether one car is faster than another. You feel the G-force, know you're in something serious and that's as much as your brain needs to know.
The red 944t and the 996tt are like chalk and cheese. I'm fairly certain if I was following myself in the 996 with the 944 I could keep up on the public road no matter how fast I drove (in the dry), definitely for overtaking in short bursts you could sit up behind the 996 on full throttle but the 996 has such a massive power band that if you were to go flat out through the full length of a couple of gears (e.g. accelerating up a slip road and out onto the motorway) it would start to pull away.
You would feel like you earned that pace a thousand times more in the seat of the 944. You would be working the car, feeling the grip, the weight of the car, and concentrating every ounce on getting the perfect gear change to keep the car on boost and not interrupt the grip where in the 996tt it would feel pretty effortless to drive similarly close to the limits of the cars ability. As a result you would never keep up in the wet. The car 'may' be physically capable with a perfect driver but no man is going to push a car consistently as close to the limit in a 944 as you would in the solid feeling 4wheel drive 996.
The 3.2ltr 944 turbo was a lot closer in character to the 996 turbo, its delivery although brutal if you sit at 4000rpm and mash the pedal was so smooth through the rev range that its extremely easy to exploit the power and make phenomenal progress in both cars. The natural balance and stability of the car may even make it slightly faster if it was set up correctly than the 996 round a track. I think it really did have potential to beat one.
We are however coming to the famous Clarkson 'but' of this review and that is that value removed from the equation I am now certain, absolutely 100% sure I would take the 996 over the 944. I'm sorry, and with everything else I've owned, even if it was better in some respects, no other car has topped my love for the 944 but the 996 has won over my top spot. Both cars car be used both as a daily driver, both are a fantastic place to be on a long journey, both make me want to get up early just to go for a drive and both are extremely capable track cars but I can sum up the difference in three very simply elements. Power, the 996 turbo is as fast as anything I've ever driven or been in, even in its standard form running a modest/reliable 0.6-0.7 bar boost. With merely a chip it has the potential to be easily the quickest car I've ever known. Quality, it encourages an air of confidence like the standard 944, which means you know you can enjoy it without a feeling of guilt that every time you go for a good drive you're risking breaking something. Character, and in the end its the imperfections that win it for me. That light front end skipping wide as you hit a bump on the exit of a corner, the feeling on occasion that you are driving a triangle with a back end twice as wide as the front and just the way the car reacts and feels at your finger tips gives the 911 a character that defines the driving experience. In the 996 it manages to maintain that but without compromising any of the cars abilities. Overall I feel like I've done a poor job of justifying just how good the 996 is as a car to own but basically I absolutely love it!
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The pic was taken by someone else but I like it.
Just waiting on her coming. I have told my wife in advance this time after the last Porsche purchasing incident ( it's costing me a new kitchen 
) Anyway, a couple of picks from the sellers advert.