Iīm looking forward to hear more about Akrapovic system, difference in sound and power gain.

My car is still at the tunerīs shop and I am waiting for an answer to update to stage 4 if the difference is ECU & Secan ICīs. CG reduced the stage 4 price just after I installed stage 3

 

Guys, just a friendly reminder. This is the 997.2 Turbo thread...

 

Hi Mark

I should have a better idea on Friday. But I have seen on some other posts that the manufacturing start date for the S in the UK has slipped by two months. Time will tell.

 

Last week I test drove the 997.2 Turbo. What a car. And today I finally took the plunge, put down a 10% deposit and ordered my Turbo S. Ice Blue Metallic with blue/black interior. The dealer said that I should hear in the next week or two about build date. Now the wait.

 

No problem...have deleted my non 997.2 posts.

 

Congrats, gerbs!

 

Great looking car.....but shame about the $ increase. Typical Ausie pricing huh. I'm sticking it out in my 997tt.1 till 991tt arrives thanks. Cant see myself suffering too much meantime . Now...if this was the states...and one of these could be had for 170k then no worries. I'll take 2.

 

I would do the same. But then again we do live in the land of plenty. Taxes that is.

 

Yup...they sure know how to clean out a motorist's wallet. Always comming up with new ideas too. It's as if we are the only means for tax income revenue . Now if only they took a leaf out of the states (USA) book we'd be a whole lot happier i'm sure.

 

Got word my car might arrive late August. Every day counts..........

 

Good news mhh. Hope time flies until her arrival. Don't forget the piccy's.

Mine is still months away as you know. Hopefully no more IBM related delays. Will be in touch with the dealer next week to see if he has the new MkII build date.

 

You Aussie's staying out of trouble over here in the corner?

BTW, when you guys talk about prices are we talking US$, Yen, or AU$? $450k seems a tad much. You guys must be making $10k a week over there.

 

AU$. 10k per week - I wish . The reason cars cost so much over here is because we end up paying 43% tax on a car like this (10% GST and 43% LCT)

 

That's why I went for the S. To give me time to save the $.

 

Staying out of trouble? Never!!
Yeah Ruf over here it sure costs to own a new 997tt. Some lucky fella is taking a fair old lump out of us along the way and that doesnt include the 5% import duty + 33% luxury car tax + 5% stamp duty plus rego. So if you look at what you guys pay..$150,000 USD for a new P turbo car car, then convert that into A$ at say @.83cents thats 180,722K then add 5% = 189759K then add 33% LCT = 252379.00K + 5% stamps=$264,998.00K = dealer delivery and rego at say 6k = 270,998.47K
So a new 997tt.2 with pdk, and some decent options is @ 440K drive away with discount then that means theres another $169,002.00 being tacked on somewhere. Gulp!! Now if we were making $10.00 per week....helllp!! We'd be all riding scooters and pushbikes.
I think in general Aussie salarys are pretty much on par with you guys. Yeh one could say you Americans are lucky with your cars. I guess that accounts for the numbers of these toys over your way VS the tiny numbers over here .