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Yin Shih said:
If we insist that a Porsche should look like a "911", then I think the marque is living off of poseurs (where looks are more important than automotive techonology) more than not.
Hi Yin Shih, welcome to the discussion.
Allow me to make the inverse argument. That Porsche has been able to provide a technically competent, competitively performing, dynamically satisfying vehicle in the 911 form-factor all these years is to be admired and celebrated.
In a world of ever-faster changes in taste, where fads proliferate, the 911 is a constant of form flowing through the years. It has become a touchstone in a sea of superficial "bling" and has become the essence of timeless good taste.
Some prefer only the very new (edgy) in form or the "next" radical idea in function, forever living in a dissatisfied present. Endlessly chasing the next new thrill ultimately becomes boring. And, each new thing become boring ever faster as the progression continues.
Porsche offers the opposite; a technically interesting and highly competent value with an attractive continuity that one may savor over long periods. Admirers find the engineering wizardry so deeply suffused that many become experts in the minutiae of the mechanical design as a way to luxuriate at a higher level over many years. There is a human comfort in not "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" to chase automotive design fashions.
My questions:
(1) Does making a delicious wine in the same manner for hundreds of years in the same Chateaux make the wine uninteresting?
(2) Are admirers of such a wine to be considered poseurs, or merely to have good taste?
Honestly, I don't take this personal, but I think that I can very well understand what Porsche is about... that it is more than an "equation" to cash (some of you wrote), of course! I love the 911 and especially the 997 since it combines past, present and future so fitting! I think that this is a place to share thoughts and knowledge about the beautiful cars and that that any offenses to the other gender should not be posted here.... There are women out there who do understand the beauty and technical features of cars and some might doing them wrong.
