The butt hurt is strong in here.
If all of my worldly and sometimes ill-gotten experience is of any use - at the track - anything past the E46 will be in limp mode after 10 laps if you know how to drive, and it will be a pig whether you can or can't. It will go like stink for a while for a big GT though and it's a great place to be on the way into town for beer and ice. My friend Lou races a gutted, heavily modified E92 M3 in BMOD and it has been nothing but trouble to modify (computer issues) and it goes home on the trailer more often than it finishes.
Not a good track car IMO. Attempts to make it one are more costly than buying a better car. 997s are about the same $, no less expensive to fix but way better at what you are looking for.
I'm not knocking the Hoff -- his bedside manner toward the marques is a trademark of all of the excellent euro mechanics I've ever known.
My issue isn't so much the cost of maintenance, it's that so much of what can go wrong is beyond my ability to DIY. It takes so much specialist knowledge, equipment, and tooling to fix new cars (especially exotics.) If you know that going in, no biggie. But you need a GOOD indie shop on call if something bad does happen.
You can't tell the difference between an excellent and mediocre mechanic by the invoice. It all books the same, and you get to spin the wheel and see. There are a lot of mechanics in this space that will butcher the job and blame the car.
Huckleberry wrote:
997s are about the same $, no less expensive to fix but way better at what you are looking for.
That's an interesting thought I hadn't considered. But it seems even crazier for some reason.
