jlanka

Seeing as how I hope to take delivery next week, I've been getting my pre-delivery jollies by watching this awesome video.

stealthboy

Love it! I think I've watched that one at least three times now .

jlanka

I love some of the quotes from there:

- An automotive icon
- One of the most famous sports cars ever built
- A machine known by just 3 numbers... 9-11
- The old Professor Porsche was already working, you can't tear this down
- Can you imagine Apple coming out with an iPhone that's shaped like one of the brick phones from the 1980s, or even better one of those ringy dingy phones from the 1920s?
- It's never been about like "Hey Ladies", it's not about that
- Porsche builds some very fast cars
- A fast, sexy machine IS the Holy Grail
- You have a shape and a layout that you can't change, or the purists go berserk
- That IS bothering the purists because frankly every change you make bothers the purists
- The car was based on the chassis of the VW beetle and the competitors didn't sleep (356)
- Develops an almost fanatical following amongst serious sports car enthusiasts
- You won't find any part on the engine you don't need
- Of all the work needing to be done, perhaps this is the best job... Putting the name Porsche on the back of the car
- Unless you're German, it's full name is almost unpronounceable (PDK)
- Taking a problem and solving it in some sort of engineering way that is elegant and simple and that really works, is art to Germans