Doug DeMuro drives: 928 GTS - YouTube
07-28-2017, 06:16 PM
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07-28-2017, 08:58 PM
#48
Nordschleife Master
I've never heard a conflicting story. Everything I've read - everything - says that Porsche intended to phase out the 911 (which was aging badly, used a layout from a bare-bones, cheap-to-build economy car designed 30 years prior, and was unsuited to American super highways) in favor of the 928 in the early to mid-80s. That would have made the 911 a 20 year old car.
Frankly, they should have.
Frankly, they should have.
And I disagree with Shawn. Even as a 20+ year old car, the 911 was still very popular. Still is. Porsche knew this.
They didn't want to replace or discontinue the 911. But they were afraid that they were going to have to.
Remember the late 60s and early 70s? Remember what happened to the cars? Pollution controls and safety regulations put a huge dent in performance. It took a couple decades before they were able to make cars perform as well as before.
Porsche was genuinely afraid that pollution control laws would doom the air cooled motor. And that proposed safety laws would doom any rear engined car. Remember Nader and the Corvair? He had no more love for the 911 or the Beetle. Remember that the Beetle was discontinued in the US a couple years before it ceased production world wide?
Porsche had very real concerns that their biggest market, the US, would be closed off. So they came up with a backup plan.
They also found ways to keep the air cooled 911 'pollution friendly' and the proposed safety laws that would have ended rear engined cars never came to pass.
So the 911 lived on. With all it's history and enthusiasts.
And the 928 did reasonably well for a while, but when Porsche had to make some hard decisions in the 90s, the 928 and the 968 were done, and the 996 and Boxter became the "future".
07-29-2017, 09:25 AM
#51
Burning Brakes
I only made it 4:46 into the video.
He's trying to be cute. But all sorts of old cars had interesting solutions to ergronmics. In the meantime, everything has become standardized.
So what?
This was a waste of time.
He's trying to be cute. But all sorts of old cars had interesting solutions to ergronmics. In the meantime, everything has become standardized.
So what?
This was a waste of time.
07-29-2017, 12:16 PM
#53
Of course if you look at any old car with 2017 eyes it's gonna have quirks, but this guy doesn't know his *** from a whole in the ground (but I bet his boyfriend does).
07-29-2017, 03:26 PM
#54
Rennlist Member
No the least bit surprised you would miss it as you'd agree with most of the points they were trying to make. Once some of the sister publications were being shut down/downsized et al and the election was going on, they were preaching about everything from Trump to smoking on an airplane to the proper way to take it in the ****.
07-29-2017, 04:01 PM
#57
Burning Brakes
Thread Starter
07-29-2017, 06:03 PM
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