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991 Targa Caught Testing...spy shots
Disguised as a convertible, the Targa design will incorporate a removable center roof section and a Targa roll-bar that helps to give the car more of a classic look.
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The 997 targa was literally perfect. The targa bar doesn't strike me as something it'd want on my 100k car.
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Why would anyone want this? When they already make such a beautiful cab with a top that goes up and down with the flick of a switch and has roll-over protection?
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The 991 cab has possibly the best looking rag top I've ever seen.
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991 Targa Caught Testing...spy shots
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Interesting as a novelty; don't think I'll see many "in the wild," however.
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Well appears I am in the minority but I like the idea. I'd really like it if they followed Ruf's model and go totally throwback with a soft window targa. Unfortunetly for them I'm about 100K short of being able to buy one. . .
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And who is to say at this point that with a push of a button the top does not raise a couple of inches, rotates to an incline angle, and retracts into the back seat area somehow. The lines work better than any Targa before it, which may cause coupe lovers to worry about their status in life.;) |
I'm a traditional targa guy. I liked the slide back roof well enough, but those cars still had bars across the window area that messed up the look. If I was buying a new 911, I would certainly consider this.
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I drove a Geo Tracker for nearly 20 years, and it never quite felt like an open top with those bars there. That is what the 993 Targa and water pumper 911's Targa's suffer from as well. It is the experience from inside the car, not the outside that a potential owner should be concerned about - in my opinion. A bird in a cage is not free, he can only pretend to be. |
I like it also--but I think all of us that do are just Targa guys to begin with. To each his own....I do agree that the 991 is gorgeous.
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that green Ruf car is smokin hot
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Count me in as a 'like' also. I think it looks great with the lines of the car, and is a great nod to the old-school classic targa look - it makes the car look more like a Porsche, and less like everything else on the road these days. . . .
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The second this new targa rolls off the showroom floor, our air cooled targas will increase in resale.
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I like it. Of course, as a Targa owner, I am biased. I am glad to see a return to old look of the entire section coming off.
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Since full cabriolets are for trophy wives and hairdressers, it's nice to see Porsche offering real men an open-top option.
And no, that was not meant to be in green. :D I hope they sell a crap-load of them. |
Porsche 911 Targa Images Revealed Ahead of Detroit....
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Count me in in the 'like' column....
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Not bad at all!
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Cool, and it got me thinking - so I did a search on the competition.
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IMHO the 991 Targa would only be cool if both the center section and the rear window section could be removed. Maybe the rear window can duck into the retracted decklid? Would be the closest thing to a retractable hardtop, esp if the center section can fold in half and be stowed in the frunk.
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If it has a removable rear window, then what is the point? Its a convertible with a wonky looking rollbar?
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The more I look at the Porsche top, the more it looks like the Lotus solution.
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maybe it will drive down prices on the 997 Targa?
I need a 4th car... |
Video: 2014 Porsche 911 Targa prototype spotted (991) - PerformanceDrive
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I vote very cool, especially as a power targa. Modern buyers of a $100k+ car aren't going to want to manually release levers, climb out, lift off a roof panel, and store it somewhere.
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I love it. I think the last few targa designs were awkward and a little ugly.
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Count me as a like it.
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I don't particularly care for the car as presented in the original post (the disguised test mule car), but the other pictures of the Targa, I like a lot...
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Looking at the cool retract mechanism, now I REALLY like it :).
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Has anyone figured out why they would go for a cloth look on a top which would work just as well with a hard-shell material?
I mean they are not folding it, right? A carbon fiber top would look trick is all I'm saying. |
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