Good! That's actually the answer I was hoping for. You don't see many Carrera Ts around. I had my hopes up for a 992.1 GT3 allocation at the dealer where I bought my GT4, but I was not high enough on the list for that generation, so my "spot" (hopefully) rolled over to the 992.2 gen. Which is now crazy expensive. And IMHO less attractive than the prior gen.
TL DR I have been considering the T as a "poor man's GT3" but even the T is now quite expensive...
Curious to hear thoughts on the Carrera T. Whether it is worth the price of entry, or a prior-gen GT3 is a better bet.
Yes, the TTs are insane cars, but I think again the usable performance debate reappears in that context.
I posted a little bit about it in another thread but he's some takeaways.
The power is definitely more usable on normal roads and you are able to use all of it before you're going to jail.
Typical Porsche fashion the car handles like it's on rails. I'm still trying to find the limit, but it's well beyond what I feel comfortable attempting on mountain roads.
The 7MT is good (when it's good), notchy but it's not on the same level as the 6MT. I have to mentally think and adjust how much pressure to use in order to get to 4th, 5th and 6th gears. Plenty of times I've needed to downshift to 6th and it'll snap to 4th or I'll hit the gate between 4th and 6th because I didn't put pressure towards 6th. I now find myself skipping 7th gear most times because of this (unless I'm above 75mph). It's almost impossible to go from 7th to 5th because of the spring pressure. Every time I try I end up hitting 3rd. So it's come down to if I need to drop gears for whatever reason, I just rapid fire 7 > 6 > 5 > 4. It's gotten quite tedious.
The ride is on the firm side of things. It's not terrible but it's not great depending on the road surface. Also, it's loud as hell inside, not from engine noise but road noise.
There are a surprising amount of rattles in the car. You would think for what you pay, it would be solid but yeah no. My 2012 Camaro SS had less rattles at 19k miles before I traded it in because I couldn't deal with them. I've narrowed it down to somewhere in the door panels and I think the extended range fuel tank when it's full. Which I understand has a recall for.
The brakes are solid, they have tons of power to stop the car but you will start to notice you need a little extra pedal pressure once you give them a good workout on the mountain roads.
The 911T is definitely a capable car. BUT I think it's a capable car for those that can afford to just "deal" with it's faults. I am not one of those people. The dealership has had possession of my car for more than half of my ownership because of random things. For instance the dealership had my car for over a week because apparently a pebble lodged itself in one of the front radiator fans inside the wheel well and it was causing the fan to make a grinding noise every time it tried to activate for cooling.
Spending what I did on the car and it having more dealership ventures, and rattles than I care to endure is why it's going up for sale. Someone else can deal with all of that. At least it's CPO'd out to 2030 so any more issues that pop up will be covered for a long time.
