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Funny Thursday: Porsche GT-3 RS

In September 2021 a very very good friend got delivery of his long dreamed of Porsche GT-3 RS, basically a street-legal race car.  My friend's wife thinks he was an idiot for buying this quarter-million dollar car and that he will come to a bad end.  Now my friend is used to powerful cars and as a young man even made it all the way (for three races) to the Formula Atlantic level which is something.  He is a very good and generally a very safe driver.

Now, the story.  I've never been in his Porsche and have little appetite for sitting in a car that has hard carbon fiber seats with five points attachment seat belts.  As a joke with a common friend, we ran his car through something called carfax, we had seen this thing being used by car buyers to ascertain if their car had been in an accident, and we used this software to scan for his GT3, oh boy were we surprised, since September he's had 7 small accidents with the car -- Yep, small things still on that car we are talking thousands of dollars each time, plus it takes forever to get parts.

So last night all three of us were having drinks, the first time in months we were all together.  It was raining (what kind of February is this any way this is Montreal), and so we had drinks and started talking about his Porsche, and asking him how he liked it.  He was kind of sheepish but admitted that he sold it a few weeks ago

Porshe owner: "its an insane car, that is made for the reflex of a young man, and I am not that".  
Friend:  what too many accidents for you, we ran it through this software that showed you had seven accidents

Porsche owner:  Look you think of pressing the gas pedal and the thing takes off with insane torque.  It's too much of a car for my old body.  I drove it in total less than twenty times and almost every time I was afraid I was going to lose control.

This is a guy who has been driving a Mercedes AMG C-63 which is not exactly underpowered.  He then said, virtually all his friends who own supercars have accidents almost every time they take them out of the garage since they react so strongly to any use of power.

He told us that his insurance deductible was $40,000 and the reason was that even for him no other insurance was available.  $40,000 is a large deductible and this is the best part out of his seven accidents, one was large enough that the insurance company paid some cash. 

The funniest thing, he paid $250,000 for a toy he really didn't enjoy.  Next summer we are all going skydiving it should be fun...

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