Schedenfreude: All the Porsche GT3s are exploding

[Guest Breadvan72]

Ha!   A little news from the strange world of the ludicrously expensive and over specified modern car.  Not content with killing Z List schelebs who appear in bollocks movies about driving fast, Porsche GT3s the world over are now spontaneously combusting, to the chagrin of their "I only gone and blinged me bonus on it innit" owners.  Porsche has now told them all to stop driving the sheds. 

 

At this rate,how long before the GT3 is obtainable at shite prices? 

 

 

PS:  the typo in "Schadenfreude"  is a typo, but I have decided to stay with it. 

[tooSavvy]

... hence my earlier post about wearing my Porsche oven gloves [TG ref]

 

TS

[Bren]

Expect all GT3 drivers to be seen wearing asbestos hoods a'la Steve mc Queen in Le Mans.

[Pete-M]

I want a GT3.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Bit of T Cut and this one will be fine.

[castros_bro]

They are just copying Lamborghini

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

What is actually causing this? You would hope that after decades of designing cars they'd avoid kitcar-esque mistakes like threading rubber fuel hose through the exhaust manifold or letting the battery terminals touch the bonnet. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Whilst Paul Walker was killed in a Porsche, it was the even more ludicrously expensive Carrera GT, and his mate needed to hit a lamppost at over 100mph on an industrial estate to make it explode properly.

For Hollywood deaths involving GT3 type fiery destruction you need to look to Jackass star Ryan Dunn who carefully consumed massive amounts of alcohol before testing his GT3's flying and fireproofing qualities in a 130mph drive through some trees in Pennsylvania. Thoughtfully he took a friend along with him.

[Junkman]

What is actually causing this?

Fire.

 

You would hope that after decades of designing cars they'd avoid kitcar-esque mistakes like threading rubber fuel hose through the exhaust manifold or letting the battery terminals touch the bonnet.

You would hope that after 200 years they figured out how to operate a railway, after 150 years they can make telephones that actually work, and after 60 years finally come up with a functional computer.

IMO if something just can't be made properly working within one generation, it should be relegated to history and something useful invented instead. But alas.

[Guest Breadvan72]

You have hit it on the head.  This is the problem with cars.  They are basically fucking rubbish, but we have been farting around with them for over a hundred years now.  We need to move on.  

[Bren]

Fire. You would hope that after 200 years they figured out how to operate a railway, after 150 years they can make telephones that actually work, and after 60 years finally come up with a functional computer.IMO if something just can't be made properly working within one generation, it should be relegated to history and something useful invented instead. But alas.

I concur - the same rationale could apply to flat roofs, k series head gaskets and ka underbody protection.

[Paul Dupart]

........and Hoover washing machines

[Shep Shepherd]

Self-immolating Porsches = No great loss.

[Junkman]

You have hit it on the head.  This is the problem with cars.  They are basically fucking rubbish, but we have been farting around with them for over a hundred years now.  We need to move on.

 

They had them basically functional by about 1920. They continued to constantly improve them until they reached their pinnacle in 1986, exactly for their centennial, when all of a sudden it was collectively decided to completely fuck everything up that's fuckupable, which is ongoing ever since and has meanwhile reached a hilarious degree. One would have to do a big reset to 1986 and start developing afresh from there, but this time in the right direction, to sort things out.

 

Neither railways, telephones, nor computers have ever been as good as cars were by 1986. In fact, they have never worked properly and should be replaced.

[vulgalour]

Open Google images

Search: 1986

 

 

 

MONTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE

[inconsistant]

Because my 924 isn't a proper Porsche, the footwells just get a bit too hot for comfort.

[Bobthebeard]

Because my 924 isn't a proper Porsche, the footwells just get a bit too hot for comfort.

My 944 has been accused of not being a proper Porsche also. (By a bloke I know who runs an older Boxster.... Spent 3K on gearbox so far...Ha Ha!)

 

My footwells remain cool, but as the heater control is stuck on 'screen volcanic' my face does get very hot and red.