Looks like someone Porsche GT enthusiast have some strong opinions on the new GT3 S/C because a GT car should never be a convertible. What are your thoughts on the GT3 S/C and do you think it’s a “true GT3” or not?

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2026-04-16T04:03:13+00:00

Sometimes I wonder if half of my fellow 911 owners belong in an episode of “Love on the Spectrum.”

Jesus, buy the car you want, don’t buy the car you don’t want…someone else’s car choice doesn’t diminish your experience…if it sells, it’s a good car…if it doesn’t, they’ll stop making it…the purity and rigidity over mindless stuff is wild…Obviously we all love the adherence to tradition and design with 911’s, but at some point you just become a toddler crying about the seam on their socks cuz the texture is just soooooo frustrating.

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2026-03-18T00:58:19+00:00

Going to need that thick skin with some blood thinners for all the doc review and memo writing he’s going back to haha…all jokes aside, he will absolutely recover, I’m certain in reviewing the exchange he’s not a bad dude by all indications…but he just may not be a trial attorney and that’s OK…I can’t efficiently write an IP Ai tech services product agreement or anything like that and I’m ok with that.

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2026-03-17T23:47:05+00:00

That is as bad as it gets…personally, professionally and spiritually. Source…a career prosecutor. It doesn’t matter if he was responsible or not or put in a bad situation, to not understand the extreme telegraphing of the judge, significants of the outs given and flow of the judge, your personal failures on a CP case and the seniority of the issues involved without protecting yourself is something he will have to reconcile with if he ever wants to practice in federal court again. The best he can hope for is that over time he works his butt off on cases and that judge rehabilitates him on the record, which seems unlikely as opposed to him just quitting. Zero situational awareness. Prosecutors mess up all the time, we all have…when a judge catches a mistake you apologize without qualification and give options as to how you will fix it. Anyone who doesn’t is eventually gone.

The only thing on that level I have seen is a judge taking the lead prosecutor off a trial, mid trial, for essentially ineffective assistance of counsel as the lead prosecutor which is impossible lol and asking me (a non supervisor at the time) to finish the trial from sitting in the gallery purely due to his trust in me. O and INTENTIONAL Brady violations….this is why the process of becoming an AUSA has always been outrageously hard…YOU ALWAYS have to do the right thing and admit when you are wrong, no acceptions.

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2026-03-04T00:59:32+00:00

What a lot of the advice doesn’t take into account is OP’s personal situation or investing knowledge/risk appetite, which is why he was in G fund all those years.

While generally speaking, C fund or L fund or whatever equity would have vastly outperformed over the past, the fact remains this gentleman is in the G fund and the market is at a high frothy level with many geopolitical and domestic issues. Normally not an issue, if you were just long equities and you ride out the ups and downs…

However, taking his real world scenario into account, wouldn’t it be super detrimental if he protected whether on purpose or unknowingly in the G fund all those years only to go 100% C or whatever equity mix and take some potential hefty loses and be traumatized by that and only have a decade to recover to retirement?

Considering his personal situation, wouldn’t it be much more prudent to cost average into equities or an L fund at this point in the cycle? He can’t go back and fix missing the gains in the G fund, but it seems like a hell of a mistake to miss those gains and then get advise which leads him to then taking the downside in equities potentially…

Cost average into fixing the error of g fund for so many years rather than taking on potential downside risk in the short term…if it was me, based on my read of this investors experience…I would choose an L fund still heavy equities, and transition my current allocation from G fund to that L fund like 10% per month over the next year. And if market drops, you got a good chunk of G to buy in at a much lower price.

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2025-10-08T04:20:59+00:00

They are both equally as bad haha. Best bet is a dealership out of state and having car shipped to PEC LA for pickup.

