Do you suppose Porsche dropped the 928 because of OBDII?

[Maleficio]

928 was dropped in '95, right? OBDII went full active in spring '97, right?

Do you think Porsche just didn't feel like trying to meet those new stringent standards for the US market?

They could've kept selling them elsewhere, but maybe it just wasn't worth the effort after losing the US market?

[XLR8928]

I'm of the opinion that Porsche felt the series had run it's course, and didn't want to commit the resources to redesign it. I know the 911 is evergreen, but the 928 didn't have the rabid following that the rear engine cars do. The 924/944/et-al is another example. Great car but....OTOH, because of this, a supercar that would have been out of reach, ....is obtainable by us, the gearheads.
-K

[Danglerb]

The 928 was over at the latest in 1994 (1995 was actually leftovers that didn't sell), and practically over maybe as early as 1989 with the end of production scheduled X years later.

Porsche buys the engine management devices from Bosch, so would have purchased something Bosch OBDII, nothing inherent to the 928 not to, its actually very clean burning motor.

[Alan in AZ]

When you are only selling <200 cars per year its pretty easy to decide to pull the plug...

Alan