Porsche 718 loaner car

[ZBB]

It’s been a couple years now since I last had a loaner from Tesla.

They moved to providing Uber credit instead, but I had the car in for regular service (coming up on 4 years, so a couple of things like the cabin air filter needed to be done). But Tesla now only provides Uber credit if a service will take more than 4& hours!

[wdc330i]

Originally Posted by Josh (PA)

That car looks to be very nicely spec'ed. Was there a window sticker with it? That's an exciting loaner. I would carve out a couple hours of my day for an extended test drive too. At our Porsche Dealer, I've only gotten Cayene loaners and they re-affirmed how much better X5s are both on value and daily usability. At my local BMW place, they've been loaner limited - it takes a couple months for an appointment with a loaner. I got an older 7 series with 97k miles that was still rock solid and then an X2 that was a complete PITA.

The X2 really seems like garbage. The worst of all BMW missteps.

[Alan]

That is a really cool loaner, I can't believe it's a manual ... the reason I have the Cayman is because the dealer gave me one as a Loaner and I really enjoyed it.

[SCA]

No Monroney sticker and VIN Analytics wanted $13 to decode the VIN. I was not about to pay that for a car that is not mine or potentially going to be mine. I put about 55 to 60 miles on it today. It is not a bad car when in sport mode with sport exhaust activated as it makes a significant difference. Ironically the exhaust sounded a ton better in sport mode than sport plus. No clue what that is about?

Hopping back into my 13 year old 911 definitely made it feel like a dinosaur. This morning I was like this car sucks (Boxster S) in comparison to my 997.2 and then I hopped back in the my car just an hour or so ago and I thought, damn that new four-cylinder Boxster is pretty sweet!

One thing is certain… Porsche dealer service is expensive! Everything I had performed today was a grand with the PCA discount of 10% applied. The updated NAV is a night and day difference. It literally improved it by 10 or 11 years. Before and after pics attached below.

Edit: Added one last pic of the 718.

[wdc330i]

I think our Mudgeons getting 6-cylinder 718s are going to be very happy…

[SCA]

Originally Posted by wdc330i

I think our Mudgeons getting 6-cylinder 718s are going to be very happy…

No doubt…

[Theo]

Originally Posted by wdc330i

I think our Mudgeons getting 6-cylinder 718s are going to be very happy…

Very jealous but for the price I hope to god so! =)

[lemming]

Originally Posted by SCA

No Monroney sticker and VIN Analytics wanted $13 to decode the VIN. I was not about to pay that for a car that is not mine or potentially going to be mine. I put about 55 to 60 miles on it today. It is not a bad car when in sport mode with sport exhaust activated as it makes a significant difference. Ironically the exhaust sounded a ton better in sport mode than sport plus. No clue what that is about?

Hopping back into my 13 year old 911 definitely made it feel like a dinosaur. This morning I was like this car sucks (Boxster S) in comparison to my 997.2 and then I hopped back in the my car just an hour or so ago and I thought, damn that new four-cylinder Boxster is pretty sweet!

One thing is certain… Porsche dealer service is expensive! Everything I had performed today was a grand with the PCA discount of 10% applied. The updated NAV is a night and day difference. It literally improved it by 10 or 11 years. Before and after pics attached below.

Edit: Added one last pic of the 718.

For some reason in the cars, backfire is programmed in Sport mode. But not for Sport Plus.

In AMG models, you don’t get backfires unless you’re in Sport Plus.

Who knows why? I don’t.

Cool loaner.

[SCA]

Originally Posted by lemming

For some reason in the cars, backfire is programmed in Sport mode. But not for Sport Plus.

In AMG models, you don’t get backfires unless you’re in Sport Plus.

Who knows why? I don’t.

Cool loaner.

Thanks for the info. Now I know…

This is basically the build of the loaner car that I had yesterday: http://www.porsche-code.com/PPARPR78

[JST]

That’s GTS money!