Porsche GT3 a good buy? Driving the gumball 3000 next year.
 

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Is the porsche GT3 a good buy?

This one would go for 799 thousand swedish kronor.


about $560K

Is the car a good buy or is there better cars for that prize?

Im planning on buying this or maby a MB SLK.

Will be used to drive the gumball 3000 next year.

Anyone own any of these cars?

They still have that race?

They most definitly do!!

:)

www.gumball3000.com

Runs every year.

Raceman here at GFY is driving his 5th race this year.

Would be great to drive the gumball, and I think the Gt3 would handle it mint as. Think it'd rather that then the SLK.

Just my opinion thou.....

Get the new MB SL 600, then have some work done to it.

The Gumball is the best ! Good Luck !

This years race does from...

The Event follows a 3000 mile route that begins in romantic Paris (France), and travels south via Biarritz (France) and the Pyrenees mountain range to Madrid (Spain) (see David Beckham), en route to Marbella?s Golden Mile (Spain) before crossing the Mediterranean Sea into Africa to Marrakech (Morocco). After partying with the King of Morocco and negotiating the Sahara Desert the route then returns to Europe heading to Barcelona (Spain) to catch the Formula One Grand Prix before finishing with a major party in Cannes back in the South of France. For those of you wishing to party for another week the famous Cannes film festival begins the following day

But I cant attend to this one since I dont have the money yet :)

But will next year for sure :)

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Great looking cars :thumbsup

Yeah I kind of fell in love with that one :)

Always wanted a ferrari but that one looks really sweet!

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This one?

When is it this year?

In may.

The 2004 Gumball 3000 Rally (the ?Event?) takes place between Tuesday 4th ? Monday 10th May

Yes, check out the specs

SL600 Roadster
Twin-turbocharged 36-valve 5.5L V-12 engine
493 hp @ 5,000 rpm
590 lb-ft @ 1,800 - 3,500 rpm
0-60 mph in 4.5 seconds

MSRP: $126,970.00*

Then you can get a turbo kit to bump the power a bit.

Checked out the site. Like to get a copy of the DVD. I wonder if they sell it here in the US.

Im pretty sure they send to the states.

Or maby even sell them over there :glugglug

You can download it off kazaa. I had it for a while but deleted it. Lots of speeding tickets.

An official announcement is to folllow soon, but me, and another GFYer will be at this years gumball representing full time :)
A website will be created with daily updates, pics, and videos, etc etc.

p.s. GT3 is a great great car, but not very 'everyday' sort of car.. for the price, consider a p.turbo... same speed, but more comfy (softer suspension, higher ride height) equally awesome looks, AWD, etc etc.

Who from gfy wil attend this year then?

I only know about raceman.

people asking advices on gfy board about purchasing $560k car
...and i thought I seen it all

Meaning what?

which kind of answer u r expected there ?:)

Well I acctually wanted to know..

There are alot of cars out there who cost just as much.

And I wanted some advices about that car but also some cars in the same price range.

And I got one example the MB sl 600 for example.

i would probably go with the SLR..... :)

anyone know where Gumball 2005 will be held??

Well first off the GT3 is a wonderfull track day car and weekend play thing, but I would not do the Gumball in one, in standard form way to stiff, yours eyes will of fallen out of their sockets by the end of the event.

And where you get $560k from I dont know, they are about Euro 90/110k new and I have seen versions second hand with little miles on the clock in the UK for £56k.

One of the best "motoring" YV show's on the planet id on UK TV and they have their own track next to the studios, its called "TOP GEAR" they took the GT3 around the track in damp conditions and it beat evrything else to the point they where going to bring it back and do it again on a full dry track.


RACEMAN :thumbsup

Raceman, what car/cars did you do gumball in? I watched the DVD last week and I am addicted :)

Sloane, I did ask Gumball where next years rally would be but as typical of Maximillion (owner/organisor) you will not get anything from him until about Sept/Oct 2004.

Max thinks of the routes, then goes and drives them himself first, he personally checks out all the hotels on route (Only the top hotels are used) thewn us Gumballers get to know about it.

Last time I chatted to Max he was thinking about doing 2 a year, 1 in Europe and one in the US but that would take some mamouth organising.


RACEMAN :thumbsup

I would go to the one in the US, especially if it was here in Texas.

Raceman, do you have an pics yourself of the race?

Goddamn that makes me want to cream my pants.

Raceman, 2 a year would be good! How hard is it to get in now? I read they give previous racers priority first, then choose the most exotic cars after that?? There must be thousands of applicants now with all the publicity.

man are you kidding me or what ? $560k for gt3 ? What the fuck ?
and since when mb600 is the same league as porshe gt3 ?

for the gumball Id be driving the sl600 over the gt3 anyday

do you want the RACING sportscar ?
get the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR (2004 y.)
about $280k , believe me I know what I'm talking about.

me too :)

WOW so many questions to answer...........

Well you are right about the entry list its not easy to get on board, but I did post here last year to get some interest in the early days of the entry list, if I do know that people are really interested (and not just pretending to want to do it) I can go to Maximillion and get a block booking.

I think that once you guys have seen the website we are putting up for this year and the pic's and vid's we aim to post back to GFY during the course of the event you guys will ave such hard on's to do it we might have a great "porn industry" team for 2005.

I now of 3 other GFY'ers that really want to do it next year but we shall see.


RACEMAN :thumbsup

Power at low RPM :thumbsup I love that

let's talk torque

cool Raceman, looking forward to seeing your website!

Would love to make it for 2005 :)

This year we are going to do it in a ............ ........ I'm not telling you, you guys will have to wait and see "he he he he he"


RACEMAN :thumbsup

Hej Cumsensei, Really cool to drive gumball 3000,
the porche is a good car, why not a mitsubishi 3000 twink turbo :)
mitsubishi 3000 goes good with gumball 3000 :)

Also I guess ya meant the car will go for $105K
I would accually buy a car in germany, very good prices there!

kolla in, se.mobile.de

Dude, I would never drive a car that has a twink turbo. Isn't that kinda gay?

I only say one thing.

Fiat 500 with a porsche engine. That's my dream :thumbsup

ohh you can tell us :)

ok how about the cars you drove previous years?

Did you meet the blonde english girl in the Black Lambo in the race from San Fran to Miami? DAMN!!!

ahhh man :) now thats was 1 fuckedup typo......:1orglaugh

the gumball race is nice. esp. in germany where you can drive as fast as you want.

cayne in Gumball 2000 one guy got his Ferrari 550 confiscated doing 210 mph on the A5 heading out of Switzerland into Germany towards Hockenhiem, its was pissing down with rain as well and he was doing that speed on the hard shoulder "he he he he he he"


RACEMAN <---- GYF's resident Gumball guru

I'd definately go for the Porsche, looks 10x better than the MB :2 cents:

Thats a fucking sweet looking Porsche.

Take the Porsche. :thumbsup

Looks wise, I definitely go with the Porsche.

Hey Sloane, I'll dig out some pic's and post them for you


RACEMAN