OT: Dan Neil on the Panamera
06-28-2009, 12:13 AM
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06-28-2009, 02:59 PM
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06-29-2009, 12:38 PM
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On the Turbo, the four-piece rear wing deploys in stages until, at 127 mph, it attains a 10-degree attack angle for max down force until the car reaches its top speed of 188 mph. I hit 180 mph, and the car couldn't have been more civilized and nailed down. What kind of sick mind makes a car cabin quiet at those speeds?
06-29-2009, 02:43 PM
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I didn't see it as necessarily positive. He felt it "didn't drive like a Porsche..."
Neil (a Pulitzer Prize winner, btw) writes in a somewhat cynical/witty manner. When he said "what kind of sick mind..." I read that as saying he'd prefer some sound coming from the motor at that speed. He's addicted to the sound of Ferrari and AMG Black Series, as he as posted in the past.
Neil (a Pulitzer Prize winner, btw) writes in a somewhat cynical/witty manner. When he said "what kind of sick mind..." I read that as saying he'd prefer some sound coming from the motor at that speed. He's addicted to the sound of Ferrari and AMG Black Series, as he as posted in the past.
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06-30-2009, 01:24 AM
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I really enjoyed the article. Very thought provoking, and Dan Neil can really turn a phrase:
"If you've spent much time in a Boxster, Cayman or 911 Carrera, new or old, you know the feeling of these cars: cold-rolled and heat-tempered, hard and light, nap of the Earth, edgy and reactive, ineffably masculine, a disposition that is to other sports cars what Dexedrine is to Geritol".
Then after a fairly glowing review of the car, I got this about the Panamerica:
"The damned car is magnificent. But it is not made of the same charmed isotopes as the 911, and therefore not a Porsche. Sorry".
For me I don't care if Porsche has to build pick-up trucks to survive. If a sedan is the answer, I say have at it guys! Just don't forget your core customer.
Ed
"If you've spent much time in a Boxster, Cayman or 911 Carrera, new or old, you know the feeling of these cars: cold-rolled and heat-tempered, hard and light, nap of the Earth, edgy and reactive, ineffably masculine, a disposition that is to other sports cars what Dexedrine is to Geritol".
Then after a fairly glowing review of the car, I got this about the Panamerica:
"The damned car is magnificent. But it is not made of the same charmed isotopes as the 911, and therefore not a Porsche. Sorry".
For me I don't care if Porsche has to build pick-up trucks to survive. If a sedan is the answer, I say have at it guys! Just don't forget your core customer.
Ed
