Tom, Adias might have "insulted" your car but not you.
You insulted him, not his car. Huge difference in my opinion!
We are here to discuss cars. Many people say the Cayenne is just a re-badged Volkswagen Touareg. I have no hard feelings towards these people because if they don't know the development background as I do, their opinion is understandable. A certain amount of irony and sarcasm is permitted and I have to confess that I sometimes get a little bit too involved in a passionate post, resulting in some pretty aggressive comments. But I try to stay civilized and I don't insult. The fact that our automated word censoring system was targeted by your post shows that you were a little bit out of line.
My personal experience with 944/924 owners isn't always the best, exactly because of a certain reaction when somebody criticizes their car. One german 924 driver even thought he met me on the street (which wasn't true) in my Cayenne and he was so p.ss.d that I (of course not really me
) outran him in the Cayenne and didn't even salute him, that he apparently seized posting on this forum. I have to live with that but to be honest: I don't have a clue why people react that way. I mean a car is a car and as much as I love my Porsches, I would never take such things to the heart. It would be different if someone insults my family but hey, we're talking about cars, a thing, nothing worth fighting for and having hard feelings afterwards.
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even today i would take a stroker or supercharged 928 over any 911 variant
actually shows to me that you care too much about straightline performance and that you didn't understand the idea behind Porsche cars and especially the 911. The 911 is not about red light to red light racing, it is about a very unique rear engine design (how many cars still have that, even the new VW Beetle has a front engine...), incredible traction and endless fun. Try it, you might get addicted.
The 928 was supposed to replace the 911, I'm not sure you know that. But it didn't happen, the unique rear engine design and drive feel of the 911 are something which only 911 owners can appreciate. Walter Röhrl, the famous german race driver and Porsche development testdriver recently bought an old 911 with 231 HP for himself. For those nice moments in life... Why didn't he get a 928 or a 944?
No hard feelings my friend but sometimes we have to face reality. And you can't talk about tradition and mention at the same time a supercharged 928. We have those HP monster over here in Germany too, sometimes with gigantic wings in the rear and monster wheels which stick out from the arches. But in the first curve, they're history, no matter if they have 500 or 700 HP.
Porsche is about having fun, not posing. And of course older Porsche cars provide a lot of fun too. But the 924/944 actually drive like every other car from it's production age, nothing special about them. And this is the reason why a lot of people don't consider them to be real Porsches, not to speak about the development process behind these models and the parts used. The 928 of course is a different story, this is where I fully agree with you. But every time I see a modified 928 with a wing big like the one on a Cessna or other bling bling mods, I'm always close to throwing up. Honestly.
And now...peace man.
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