Another nice article about the 928!
03-30-2017, 07:49 AM
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Good article, with different twists than the usual, especially the significance of perfectionist Stanley Kubrick driving one. Thanks for posting.
This caught my eye, if only because I am on the verge of making a deal for an '83 911SC: "If pushed for an analogy, one could do worse than to compare the Porsche 928 with Kubrick’s 2001 - A Space Odyssey: an excessively ambitious, emotionally detached, intellectually-testing landmark movie. The 928 indefatigable older, smaller, simpler brother, the 911, is more fun, more archaic and accessible. It is Star Wars."
This caught my eye, if only because I am on the verge of making a deal for an '83 911SC: "If pushed for an analogy, one could do worse than to compare the Porsche 928 with Kubrick’s 2001 - A Space Odyssey: an excessively ambitious, emotionally detached, intellectually-testing landmark movie. The 928 indefatigable older, smaller, simpler brother, the 911, is more fun, more archaic and accessible. It is Star Wars."
03-30-2017, 09:23 AM
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"Clinical, cold, sophisticated, elaborate, perfectionist, intellectual - maybe even soulless."
Compared to what? Asmodeus?
Opinion originally conceived by someone who'd never driven a 928. Certainly, not a GT.
The fact that Kubric DD'd a 928 is not shocking. He was a nut. Like us.
Compared to what? Asmodeus?
Opinion originally conceived by someone who'd never driven a 928. Certainly, not a GT.
The fact that Kubric DD'd a 928 is not shocking. He was a nut. Like us.
03-30-2017, 07:41 PM
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Ricardo, thanks for posting. Very interesting article.
There is a kind of passion that perfectionists have that is simply often overlooked by people who act emotionally. Passion does not have to be "emotional." So, I can see where the guy might be coming from using words like souless, even if I have a different opinion.
I am also aware that many people view me just like the like the writer is describing the 928. So, yeah, every car gets the driver it deserves. It's a kind of metaphysical convergence I guess.
The German word for passion is Leidenschaft, which literally means "suffering-ship." Suffering through anything to get where you are going so-to-say. It is a much better better description of passion and can't be confused with emotional.
There is a kind of passion that perfectionists have that is simply often overlooked by people who act emotionally. Passion does not have to be "emotional." So, I can see where the guy might be coming from using words like souless, even if I have a different opinion.
I am also aware that many people view me just like the like the writer is describing the 928. So, yeah, every car gets the driver it deserves. It's a kind of metaphysical convergence I guess.
The German word for passion is Leidenschaft, which literally means "suffering-ship." Suffering through anything to get where you are going so-to-say. It is a much better better description of passion and can't be confused with emotional.
03-30-2017, 10:17 PM
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Well stated. When I think of the reserved, passionate, perfectionist 928 owner...I think of Bertrand!!
Ricardo, thanks for posting. Very interesting article.
Well stated... When I think of the reserved, passionate, perfectionist owner of a 928... I think of Bertrand!
There is a kind of passion that perfectionists have that is simply often overlooked by people who act emotionally. Passion does not have to be "emotional." So, I can see where the guy might be coming from using words like souless, even if I have a different opinion.
I am also aware that many people view me just like the like the writer is describing the 928. So, yeah, every car gets the driver it deserves. It's a kind of metaphysical convergence I guess.
The German word for passion is Leidenschaft, which literally means "suffering-ship." Suffering through anything to get where you are going so-to-say. It is a much better better description of passion and can't be confused with emotional.
Well stated... When I think of the reserved, passionate, perfectionist owner of a 928... I think of Bertrand!
There is a kind of passion that perfectionists have that is simply often overlooked by people who act emotionally. Passion does not have to be "emotional." So, I can see where the guy might be coming from using words like souless, even if I have a different opinion.
I am also aware that many people view me just like the like the writer is describing the 928. So, yeah, every car gets the driver it deserves. It's a kind of metaphysical convergence I guess.
The German word for passion is Leidenschaft, which literally means "suffering-ship." Suffering through anything to get where you are going so-to-say. It is a much better better description of passion and can't be confused with emotional.
03-31-2017, 01:26 PM
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I've read that the language you grow up with has a real effect on how you come to view the world. The nature of the German language, therefore, can be presumed to somehow have an effect on their cars. This video may help us understand this effect: