2020 NEXT GENERATION 992 SPY PICS & RELEASE
09-07-2018, 10:46 PM
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09-07-2018, 10:53 PM
#2552
The spoiler is awful... It's fixed wing or nothing for me. I have a duck tail on my 991.1 and the only 991.2 I would buy is a GT3 or Turbo. I HATE the deployable trunk wing. When ever I see it on the current generation it just looks unfinished and out of place.
If the 992 doesn't have a fixed wing option (which I know the GT cars most likely will), I will be very torn on what to do next. I hope they figured out the cooling issue so the duck tail can make a come back
If the 992 doesn't have a fixed wing option (which I know the GT cars most likely will), I will be very torn on what to do next. I hope they figured out the cooling issue so the duck tail can make a come back
09-07-2018, 10:58 PM
#2554
The 997 did sell more than the 996 but until that time the 996 was , i believe, the best selling 911 of all time.
Call me crazy but I loved my 996 and found little to be offended about. It was a logical and much needed refresh , it was small , I thought it looked great once the clear turn markers came into play in 2000 , it sounded great, drove extremely well and felt very much like a focused , pure and dedicated sports car. Probably because it was produced in a time when Porsche still had their head on straight and weren’t taking design objectives from the other questionable vehicles in their line up ( because they had none at the time to become side tracked with )
09-07-2018, 11:15 PM
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09-07-2018, 11:25 PM
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No, the ducktail doesn't wrap around and cut off the rear quarter upper edge line that runs to the rear or the car. This spoiler is just epic-ly bad. Look at that side view, look at the hard end of the C pillar, it just stops. Tell me that doesn't just look like an open rear trunk. Honestly, we can debate all day about purity, size, etc., but that spoiler is beyond debate. It's just plain awful and it takes a real emperors-new-clothes approach to argue differently.
I didn't write that I thought it looked good just that it's an indication of how the duck tail might look. If you look at the side-view in this posthttps://rennlist.com/forums/992/9734...l#post15273050
and mentally trace the outline it does look like a duck tail.
And yeah, all the gaps at the rear when it's open are monumentally unattractive.
Otherwise, I agree, the non-capital-T-Turbo 911s do not look good when the spoiler is erect. I don't think I've ever seen a car with an extendible piece-of-the-bodywork spoiler that looked good.
09-07-2018, 11:28 PM
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09-07-2018, 11:33 PM
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Originally Posted by worf928
Oh? Explain how the flow over the intercooler inlets is different between a fixed spoiler and when the 'hood' is open at speed?
Under the open clam, there is some sort of venting and airflow something or another. There's something going on there. It's not just the airflow over the rear grill inlets.
09-07-2018, 11:38 PM
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09-07-2018, 11:51 PM
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It’s gonna be so good in terms of downforce that Porsche will start selling T shirts that say ‘Fear the Clam’
09-07-2018, 11:59 PM
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Exactly. It might not be, pedantically, a "Duck Tail" with all of the accompanying 'historical glory', but it is certainly possible to engineer a fixed rear wing. If this was not the case the little-T-Turbo 911s wouldn't work with the trunk lid extended.
Res ipsa loquitur I believe.
09-08-2018, 12:01 AM
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