Excellent and thoughtful post. These magazine articles are simply designed to fill  space and entice readership w/ provocation. Is the Cayman better than the 73 RS? Is the 997 GT3 really better than the 996 GT3? Is the base Carrera more practical than a Cup Car? Your original point that no one "needs" a sports car is not only true, but once acknowledged effectively ends such jabbering, in print or otherwise!


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Carpe Diem--life is but a crack of light bounded by eternities of darkness (Nabokov)