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Originally Posted by strat61caster
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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I'm just sad to see the 911 turning into more of a rich person's GT car. Back in the day they were small, light, pretty spartan and much less expensive. Sad to see the company catering to the Chinese / Russian oligarch market by making fantastically expensive, bigger, computer-controlled cars :\
I guess we still have the Boxster / Cayman though, which seem more sport-focused. Even those are getting stupid expensive though.
I wish I had the cash to scoop up a nice air-cooled machine before they end up well north of $50 grand. Those will be the ones to have in the long run-- modern cars don't have much character. This has come up several times for me: in 15 years, will my BRZ seem like a desirable thing? I don't know. I guess it may because it's sort of anachronistic to begin with: manual transmissions and lightweight cars are rare enough as it is, and I expect they'll only get rarer. But will it have the same level of appeal as a 15-year-old 911 does today? We'll see I guess. I kind of doubt it. More importantly, those 911s will still be around in another 15 years, and will seem even more old school.
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