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Originally posted by kwm
I have owned many Jap cars, all Mazdas. 3 RX-7s and more than a few Miata's so I am familiar with Jap cars. I owed Jap cars at the time b/c A) I could afford them and B) They were all turn key cars (everytime I turned the key they started) and in college and early in a work career that is very important to a car owner plus I lived in apartments and had no garage which is important to a Porsche owner b/c it is a Porsche and not just another of the heard of Jap cars. Yes I loved my Jap cars and yes they had a high level of performance but they were not a Porsche and they do not come close to drawing the level of attention that a Porsche draws. I too like the WRX line. I too had a WRX race me on the interstate and b/c of the inexperience of the driver I killed him. I too have heard stories that end in an opposite manner.
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I cannot imagine a FD does not draw as much attention if not more than a 911.
My dad has a pristine FD and is always getting stopped in parking lots and having to roll down his wondow at a light to tell someone about it.
My RX7 is funny, no one even looks at it and if they do it a reaction much the same as most on this BB. They look in disdain. At DE's some who are walking the pits to see whats there will scoff at it and its 4" exhaust tip and vented F&F style hood. I get such a kick out of the reaction to the car, sometimes I walk away from it for a while and walk up with someone looking around and listen to them make fun of it.
Then it hits the track.... End of story, perfect 50/50 balance over 400 to the wheels, running on sticky GT2 class slicks, less than 2500 lbs on the scales.
Then I get visitors wondering whats up with it. Sometimes the same people that made fun of it.
Never make fun of what you do not know. Yes my 911 is a BLAST to drive hard and VERY rewarding but it is just not as fast or well behaved at its limits as my RX7.
Autocross? Thats what I built it for. When I show up with it, its either a guy with a kit car Cobra or my RX7 that leaves with the FTD and that is mostly due to one of us making a mistake. The Cobra is a class faster than my car but I give him hell.
I love it more for not what it can do but how on one ever expects it, and how it pisses others off when it does what it does.
On topic:
Driving my 911 home from the purchase.
- in Columbia SC I had a Civic blast past me and put on his 4 way blinkers (a sign to you that you lost a race) The problem here was I was on the exit ramp getting off to get lunch.
- In Cape Canaveral Florida, A Ford Lightning blasted past me scaring me to death. I never saw him coming because he passed me on the right, I was in the right lane, he was on the entrance ramp and was excited to see a 911, he taunted me for 20 miles before giving up and moving on.
This was when I was on my way home with the car after buying it.
I cannot count how many kids in Jap cars step up to me every day I drive the 911. I ignore them all, its not worth it to get a huge ticket orworse be involved with an accident.
Is it tempting to clean some of their clocks? Hell yeah! It takes a lot of will power for me to be good.
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All that said, the 911 is 10X more fun to drive than the RX7 just not as fast. If given a choice of which car to drive on any given day (even a DE or AX) I pick the 911 because its a more engaging car more of a drivers car. But, the RX7 is not shabby either.
