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amawanqa
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Sigh, anyone got 10 mill lying around for the last commercially available version of this beast?:
More  P1i Porsche pics, taken at Gauteng's flagship dealer:
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amawanqa
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Taken from The Register:
'World smartphone sales: Apple closes on RIM...
...and becomes US' leading phone maker
Apple has narrowed the gap between the iPhone and Research in Motion's BlackBerry, heating up the battle to be the world's second biggest seller of smartphones.
According to market watcher Strategy Analytics, Apple accounted for 16.4 per cent of world smartphone shipments in Q1 2010 - just 3.3 percentage points behind RIM.
Apple's Q1 tally is two points up on the 14.4 per cent share it scored for 2009 as a whole. RIM's share remained static, at 19.7 per cent. Year on year, it was effectively static too: falling a fraction of a percentage point from the 20.3 per cent share it achieved in Q1 2009.
Apple, on the other hand, saw its share jump from 10.6 per cent in the same timeframe, SA's numbers show.
Neither is yet able to challenge the mighty Nokia, which recorded a Q1 2010 share of 40 per cent, according to SA, up from 38.2 per cent in Q1 2009 and 38.8 per cent for 2009 as a whole.
The gains made by Apple and Nokia came at the expense of the 'others' category, which saw its share fall from 30.9 per cent in Q1 2009 to 23.8 per cent in Q1 2010.
Apple shifted 8.8m iPhones during the quarter. That now makes it the US' biggest phone manufacturer, Motorola having just announced that it sold 8.5m handsets - of all kinds - during the three-month period. As SA's numbers show, Apple is still behind RIM, but the BlackBerry maker is Canadian, don't forget.
During Q1, overall smartphone shipments hit 53.7m units worldwide, up almost 50 per cent on Q1 2009's total, 35.9m.'
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Dups!
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Err... 10 million?
As much as I love Porsche I'd get a Rolls-royce Ghost and a Range Rover and still have some spare cash out of that 10 million. That is a lot of moola there!
That Porsche Panamera is fugly, I felt that way the first time I saw it and it gets uglier every time I see it.
I saw the BMW's competition to the Mercedes CLS on Ignition yesterday and I love it, it looks the part and as usual it will drive like a Bimmer.
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amawanqa
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Ya Dups, 'strue, no BS according to the one salesman there. Apparently it was bought by a high-profile BEE businessman as an investment, with the intention to resell it later (i.e. now) as it is the last one of its kind up for sale anywhere. There were only 1270 ever produced between 2005 and 2006:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_Carrera_GT
Carbon fibre everywhere. Even carbon ceramic brake discs etc. Still not driven yet.
Still, when the average performance Porsche in there is around the 1.2 mill mark (911 Cabriolet is just over 2 mill, etc), that kinda makes it hard to swallow. Maybe if you're around that flagship store in Witkoppen sometime, you could perhaps haggle a better price for it... 
Eish, I'd have about 8 of the most exotic superbikes out there for about a mill in total, an X6M, Bentley Continental GT (or Aston Martin DB9), a mansion of note and enough to live pretty comfortably with the rest..
Er.. check this out; heresy, I tell ye:
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amawanqa
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More random P1i pics:
Plettenberg Bay:
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Dups!
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I can see the sales person take one look at my old X5 and ask can you even afford to buy this Porsche at R2 million?
Let me win a R91 million like that lucky Cape Town couple in the Powerball then I will arrogantly walk in there and say, 'I'll give you R12.5 million for the Carrera GT and keep the R500 000 as your gratuity'
And what the hell did someone do to that Bentley? Pink?!!! That is atrocious!
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amawanqa
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Taken from GSMArena today:
'RIM enters Top 5, replaces Motorola as the market recovers
Smartphones, smartphones, smartphones - its what the people around the world want. Cant argue with numbers - smartphone shipments are on a rise and the market in general is bouncing back from the 2009 low caused by the poor economy.
In the first quarter of 2010, a total of 294.9 million units were shipped - a 21.7% increase over the 242.4 million units of the previous years initial quarter. Analysts remind us that this impressive growth is compared to an overall poor year, so a more realistic market growth for 2010 is 11%.
Motorola reported less bleak Q1 financial results compared to last year, but they lost the top US phone manufacturer to Apple, and they fallen behind on the worldwide scene as well - Motorola fell out of the Top 5 and RIM took their place, overtaking Sony Ericsson for the fourth spot.
RIM is gearing up to take an even bigger piece of the market share pie - the newly announced BlackBerry OS 6 is likely to gain more traction with the general crowd than the previous versions and there are new devices to help drive adoption even further.
Aside from smartphones, touchscreens were another sought-after feature, with touch-operated feature phones performing strongly in Europe. In North America, Android is gaining speed and quick messaging devices remained popular.
In Asia and the Pacific (sans Japan) low-cost smartphones were hot-sellers. In Latin America, both feature phones and smartphones recovered from the dip they took last year and social networking features are growing in popularity.'
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amawanqa
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Hey Dups n' Gucci;
Still referring to the insanely expensive (and super-rare) Carrera GT, this is why Russian billionaires must never bid to purchase Porsche and try to influence with typical Russian design philosophy, LOL:
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Tsepz_GP
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Man that Carrera GT is GORGEOUS! 
Forget buying it,we'll steal it,no way the cops could catch us in their lil Ford Focus's and vans  the road between Bloem and Colesburg is perfect for this,LONG straights most of the way. Wonder how much the installments are on it? It must be like buying a new Ford Fiesta each month
I dig the Panamera funny enough. Something about it i find attractive,not just the performance, BUT given the choice id take a BMW 760Li over a Panamera any day, or just take a Cayenne Turbo-S with GTS bodykit,black, the black rims and that bit of gold detailing they do
Speaking of supercars,i saw 3different Aston Martins (Vantage, DB9,and DB9 Volante) in different areas, all 3 in white, today, weird 
LMAO Wanqs eish thankgoodness! Although i must say,the Russians realy did a great job with the TVR brand, they used to be such boring looking cars.
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amawanqa
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Motorola Droid 2 on the way:
http://www.gsmarena.com/motor[....]a_and_720p_video-news-1626.php
@ Tsepz:
LOL, yeah, but Smolensky's meddling hasn't done wonders for the TVR brand's appeal per se. There's been more drama with the company since his take-over than there is in most Australian soap operas, LOL.
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amawanqa
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P1i pic taken while in SA: Even the milk tarts in the Spar have a football 'touch' to them at the moment...:
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Tsepz_GP
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Just when the dust is settling due to the aftermath of Terra'blanche's murder, just a few hours ago Teazers boss Lolly Jackson was shot dead 15TIMES! earlier this evening in Kempton Park:
http://bit.ly/blorJO dam,who did he piss off this time?
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amawanqa
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Eish Tsepz; that's sickening. On top of that, 15 shots.. that's almost half an AK47's magazine's total rounds or a very extended pistol magazine's total rounds being emptied into him. What's this world coming to?
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amawanqa
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BlackBerry Slider 9800 on the way:
http://www.gsmarena.com/black[....]_blackberry_os_6-news-1631.php
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amawanqa
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LMAO, check this Ukrainian 'Pimp My Ride' creation, in the esato photo gallery and taken with a  W800i. What's that scoop/taxi-looking thingy above the windscreen? Those yellow mudflaps, and check out the angle of the scoops on the valance. And what's with the 'Dragon Style'? Ooh, that just does it for me, LOL.:
http://www.esato.com/phonephotos/viewphotos.php?pid=26937
[ This Message was edited by: amawanqa on 2010-05-05 13:36 ] He who laughs last... thinks slowest.
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