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Originally Posted by Marrk
@ strat61caster: I love you, strat. You know that. But this bullfrog-with-four-wheels ain't pretty. Also, you may have heard that placing the engine and tranny aft of the rear axle is . . . let me think, what's the word . . . insane. Yes, that's it. Insane. That's why Porsche has been trying to kill it off for the last 30 years. But technology, as usual, screwed everything up, and they found a way to compensate for all the the design flaws by using 400 on-board computers. |
You call it insane, I call it inspired. I've done the math on the rear vs. mid vs. front engine cars, making something so unstable gives it remarkable agility suited only to the best control systems (number one being top level drivers and number two being computers). You may think it isn't pretty, no argument should change your opinion, still a '67 911S is my number two dream car at the moment.
I disagree on the technology aspect, the market and people who bought Porsches screwed it up. I think the 911 should have died before they started using water cooling, the 914 and 914-6 should have killed it, the 928/924/944 should have killed it but people kept buying 911's, it would have been irresponsible for them to kill off the 911, they would have suffocated themselves. Everybody knows that if they spent as much developing the Cayman/Boxster as they did developing the 911 they would be truly staggering vehicles. And if they could have abandoned the 911 a long time ago maybe the Panamera would have gone in a different direction styling wise...
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