m4ever:
fritz:
m4ever:
This is truly ridiculous if true. The Turbo deliveries started two months ago and there is already a talk about facelifts? The 911 is not an iphone. Porsche needs rather to hurry up with the successor to the Panamera , there novelty effect is over.
The "talk" is only on the internet - not from Porsche, and we all know that talk is cheap on the net. 
The reality is that when one model has been introduced the people responsible for developing it are already working on its successor, as the long lead times for designing, testing and tooling up for cars leaves them no alternative. Nothing new in that, unless you are comparing with the original 911 which only changed in small evolutionary steps from 1962 until about 1989, and to such an extent that it was an automotive dinosaur at the end of its life.
Hi Fritz, I guess this is pure internet speculation and I hope it stays that . You mention the original 911 that changed marginally until the end of the G series, well it was indeed an automotive dinosaur at the end of its life but still a very good one . Imho the engineering approach in adopting incremental improvements vs radical re-designs is what made the 911 the automotive icon it is today.
It's long life - in basically the same form - did mean that it built up a relatively big following over a generation of people who learnt to love it, warts and all. 
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