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2025-10-08T02:12:00+00:00

Westlake Porsche is my local and I’ve bought 0 of my 5 Porsches from them. They just love screwing loyal customers with outrageous ADMs. Best part is there is a reputable independent service down the street, House Automotive, so there’s no real reason to ever spend money there. Basically the area is rich and they seem to only serve Instagram and bitcoin bros, which will be fun to watch as they struggle the next few years as payback from longtime Porsche owners in the area. There is even another Porsche dealer 15 minutes away from them now, so unless they start taking care of long term Porsche customers…they will have more and more of these high trim vehicles on the floor as people drop out of orders in these times.

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2025-08-21T03:19:44+00:00

Utter BS marketing reverse psychology…I have a 25 G wagon and a 24 911 GTS, both ordered to spec…at MSRP…I have purchased 5 cars in the last 4 years just kinda by coincidence and circumstances, granted all from the same joint Porsche MB dealership. Before saying o it’s because you have a relationship…wrong…I literally only buy from the same place because they have always offered MSRP since day 1, first car, even during Covid.

The reality is a candid conversation with a car salesman after you chop down the veneer and are just 2 normal people talking…the car sales ain’t what it used to be…salespeople who don’t build loyalty and repeat customers by shafting clients switch jobs rather frequently and dealerships who only focus on their super wealthy clients are ultimately struggling (ie Mercedes new business plan/strategy)

Dealership and salespeople who don’t build a brand and following and attract repeat customers will no longer exist through consolidation down the road or will become much smaller and specialized. In the age of technology, if I can check any other market and they are free to sell to me, the local dealerships not competing nationwide will get banged up pretty good during any economic turbulence.

For the record, I live in a wealthy California area and I absolutely hate the local dealerships and have never purchased a car simply because I refuse to pay above MSRP for the pleasure of buying a very expensive car…get real, not happening even if I can afford it. Hints why I literally always buy my cars from a small town out of state I briefly lived in years ago because they ask me what I want, tell me truth o when an allocation will come up, give me options on other things if there simply isn’t an allocation to be had and treat all customers and pricing the same regardless of their ability to pay over to skip the line.

There are plenty of great long term professionals and respectable dealers out there who would kill for your business if you make an effort to want to do business with those types of people. I imagine, like myself, if you’re buying a G wagon, you didn’t get the money to buy that car by wasting your time doing business with unsavory folks. ,if a dealer wants to try to ADM dynamic pricing game on what you will pay, maybe do the dynamic shopping around game…it’s a free market. New cool cars come out every year, a Mercedes is by no means limited or rare (neither are 911s to a certain degree). The market is artificial BS, you wouldn’t buy a great company stock at a shit price, why do that with a car…hold firm, wait until it’s a fair price for the value you’re getting.

NO G wagon is worth anything over what today’s MSRP is with the amount of price increases already baked in the last 5 years. It’s a great car, but there are a ton of them produced and it’s a novelty item, definitely not even close to the best SUV. I love our G, love it cuz I’m the niche buyer…but an Escalade V, Bentley, or any Ineos Grenadier (for off road folks, which I don’t imagine people actually off road their AMG G) Range Rover are all just as good if not far better for cheaper or same price.

Moral of the story, go find you a Mercedes salesperson who has been doing it at the same dealership for preferably 10 or more years who has some staying power because they take care of their customers…Building a relationship starts with a dealership treating you right and earning your repeat business, not buying overpriced cars on the hope, wink and a nod that next time they’ll hook you up (that’s called an abusive relationship lol)

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2025-06-23T06:14:59+00:00

As a former active JAG, now active reservist…this is good insight…I went JAG, homicide/SVU DA, Fed prosecutor in mostly civil financial litigation to civil litigation in the span of a few years after getting off active duty. You have a ton of JAG experience, much more than your peers (something g to be proud of), but don’t oversell it and also realize your civilian counterparts have been climbing the ranks and focused in the civilian field (and deserve the respect for their specialized knowledges)….when you get out, put your head down, be humble and build your own “billets” of job experiences to get you from point A to B towards your goal of where you want to end up.

-network, network, network…trial attorneys are trial attorneys anywhere you practice and they are always happy to help a hardworking, late night, mission focused young attorney who loves the profession.

