Maybe Porsche needs to fail...
RC's thread to urge Porsche to listen and put out the 997 TT with at least 500bhp reflects the majority of enthusiasts on this board. If 480bhp is confirmed then I will be very dissapointed even though I won't be in a position to afford one in the meantime.
In an age where the likes of BMW is preparing to unleash the E90 M3 with at least 420bhp and with the M5 & M6 starting with 507bhp with pretty decent spec, a 997 Carrera S with a 'puny' 355bhp seems pretty poor value (heck, you even have to pay extra for bleeding metalic paint and PCM Nav module!).
I wonder how long Porsche's loyal customer base will put up with this prolonged ass-rape situation with releasing every successive evolution with tiny bhp increase cancelled by weight gain.
Surely, it can't be long when people will wake up and smell the coffee and think the unthinkable: maybe to jolt Porsche back into doing what they do best and put out products that is truly the fastest and most cutting edge, we may have to desert their products and make them suffer financially to bring them out of complacency...
maybe by bringing them down to it's knees back in the 993 days is the only way for them to listen to the most important people: you