Cool Stuff from Car&Driver 1986
11-02-2004, 01:25 PM
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Cool Stuff from Car&Driver 1986
I buy a lot of old magazines with Porsches featured in them. This time I got a C&D from 1986. It was their "10 Best" issue.
I got it primarily for the 930 feature article later on in the back of the magazine, but there were a LOT of great general P-Car stuff. They also did a lot of "Top" lists.
Heres what I remember from reading last night:
In their "top" lists:
Best handling car: Porsche 944
Top Speed: Porsche 944 Turbo (157mph)
Best acceleration: Porsche 928S (they mentioned the 951/930 didnt qualify for some reason - I will have to re-read)
Most expensive: Porsche 928S
Best brakes: Audi 4000 CS Q I think
Best engine: Saab 9000 Turbo
Best gauges: MR2
Best seats: Porsche 944 (so simple yet so secure for all sizes...)
In in their 10 Best secton, the 951 made the list but they said the 944NA drove better unless you wanted to blast through canyons.
Also checked out the Summary Report on tested cars. The 930 had the fastest as-tested 0-60mph at 4.6s. Next was Ferrari Testarossa at 5.0s.
I also read test drive article on the 86 Grand Am SE. They pretty much made a two page joke of the car. The ergonomics were abysmal. Llittle plastic windows where guages are, a Speedo that is in a plastic window that flatlines then ramps up. 80% of the gauge cluster is nothing but a plastic panel.
In the 930 article they bitched and moaned about the turbo lag though much of it was from a faulty 1st car. The replacement they tested zinged, but they did say back in 1979 the car was in its own world and now the rest of the world had closed the gap on turbocharging and a model revision was probably appropriate to redistance the car.
Other stuff:
Four panel pullout of 944 and 944 Turbo ad. Very nice.
Goodyear/928 ad
Full page ad for an art house with 930 as focal point
Lengthy article on Porsche race cars (962 Lowenbraus at al)
Ive got another magazine I received that pits an 88 930 against a Cessna with a Porsche engine in it on the cover, but the magazine has never been opened and still has the plastic around it. Should I say screw it?
I threw so many old mags away about a year or two before I bought my 951. I never thought Id own a Porsche so I gave up holding on to all the great articles. I wish I had not done that b/c now Im buying them all back.
Finally, enyone getting Rolex spam mail in the last three weeks? Ive gotten probably 800-1000 spams on faux Rolexes.
I got it primarily for the 930 feature article later on in the back of the magazine, but there were a LOT of great general P-Car stuff. They also did a lot of "Top" lists.
Heres what I remember from reading last night:
In their "top" lists:
Best handling car: Porsche 944
Top Speed: Porsche 944 Turbo (157mph)
Best acceleration: Porsche 928S (they mentioned the 951/930 didnt qualify for some reason - I will have to re-read)
Most expensive: Porsche 928S
Best brakes: Audi 4000 CS Q I think
Best engine: Saab 9000 Turbo
Best gauges: MR2
Best seats: Porsche 944 (so simple yet so secure for all sizes...)
In in their 10 Best secton, the 951 made the list but they said the 944NA drove better unless you wanted to blast through canyons.
Also checked out the Summary Report on tested cars. The 930 had the fastest as-tested 0-60mph at 4.6s. Next was Ferrari Testarossa at 5.0s.
I also read test drive article on the 86 Grand Am SE. They pretty much made a two page joke of the car. The ergonomics were abysmal. Llittle plastic windows where guages are, a Speedo that is in a plastic window that flatlines then ramps up. 80% of the gauge cluster is nothing but a plastic panel.
In the 930 article they bitched and moaned about the turbo lag though much of it was from a faulty 1st car. The replacement they tested zinged, but they did say back in 1979 the car was in its own world and now the rest of the world had closed the gap on turbocharging and a model revision was probably appropriate to redistance the car.
Other stuff:
Four panel pullout of 944 and 944 Turbo ad. Very nice.
Goodyear/928 ad
Full page ad for an art house with 930 as focal point
Lengthy article on Porsche race cars (962 Lowenbraus at al)
Ive got another magazine I received that pits an 88 930 against a Cessna with a Porsche engine in it on the cover, but the magazine has never been opened and still has the plastic around it. Should I say screw it?
I threw so many old mags away about a year or two before I bought my 951. I never thought Id own a Porsche so I gave up holding on to all the great articles. I wish I had not done that b/c now Im buying them all back.
Finally, enyone getting Rolex spam mail in the last three weeks? Ive gotten probably 800-1000 spams on faux Rolexes.
11-02-2004, 01:54 PM
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Very likely. Im gonna have to splice all the panels together though in photoshop like i did to the 930 ad someone posted for me. Theres a couple other Porsche ads in the mag too Ill scan.
11-02-2004, 02:53 PM
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I'm getting the rolex things.
So it said porsche 944 as the best handling, was this compared to ferrari cars and such as well? or only cars in teh same price range?
So it said porsche 944 as the best handling, was this compared to ferrari cars and such as well? or only cars in teh same price range?
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11-02-2004, 02:53 PM
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All cars.
11-02-2004, 03:06 PM
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UD, I have the big, full color dealer brochure for the 944 from 1985.5. If you have any interest in scanning it for yourself, let me know, you can borrow it.
11-02-2004, 04:33 PM
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Tifo-
I have same brochure. At least Im not the only one perusing EBay at dark hours of the night.
1986 951 was fastest production car in the world for sale in the USA as is my understanding. 928 didnt surpass it until the S4 came out in '87 and climbed from 288hp to 316hp @165(?).
I have same brochure. At least Im not the only one perusing EBay at dark hours of the night.
1986 951 was fastest production car in the world for sale in the USA as is my understanding. 928 didnt surpass it until the S4 came out in '87 and climbed from 288hp to 316hp @165(?).
11-02-2004, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by UDPride
1986 951 was fastest production car in the world for sale in the USA as is my understanding. 928 didnt surpass it until the S4 came out in '87 and climbed from 288hp to 316hp @165(?).
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11-02-2004, 08:20 PM
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Hey UDPride-
If you have any articles scanned you really should post them on here, i've been looking for some vintage Porsche articles or any old car mags at my local used book store, it'd be great to see what they had to say back in the day. If you don't want to post any scans on here PM me and maybe we can trade, i've got a bunch of old road tests in text form that I yanked off a magazine search engine back when I was in college.
If you have any articles scanned you really should post them on here, i've been looking for some vintage Porsche articles or any old car mags at my local used book store, it'd be great to see what they had to say back in the day. If you don't want to post any scans on here PM me and maybe we can trade, i've got a bunch of old road tests in text form that I yanked off a magazine search engine back when I was in college.
11-07-2004, 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by UDPride
Ive got another magazine I received that pits an 88 930 against a Cessna with a Porsche engine in it on the cover, but the magazine has never been opened and still has the plastic around it. Should I say screw it?