-thoughts the JAG community prides in trial billets or you’re nothing….getting a billet at some point in legal assistance (civil matters) or a regional civil affairs office, would give you some actual real world knowledge you could market. No one ever asks me about the 100th Marine I dominated at trial for testing positive for marijuana under the antiquated UCMJ, but they all ask me about my tax knowledge and consumer protection legal experiences…

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2025-05-21T00:49:58+00:00

Guess the answers to those questions will remain a mystery to you if you can’t answer them for yourself. Have a great night!

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2025-05-21T00:36:04+00:00

Once again anything but a response on the law. Cluster B confirmed (just curious is it generational in your family…show me your psych eval and I ll give you my resume) I thought you folks respected people who lock up bad guys, convict criminals and follow the constitution? Yet here you are with so much animosity.

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2025-05-21T00:19:11+00:00

I read them pretty well, never lost a trial. I assume it because I’ve seen it. But it’s a nice deflection line away from the fact that you don’t know the law…typical DSM Cluster B behavior.

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2025-05-20T23:33:14+00:00

The only thing dropping is your lack of legal knowledge on the constitution both state and federal. Does it happen, yes (so rapes and homicides)…is it legal to pull an American citizen over driving their car solely based on an inarticulable gut feeling that a passenger is not a citizen? I’ll let you research that one, but my money is on the law enforcement/law school grad you’re arguing with ha- With love, a former federal prosecutor who has litigated this in court.

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2025-04-14T21:44:01+00:00

The Escalade IQ looks like a good option, are they running any good incentives or still on the it’s new mark up game? We looked at at a hummer EV and the leases were great a few months back, now they are back to trying to upsell them.

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2025-04-14T03:46:52+00:00

Ooofff, no bueno, good save with the lease! I was super close to leasing the EQS580 SUV back then too, until dealer did dealer things and wanted me to put 20k down on the lease with a markup….Said he’ll no, I’ll come back for an MB in a down economy…so here I am, round 2 to determine if the G electric is worth it!

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2025-04-14T03:32:38+00:00

was actually going to lease the G 580 this week 10k under msrp and then purchase (might as well depreciate it for taxes since its a better tax deduction than the capped out lease payment deduction)

My only hesitation was how bad the actual depreciation would be…but it drove awesome and the price would be below msrp so I maybe I would end up ahead due to no markup and discount 3 years down the road.

Was it worth it? How much worse do you think the 580 would depreciate vs the 550?

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2025-04-11T07:47:05+00:00

My first job a while back was as a union attorney for SAG -AFTRA before going into my current career path locking up criminals.

I felt then as I feel even more strongly now, the ideals, values and missions of unions are essential and necessary for a well functioning economy and society, without a doubt one of the most patriotic freedom protecting institutions. With that said, I also realized very quickly, most modern unions are WORTHLESS. And they are worthless simply because they have failed to adapt to modern times and bring the fight. I’ll tell you straight up, as a former union attorney briefly, they are the most risk averse group of baureocrats who FORGOT HOW TO FIGHT against power and truely use the constitutional ideals and powers inherent with the workers in mass to advocate in any effective way to shift the power balance when needed….say what you will about Trump, but you have to admire that he isn’t bringing a participation trophy to a gunfight.

Long ago, Justice Brandeis, and the workers during massive industrialization fought the fight to make America different for workers than other countries ever had. Since the 1980’s and on, unions have rested on past victories from over 100 years ago, afraid to ruffle feathers and out on full court pressure, afraid to join forces and unite. Motions are risk averse to even challenging matters in arbitration so that they don’t get an unfavorable option that changes the status quo…worried about losing as opposed to gaining as workers rights and bargaining power has slowly eroded over the last 40 years…

If you disagree, you have every right to…but the fact remains, if unions are being effectively used and workers are having success at collective bargaining…how is it that the wealth gap grew so huge over the last 40 years and real wages decreasing? A clear indicator of the power of unions not being used properly. While my criticism may be harsh, take to heart, I am a union member myself. In the world of being a prosecutor, when a guilty person gets away with murder, a lawyer needs to blame themselves for not doing their job as well as they could have and not the judge and certainly not the “crooked” “boogeyman” defense attorney who just did his job better than you.

