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The 944 was over engineered, but a great car in its day. I am just saying that to evolve the design to todays spec would require similar moves to Lotus.
Anyone can stick a large engine in a car, a modern looking body and it will look the part as well as go quite fast in a straight line. Just look at most of the cars we produce in the USA, it seems we have lost our engineering souls. It makes me cringe when I see leaf springs on our 'modern' SUV's, I thought that they went out with the horse and cart. And, for all of the tuning benefits of some of the engines produced by GM, they have still not moved on from pushrods.
I digress...
I would love to see a well designed, well engineered 944, with a similar shape, a similar sized front-mounted blown engine, similar balance and handling and taking advantage of up-to-date technology. Wouldn't we all on this forum.
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Another thought was making a carbon fiber (or fiberglass if you want to paint it) piece that would fit in the space where those lovely middle light bars go- except you wouldn't have to move the license place, it would be recessed so it was flush with the car.
Solution 2 is actually quite doable, but I need to make my CF door panels first. They might delete the door pockets and delete the front speaker hole (in my case). Then I can make speaker pods that can be positioned at will and tilted toward the driver's head (as opposed to the side of my leg).
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I would not like to see the 944 brought back. The Cayman is a perfectly good entry-level Porsche coupe. It has a better platform, a stronger hatch, six cylinders, and looks great. The only thing they could do to make it a modern 944 is make more features optional and cut the price by a few thousand.
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I think you've forgotten what your 944 has for a rear suspension. ![ooops](https://rennlist.com/forums/graemlins/icon501.gif)
I would not like to see the 944 brought back. The Cayman is a perfectly good entry-level Porsche coupe. It has a better platform, a stronger hatch, six cylinders, and looks great. The only thing they could do to make it a modern 944 is make more features optional and cut the price by a few thousand.
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I would not like to see the 944 brought back. The Cayman is a perfectly good entry-level Porsche coupe. It has a better platform, a stronger hatch, six cylinders, and looks great. The only thing they could do to make it a modern 944 is make more features optional and cut the price by a few thousand.
The cayman is fine, but it won't fit 2 of my kids in the back on the way to school. It won't fit my guitar and amplifier (as far as I know) with the rear seats folded down.
It definitely won't fit my 6' ladder, a couple spools of audioquest or crestron or monster cat6 wire, my tool bag and my patching supplies for my on-side jobs.
And at the end of the day, I'm really not taken with the cayman the way I am with the front engined p-cars.
Again, I think the gist of the initial post is that it would be nice to have a new 944 without the old leaks and problems, with maybe a few updates.
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Some here seem to think the 944 has all this superior engineering, just because of its country of origin. They've conveniently overlooked the real gems of 944 design, like the steel bolt going through a cooling passage into an aluminum block.
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It makes me cringe when I see leaf springs on our 'modern' SUV's, I thought that they went out with the horse and cart.
I think you've forgotten what your 944 has for a rear suspension.
Its not exactly leaf springs, and if you are serious you can get coilovers.
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My car only has 54K. I hate to day it but it is like driving a new car.. .. . I have changed the motor 3x trans 1x... .. Fragile is an understatement if you go to the track. Major component replacement is just a part of owning one if you want to track it with complete abandoned.