nberry:
fritz:
nberry:
I guess my issue is I am seriously trying to talk myself out of buying the car. Sadly, at least as of today, I have failed miserably.
That always was your problem, Nick. You could never argue a case convincingly, not even when it had real merit.
On the other hand, it could be my arguments did not have merit and thus my present failure. Now if Porsche could jettison part of its German soul and assimilate a little Italian, it just might come up with a beautiful car. However, I don't see that in the near future. German stylist much like their engineers rarely if ever stray off the line. They are afraid of the world beyond.
When German engineers learn to wrinkle the sheets in bed, they may break out.
What you say applies to a part of the buying public, that are attracted by flamboyance and extravagance in design (and often but not always at the expense of substance). Which is fair enough for you and others of the same taste, but not all of us enjoy this type of style.
I (and thousands of others) prefer the more minimal (you say conservative) carved-from-solid design of Porsche cars without the embellishments and visually striking features. A car is primarily an instrument and not an ornament to our way of thinking. I know that only a very small minority of owners of these spectacular cars care to drive them a lot, so perhaps for them they fall in the decoration category.
Excellent mid-engined designs for me: Carrera GT, Ferrari 308/328, Ferrari 355, Audi R8 (esp.Spyder).
OTT designs: All Lamborghinis, F430, 458, Zondas etc
Indifferent designs: New McLaren, various recent Lotus.
But, like we say in our language "in matters of taste there shouldn't be any quarrel".
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