Giantviper

Episode 2 of Top Gear USA this season has Tanner Fousts driving a 944.

It was sad to see the car get beat up but they did give us some respect saying it was the car that held up the best after 30 years and it ran circles around the 12 cylinder Jag and Alfa spider.

Stout 944

I did like how they rigged the cones course against the 944 acknowledging that with its handling that it wouldn't be contested in a slalom.

951Dreams

And that is 944 all summed up in one sentence.

bonus12

Just saw this. the driver also mentioned that it had great handling even on the unstable terrain (they were driving on gravel).

951Dreams

Noah can tell you all about 944's and 924's on gravel. And snow.. lots of snow.... and mud. That's just the regular Canadian roads. Then he rallies!! LOL

william_b_noble

that car was my car, I bought it new in 1985 from Vasek Polak Porsche for $21,500, drove it well over 250K miles and sold it to the top gear guy for $2500 because nobody would buy it - I had put new suspension parts into it which is why it performed well on their idiotic tests - of course it ran well, it had been maintained by an original owner who knew what he was doing - it was fully documented with every receipt from the original purchase documentation, etc (about 4 inches of documentation). Pretty sad to intentionally destroy stuff without at least doing some performance runs or something. I actually preferred the 944, in the condition it was when sold, to a new 991 I had bought (I sold the 991 with about 2500 miles to a dealer). The jag and the alfa would have had a chance if they had been cared for.

ramius665

Wow... I don't know how many times I silently willed someone to buy you car. Nice to know it went off into Hollywood glory but sad to see they made sure it wasn't going to get a sequel.

mrgreenjeans

only one more good reason to hate this show and it's dufus boy dialogue

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jhowell371

They lost me a long time ago when they tore up a nice VW Rabbit pickup just being horse's asses. My wife had a diesel powered one and we loved it. A/C made the little cab like a meat locker. Hauled all kinds of stuff with it too. She got 3 times the mileage of my Chevy pickup It looked really cute parked next to my M58 Deuce and a Half, like a pickup truck that been washed in hot water and shrank

944crazy

That fat **** Clarkson taking that beautiful manual 928 GT through fields and over boulders in the Patagonia special made me rage. Those rare cars go for twice the price of my 951 or more here in Australia...he could have at least taken a ratty early auto 928.

mazdaverx7

I appreciate the fact that the Top Gear hosts enjoy cars and that they make a show dedicated to cars. What I don't appreciate is that they always seem to destroy rare enthusiast cars. It sickens me how cavalier they can be about destroying a collectible car. The American version of Top Gear makes me sick. Those guys are just idiots with no concept of what it means to be an automotive enthusiast. They are children playing a sick game with cars. If they ever had an appreciation for automobiles, it was lost log ago in a paycheck.

jhowell371

Yes that was a damn shame, it was a great looking car, same color as my S2. I was surprised how tough it was though, I cringe just going over speed bumps.