I just have no idea what to do...
So last Sunday I found the perfect spec, mileage, colour, priced 991 GTS. Got excited (that means left eyebrow raised a little) and spoke to the wife to start the internal selling process..
Spoke to OPC on Monday, got some prices which subject to negotiation are very very doable so all good. Got chatting and as usual I knew quite a few of their customers and one of them is local to the dealer, which is a good 200 miles from me. I call him and of course get the "No problem Housey, know them well I'll head over now and drive it for you, I can see their place from my office." Perfect, trusted once over from a mate save me the job.
Then it goes wrong.... Mate is like me, he was one of the buddies I went racing with and was part of our team. He is a GT3 nut, currently has a 991, had a Mk1 996 with Manthey engine, has a 991 RS coming, so he did what I would do...Turns up at dealer, has some coffee and a chat about the world and life and then goes for a drive. As he pulls back in he sees the GT4 and thinks "I need a go in that" and off he goes for another blast. Later in the day I get the call....
"Housey the GTS is lovely, looks fab, lovely inside, 5 dials dash, quick, gorgeous.......but **** me that GT4, what a car. Steering from the gods"......"So which one would you have mate?"......"Oh easy he says.........GT4". Ahhhhhhh
So now I start the well if I am having a GTS, why not pay a bit more and have a GT3....you know it's worth it. Numbers tell a different story and frankly I don't want to spend that much so I have discounted the 991 GT3 as a 'future' for when they drop in price, which they will when the R and Gen 2 arrive, feel positive. So then I start the GT4 discussion AGAIN. Now these are circa 25-30K overs from OPC's and frankly I have never paid overs for a car and personally I just struggle with concept, but I am coming around to it if I can haggle. But what all this has done has taken my interest off the GTS again an I am sitting here wonder WTF to do.
I want a car that makes me get up at 4am on a Sunday and just go, Wales, Scotland, Italy wherever. I am not sure the GTS will do that, I am not convinced the GT4 will do that so I am now in the hold pattern AGAIN. I am not going to buy 'some car' it needs to be right. I did look at the nice GT3 Gen 2 in JZM but that has horrid red transmission tunnel and I know these 65K were 18 months ago and fear they will be again soon. Bath time will come on these cars, 100% and the lack of call back from JZM has also put me off.
First world problems but I have NEVER been this indecisive in my life. Mojo is wrecked and think I shall crawl into a ball and suck my thumb for the rest of the month. I have taken counseling from loads of mates over the week but they are ******* useless as they are either the same or completely opposite to one another.
Going to wait again.....but I NEED power and excitement back in my life. I don't want to go 996 again, I don't really want to go 997 Gen 1 so just need to wait until the 997's/991's start hemorrhaging cash.
