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Bloody Fantastic Porsche Carrera GT Video
by Gunnar Heinrich ::: YouTube ::: Porsche Carrera GT Video
JUST listen to the Scottish host say “six hundred and twelve brake horsepower” when discussing the magnificent Porsche Carrera GT. Scratch that. How about just him speaking “power” which sounds more like “Pouerrrr.” It’s enough to amuse this Yank to no end.
Scotland rocks. As does the Carrera GT.
Anywhoo, take a wee gander at this bloody great film featuring the Porsche’s onetime flagship. It’s a corporate showcase of what some say was the last decade’s best supercar. Hard to know without driving Carrera GT and the Enzo back-to-back but we can live vicariously, can’t we?
Through a wily Scot, no less.
Porsche’s Unapologetic Family Tree Ad
By Gunnar Heinrich | YouTube
FROM what dreams may come?
This is a sharp, slickly edited advert for the Porsche Panamera. The tag line: “four uncompromised.”
The production ticks off all the goodies in a tight package: namely showcasing the new four door GT – the Panamera – midst a delightful circus of whizzing flat-6 turbos, claiming its place in a line of thoroughbred performance and race cars while referencing the early ambitions of the company’s eponymous founder- Dr. Ferry Porsche.
In so much that the Carrera GT gets plenty of camera time, you have to feel a little wistful for Porsche’s now-discontinued super car.
Arancio Borealis Pearl Metallic Porsche Carrera GT on eBay
arancio + borealis + pearl + metallic equals hot orange Porsche Carrera GT
By Gunnar Heinrich
THERE are only 600 or so Porsche Carrera GTs in the United States. And that number accounts for nearly half of the total fleet of Carrera GTs that Stuttgart built from 2004 to 2005.
Of those 600 or so, I’ve only witnessed one (1) Carrera GT in action. It happened on the Macarthur Causeway in Miami. The moment the silver metallic roadster appeared in my rearview, it was all I could do to register the car before another blast from the V10 rocketed the Porsche forward into the night.
I was left salivating onto my steering wheel in awe.
Most Porsches (with the exception of the Cayenne SUV) are what I’d like to call “everyday exotics”. Seldom do we see Stuttgart (or Leipzig, to be specific) actually manufacture a full-blooded, honest-to-God, Murcielago flaunting supercar. The Carrera GT is just that car. And now that no more are being made, you’d think it’d be a collector’s item for being so rare.
Rarer still are these Porsches actually seen on most roads. And if they are spied, it’s usually in that silver metallic that was deemed by most German designers as that “way-of-the-future” color.
It works, but as an exception not a rule.
No, a better rule is having your Carrera GT in “arancio borealis pearl metallic”. “Aranico” is Italian for “orange”.
Priced as new it was $485,260. A Vegas dealer is seeing a current (as of 2/9/09) bid of $345,100 for a garage princess with 233 miles that lives in the Buckeye State. The reserve hasn’t been met. What price orange pearlescent Teutonic hotness; one of only 600? Arancio, anyone?
[Linked: eBay]
