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Awake after dark
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: South Morang, VIC
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There's a unique new way for Porsche owners, male and female, to give their car its own special identity. Where the model type normally goes, you can now opt to have the wording of your choice in the same style of lettering. Normally, where the model names now go, such as Cayenne, Turbo, Carrera, Cayman or Boxer, the name of any owner, his girlfriend or boyfriend, dog, company or anything at all can be put on the car: from Bruce to Michelle, from David to Roxanne to Jade and so on... What's more, creative thinking can lead to all sorts of amusing phrases, with endless possibilities. How about: 'My Seventh' or 'Thanks Daddy'? 'Not Leased' and 'Follow Me' are just a couple more examples. With its own unique wording, a Porsche becomes just a little more exclusive, and that's what this unique new service is all about. The lettering can also be ordered in different colors - black, silver, and even gold - at www.nameyourporsche.com, where you'll also find a range of examples and full information about quality, price, and delivery all over the world.
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Lost Cause
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Melbourne
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Just taking personalised plates to a whole new level, i think its a schmick idea if done properly, but has the potential to be abused by morons using lame or inappropriate badges, but im never gunna own a porsche so im just dreamin on
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Merry Xmas To All
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Melton South, Moderator: ORSM Club
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Well, it's novel, but if I had the money for a Porsche? I'd buy something else....
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Toowoomba
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and i'd have a badge on it saying Fords Are Better
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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"Mid-life crisis" or "pen!s substitute" would be fitting for many Porsche owning posers
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Horses for courses. Oh and when I have the money for a Porsche I WILL buy one....(assuming that I do not have enough for a Lambo or Ferrari) |
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DJR Fan
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Sydney
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Guys, until you've driven a Porsche GT3 round a racetrack you can't fully appreciate Porsche. Sure, some ******* drive them, but they are an amazing car to drive.
Also, on that website, I want to see what the badge will look like. It doesn’t give you a preview :( (not that im buying one)
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Banned
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Carrum Downs
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Would have to have "Stolen" or something simlilar.. You can kinda do this here with letters from Autobarn, theres a few different fonts to choose from..
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Awake after dark
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: South Morang, VIC
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Call me whatever you will, but if I had the money to buy a Porsche, I'd buy the following instead:
1973 Bathurst Spec GTR XU1 as a weekender E49 Charger as a cruiser Nissan R34 Skyline GTR as a daily BF F6 Tornado as a work hack and probably a Statie or LTD to cart the family around in
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GT4.
Join Date: Dec 2004
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I cant beleive poeple would rice up a porche with "I am from Springvale" Customised badging.... The gods must be crazy!
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Victoria - where being slow & incompetent is considered being "safe"
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A guy that I see at sprint meetings absolutely pounds his 10 year old Porsche 911 all day lap after lap, event after event. It is only a stock Carrera 2, not a trick RS or RS CS. The amount of abuse that thing can take has impressed me greatly I have never seen another stock car do the same lap times (1:35-1:38 secs at Winton) and run so hard so continuously. He has sold it now for almost what he bought it for.
Sometimes certain manufacturer’s reputations are deserved (just co-incidence that they fare well in long distance races?).
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Snoopping
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: In front of the 'puter
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There is no god.
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DJR TM#54
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: on my p.c now with internet! ok i'll still use works internet too.
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Must be starting to run out of idears for new toy to put on your car.
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Merry Xmas To All
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Absolutely....as I said horses for courses.
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Virtuous Bogan (TM)
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How anyone can anything bad to say about a Porsche is beyond me...look outside that sqaure fellas!
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Virtuous Bogan (TM)
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^^Tis a good point, but if you have the cash then why the heck not.
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Starter Motor
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Brisbane
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Back on topic, I'd have "Lotto" on the bootlid ... the only way I'll ever own one :(
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FORMERLY TX3DUDE
Join Date: Jan 2005
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i went with a friend in a porsche turbo from wollongong to wakefield park to do a track day. he did a 1:09 and drove the thing home. other cars on the day had slicks and you couldnt drive them on the street (too stiff) as for ferrari's and lambos ... until recently they made what i liken to kit cars. the build quality on a porsche was/is far far superior
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Brisbane, QLD
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I'd love an older porsche, like an early 80's 911, I personally think ******* drive the newer ones...
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The car itself is a revered marque and current models like the Boxster, Cayman, 911 and Carrera GT build on Porsche's previous excellent reputation
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If I had $350,000 to spend on a car, a Porsche would be about 4th on the list, however, if I couldn't spend over $200k, I don't reckon you'd get much better than a 2 year old 911 Turbo. I had the fortune to drive a boss of mine's around a couple of times, and just pottering around they're easier to drive and comfier than an Accord. For an 'everyday' supercar, they're pretty damn awesome. On the 'Porsche ****er' thing that people seem to propagate, you're gonna get ******* in every sort of car. It's just that you get rich ******* in porsches etc, and that seems to irk people
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I Bleed Orange!
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: sydney
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how about "wayne kerr"
what happens when you badge the car with you name, then you want to sell it?
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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My brother-in-law just bought a brand spankers GT2 or 3 (sorry dont know that much about them but it was the more expensive of the two) which he kindly let me drive.
Far from being a rich wan#$ he started as a lowly tradie apprentice, worked his *** off and know owns his own tradie company so its not real good to stereotype (by the way he also owns an original Phase 3 GTHO so he is partial to a good aussie car too). Anyway this thing was a blast. First thing I noticed was the absolute stripper of an interior, basically you sit on the floor in leather recaro's which bend around your entire body with a fire extinguisher - thats it, besides lots of carbon fibre everywhere. Step outside and the bodykit is pretty dam cool especially the big fat wide rear end. Fire it up and the engine noise is pretty unreal. Pulling away the acceleration was the most brutal I have ever felt in a car and I am hard to impress given my preference to bikes. Suspension is harsh on the street (understandable it is a light weight track car) but it grips and grips and just makes you feel so confident. All in all if I had the money I would buy one. What does this have to do with badges - nothing, I just wanted to brag about driving a Porsche GT3 ;-P
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Regular Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
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I don't know why you guys think you need to spend $200,000+ for a Porsche. My dad went through his midlife crisis and got a boxster for less that a new GT. 2000 model looks exactly the same as the latest model and goes so hard. You cant really write one off as a posers car until you have driven one. The roadholding on those cars is crazy. Granted i haven't driven a hi performance car like the GT of the F6 but they are awesome cars.
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