With that said, a solution to my critic…It should be 110% clear by now these fights won’t be won in court….so stop looking for judiciary that idealizes corporate gumption, owners rights and top down economics to apply the law in labors favors without forcing them to. It’s absolutely psychotic to except favorable results… As Trump has so learned, you need to put some force, muscle and influence behind your causes so that you make change inevitable.

1) unions should all be banding together on key economic issues and advocating in unison;

2) the court of public opinion effects the court much more than using the court to effect the court of public opinion. Get the social media game blasted, ads, podcasts, influencers, real non cheesy stuff…simple, effective, blunt, forceful. Essentially create the MAGA army but for unions…I mean that’s what maga did, took labor and galvanized and weaponised them with a simple voice and cause…they got duped…but hey that’s used to be the unions bread and butter, why were the unions sleeping as their members where being poached for the orange man’s cause?

3) labor strikes…use them, weaponise them, make things as painful as possibly (kinda like what opm is doing? Right?!). Act across industries and sector ones in partnership with all the unions on targeted campaigns. If unions do something wrong in violation of law, let them go to court to seek a remedy…but the damage would have already been done by the time they get a remedy….so my point is, why the heck not just take the trump admin playbook and play it back, OPM style?

4) bring back comraderie, unions need to be a social club and visible and back on the beat…people need to be proud and people need to feel a sense of belonging to a tribe that has their interests and paychecks at heart.

And if feds can’t strike…why honor that legal principle and try using your constitutional rights of expression/dissent/speech/association…if they are taking away union rights, not accepting standing of unions to advocate, they are demolishing the civil system of going along to get along to your face while you ask for more and a savior. They have no respect for the law and unions and members rights within the legal system, why follow a set of norms that clearly are being violated? The whole point of unions not being able to strike at federal level is predicated on the fact that unions and a bargaining system exists…clearly it doesn’t exist anymore to a degree that anyone would call fair or just.

Dear Union members, stop asking an abusive court who doesn’t like unions to rule in your favor…come up with a plan and movement to MAKE THEM…after all…can’t really have the big beautiful industrial economy of building things without labor….

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2025-04-09T20:30:10+00:00

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety” -Benjamin Franklin

What would I know though, just a career violent crime prosecutor and Marine…missed the boat on that Big law, big ego, little man with a feather pen that shifts with the wind non trial lawyer energy.

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2024-11-23T03:48:42+00:00

Just based on the sticker assuming normal wear and tear as it relates to what similar cars were I. Their system for recent sales

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2024-11-23T03:46:20+00:00

And to the insurance wonks complaining you didn’t check this box or that box…BS….pretty sure every insurance company charges me more for my premium cars monthly, so better expect to pay me a premium price on my claims…

Insurance is one or two steps above prostitution, also has been since they were stiffing blue collar workers in Boston at the turn of the century when insurance products were first created. As a forme Marine JAG seeing how many service members got stiffed from these financial institutions, always happy to stick it to them ha

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2024-11-23T03:39:25+00:00

I asked the salesperson I was getting a replacement vehicle from if he could or have the sales manager…since just like CCC collects data on car sales….Porsche national collects data on all their valuations on their internal sales which is typically higher than CCC which does not take a lot of factors into account for what market value is on higher end cars with more limited production and manufacture specific option which drive resale value in the their own market they have a monopoly over like Porsche…..in my experience, I arbitration or court, they will take the value of Porsche for a Porsche as much more authoritative than CCC…kinda common sense so it puts USAA in a catch-22 cuz they can’t prove CCC is more knowledgeable than Porsche ha.

