Bjbpe

Just thought I would mention how good our '87 S4 looks compared to new sports cars. I've noticed that, although the 928 had a very unique appearance back in the '80s, now an awful lot of cars look very similar to our 20+ year old cars. I especially notice a distinct resemblance in the new Jaguars and Aston Martins.

Just thought I would open this up for anyone who wants to comment.

syoo8

Totally agree.

I live in a part of the country with very few 928s. There is one other 928S4 around town, and there was a 16 valve model on sale in a used parking lot for a few months.

Often when I drive up to a gas station people will comment on my "new Porsche." Pretty good for a 27-year-old car.

danglerb

I may have some element of bias, but I've yet to park my 928 anyplace where some other car seemed more stylish. All the modern "hot" car seem a bit cartoonish to me, rather than great basic style.

New Vette and Jag do look pretty nice from behind.

Chalkboss

Another thing I have noticed stylistically is that every single new car has a flattened vertical edge to the wheel wells. About an inch wide or so, running the entire wheel well of front and rear. Our wheel wells have no such feature, the edge is clean and unbroken. Love it. Even new porsches have the flattened edge, I wonder why all cars now have this?

martinss

I believe it is for aerodynamic efficiency. Wheel wells can account for 30% of drag, so a fairing that covers the wheel greatly reduces drag, but is impractical. The edging mimics the flat surface of a fairings, much as a Kamm tail mimics a fully aerodynamic tail.

Here are wheel wheels with full fairings; you can see that the flatness of the fairings match the edges of the wheel wells: http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-cont...on-Type-C2.jpg

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Ladybug83

Agreed

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OTR18WHEELER

I also noticed the fender lip on most of the newer cars, very generic. Easier for cross tooling for panels at the mfgr, easier for the body shop to kick out the fender benders of the "know how left lane 8 mph under the speed limit braking on ice covered bridges drivers".

Bjbpe

Just a note to SY008:

If you think you don't see many 928s in your neck of the woods, try our neighborhood here near Laramie, Wyoming. If you're not driving a 4 x 4 pickup, you're not living right. 928's? What are those?

Captain_Slow

Here's a very unbiased perspective...my wife's. She is from a very remote part of the Philippines. No one in her village owned a car. To "go to town" A Jeepney (a stretched *****'s Jeep left over from WW2) arrived in the morning and returned in the evening. When she arrived in America the only cars she had ever seen were Japanese and more recently Korean makes. She had no idea what a Porsche was...the name meant nothing to her and she had never seen a Porsche in life or in print or on TV. When I decided to buy the "88 S4 she knew only that it was a sports car with 4 seats so the whole family can ride together.

When I neared home I called and told her to come outside so she'd see it arrive. She looked shocked...with her facial expression a mix of "What is that?" and "That's awesome!". For several minutes she just walked around it as if I'd arrived in a space ship. She said "It looks like a new car....you said it was old". I replied "It's 25 years old". She didn't believe me...commenting on how she liked how it looked from the back...sweeping her hands over the rear as if tracing the curves. She said she liked all of it and she said "This car will always look good no matter how old it is....it looks very different from other cars" (she never heard any discussion of the 928 being considered timeless).

Since buying it she has noticed that some new cars look similar to the 928, but also comments that many cars are following the same styling trends/elements, seemingly copying each other. She can't tell them apart. There is a convertible roadster Jag at the Fair Oaks mall in Fairfax, VA that people can try to win in a drawing. Last week we were walking past it and she says "I don't like it, seems parts of it look like other cars. Your Porsche is shaped different. Seems nothing from other cars is in the design...so to me your car has a more interesting design".

Pretty cool to have fresh and unbiased eyes confirm all that I love about the 928 design.

stuartbrs

I think the 928 looks a lot better now than it did when it was released... My 81S gets a lot of attention, perhaps more so now than ever before (Ive owned it for 12 years).

The Fixer

This is true, these cars still turn heads and are still GTs to be reckoned with.

Maybe this (advanced outward design) is why so many expect them to perform or compare them to modern machinery.

I enjoy them for what they are.

Nice to read these enthusiastic comments.

Doug Gennrich

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rgs944

The 928 is the ultimate ticket for driving something modern and it does not cost you 30K a year in interest, insurance and depreciation. I am guessing I have about $15K total including purchase price and upgrades in my 928. I imagine it is worth at least that now with the SC all other upgrades. . It is paid for and also costs nothing to license and insure each year. I laugh at the guys driving the new Vettes and Porches and what it costs them each year. Of course they probably laugh at me too because I can not afford to drive a new car.

soltino

911 and Cayman looking more and more like 928.

tino