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Had the 911 two years now - just picked it up from my local friendly Porsche specialist after its annual service and MOT.

Pondering on the running costs - not too dear and all due this month.


Service and MOT £270 (same as last year)
Tax due £345
Insurance due £272
Other costs since purchase two years (exc fuel) £99 tracker activation.
No other parts or repairs but got an advisory on one front tyre.

It would be a different story if using the main dealer, but would imagine southern 911 owners will be crying into their seven quid pints.

Get thee behind me Satan. That looks v nice.

I suspect there are a wide variety of financial experiences available in the Morgan Vs Porsche 911 in terms of maintenance/repair as well as the realities in terms of sports car driving, which I suspect the Morgan seems the obvious winner, given the Porsche is more of a GT in the original meaning of those letters of the alphabet combined...(-:

The costs of servicing, repairs and insurance costs of my mid 80`s +8 over twenty years, is but a fraction of the similar costs to that of my 991.1 C4S, for the six years or so I have owned it, the Morgan having covered many more miles too..

As ever, each to their own.. (-:

Nice to see a Porsche logo on something other than an SUV.....

I think that is my favourite shape of the 99X.X generations, might be a bit wide for the roads down here mind you!

The size thing is a huge problem really. On Saturday we had a weird looking lime greeny yellow sporty car behind with ugly double decker headlamps. It passed us on the M18, and it was huge, and better looking from behind. But way too wide. That was a Lotus. I tried to figure out which one, and failed.

I know they have got bigger over the decades, but even the wider bodied Porsches are still relatively compact compared to other sport cars, so I can get one in the garage besides the Morgan.

I think a McLaren for instance, would be about ten centimetres wider.

A bit of a rant....

Not only the vehicles which have become larger, one has only to view vids of street life in the 50`s and 60`s to note that it seems on average members of the general population have become more...err...rotund, and that it also seems our vehicles require to be mobile entertainment centres, suitable for dog transport as well as all the stuff we might have to take to the tip and much else ..Hmm..?
My First Porsche was a 69 912, followed by a 77, then 82 911`s all of which were considerably smaller than my current 991.... Thus from all the above, hardly surprising...?

Seems that housebuilders well into the 90`s and beyond still thought cars were of 50`s dimensions to the extent that in many housing estates many family cars could perhaps fit in, provided acess or egress via their doors was not required...?

That our road systems and their width were designed for horses all the way through to the first motorways the size of which even with later widening seem unable to keep up with the size weight and sheer volume of traffic.... Best get used to it...?

I also note that since a mix of Covid lockdowns, increase in dog ownership, and the introduction of satnav, many of the once quiet country roads have become rat runs, ancient bridges on them crumbling causing many to be closed for bridge reinforcement measures, also almost blocked with dog walkers inconsiderate parking....just need to relax and put it all down to evolutionary forces...?

It's fair, I did say w.r.t. the roads down in Dartmouth. It's also true of pretty much all classes of car, a mini is......well not really mini is it.

You could also say that tyres went through the same bloating issue. I remember when 185/70/15 on my Dolomite Sprint was a fat one. Now the two new tyres for a Mercedes E Estate (285/30/19) are fat ones.

It is also a reflection on Dartmouth and southern Devon! Everything got fat except the roads (the potholes have kept pace) and so a fast car is a small one. Watching the tourists in the strange rovers panic as they come down the road to Dartmouth is hilarious unless you are stuck behind them. Their constant slapping of the brakes at each narrow point must make them sea sick with the air suspension in floaty-boaty mode!

Parking down here is a right pain, without the kind assistance of Richard it would be a nightmare. I looked at buying a garage (60k+) and the first four I saw were to small (short) to fit an Aero in! An aero is not a large footprint. Even if you can find a garage in town it is barely the size of an original mini!

Mind you if the car had a voice it might just point out that I have done the same and put on a few pounds.

That's the joy of the little MGB - can squeeze through the smallest of gaps ( at 152cm it's only about 10cm wider than an original mini). Parking is a dream too. My front drive is only about 4.3m long, so fits on there nicely too (and I reckon I have just enough room to squeeze a motorbike sideways behind the MG and Morgan, much to SWMBOs annoyance).

The Morgan is smaller still - same width as a classic mini and at 366cm long, about 20cm shorter than the MGB.

I'm not the smallest person out there, so getting in and out can be a bit 'origami' - I parked up outside a prostate exam place last year, and got a round of applause when I folded myself back into the drivers seat.....

Have a 996 TT bought during 2020 Covid lockdown. Does 3k miles pa. Annual service including MOT at my local garage £420. Insurance £410.