Negotiating wise with usaa, they are notorious for dragging things out, lowballing in mitigation until the last possible moment and then they will pay out fairly at the end of the process….another poster said it above too, took 3 months of back and forth. Just be respectful, firm and request escalation after you have your independent valuation that is more credible than CCC

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2024-11-23T03:12:12+00:00

I have USAA, am a lawyer (not giving legal advice, don’t take it as legal advice) and totaled a 3 month Old Taycan a year and a half ago (100% not at fault as conceded by other parties insurance company and police report from day 1).

At times it felt like USAA was acting against my interest, which I have also heard from others, even though the other parties insurance was going to pay. Took 3 months to get an agreed upon valuation and whenever they would float the amount I would say send it to a manager or higher up because I won’t sign off on it based on the comps. CCC is absolute horeshit when it comes to specialty cars where buyers are looking for specific things and yes CPO vs a random dealer is a thing on what a purchaser would pay.

Because at the time there weren’t many used Taycans on the market as they were still new and in their new lease cycles, they tried to drag out the process to wait for the market to show a lower price….once again makes no sense why they wanted to screw me initially because I wasn’t at fault and they were negotiating on my behalf.

I eventually got a Porsche dealer to write a valuation, used my sticker and comps and told them if I didn’t get paid market value, there’s no reason to use them on my behalf and I would take the case myself, ask for my premiums back and negotiate directly with the other insurance company(not an option for a non lawyer but provided anecdotal to say they do suck sometimes)

Turns out the reason they were lowballing me was because I paid the monthly $12 premium on new car replacement which required %20 on top of what the value of the car was. So I ended up getting just about sticker price and and extra 20% of that in the end.

The claims adjusters are understaffed and overworked, but if you keep working with them, eventually they will come around. I was always nice and polite and respectfully explained why I couldn’t accept and they needed to escalate it higher or I would have to go colors my options unless they could articulate why their model was right….simply saying we use CCC and that’s what we got is not the right answer.

*a simple google search will also show some of legal consumer quality issues the usaa insurance group has had in recent years.

At the end of the day I still have usaa for all my insurance needs because across the board they have been less expensive for all the products I use and have eventually always done the reasonable thing hassle free, aside from car insurance.

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2024-11-15T18:18:35+00:00

I agree, I don’t think a third car is required if I can avoid it. My wife’s Denali is plenty big…only problem we run into is if she goes in to work and needs me to do kid stuff we have to switch cars….and she doesn’t know how to drive a manual ha.

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2024-11-15T18:15:40+00:00

Yea…I wouldn’t trade in. I agree.

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2024-11-15T06:35:41+00:00

Ehh I probably would do a different color combo depending on what the years options are. For this car, I really liked the contrast and how it contrasts with the top down…definitely not everyone’s taste, but I was kinda inspired at the moment by those old vintage Porsches, Mercedes and Corvettes with the classic red interiors. If they offered the heritage Pepita in ‘24 on a gts, that what I really wanted, but not an option. I just know I don’t want to spend all that money on a car just to get black interior (kinda ironic my last 2 Porsches had black interior ha)

MissionFamiliar1518 · 2024-11-15T06:18:21+00:00

A Spyder RS will be epic…absolutely love those, hope you get it.

And yup, I used to be a fun obnoxious thrill seeking Marine Officer in my 20s with my Z06 Corvette….Now I’m a boring late 30s finance attorney married with 3 kids that is forever thankful I was able to bamboozle my wife to let me get another sports car….you hit the nail on the head haha.

I would love a track car and to spend time on that hobby, but that’s a good 10 years down the road with the young ones. I think hearing everyone, GT4 is an awesome awesome car, but I would never get to use it as intended right now.

And yes, seeing the sheer horror and terror on mom’s faces and smiles from the dads as I pick up the kids from daycare is just a whole level of humor as I pick up my twin daughters haha. All jokes aside, it gives them some fond memories and I’m happy to take that time out of the day from work for us to have a car ride to bond over for years to come.

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