Today's new vehicles are very well made, but because they're stuffed full of chips, they're also making us passengers in our own cars.
’s sublime Continental GT V8 during the past few months. All fabulous. But in each one I had the uncanny sense that I wasn’t fully the master of my own destiny. Something was always interfering: thousands of those ruddy chips.
Now he’s looking for a new car, and I’m trying to persuade him to buy a Porsche 911 from the 997 generation, built between 2004 and 2013. If I were him, I’d start researching the GT3 iteration, introduced in 2006. Once described as “the best handling car in America” byit could do zero to 60 mph in around four seconds and stopped short of 200 mph by a whisker. And the best bit? A manual gearbox, one operated exclusively by a human being.
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