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Originally Posted by JMS935
I don’t get it either Rawk. Getting boosted is the only option. My entry Porsche was a wimpy ass 1972 normally aspirated POS targa, I couldn’t wait to get rid of it and graduate to a turbo. I haven’t driven a NA Porsche since, good riddance.
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Each to their own, and I see what SickRick is saying (what does one find entertaining?), but in a car, under 300hp/300 ft.lbs torque does not entertain me, as less stones than that does not provide the brute acceleration that I enjoy above all other motoring experiences (if it doesn't put you back in the seat, with authority, when the throttle is opened, then it's not a real "sports car").
My entry into Porsche was a 914 - had two of them in my early 20s; one was totaled when I was rearended (not like THAT!
) on one of the highways here (when stopped for another wreck that had recently taken place) and the other one I built the engine (cam, big bore kit, Webbers, etc.) and even it was slow as molasses by my current standards (at the time, I though is was sort of quick, but wasn't satisfied). Now, a low horsepower machine like that, regardless of light weight, does not interest me whatsoever.
Honestly, I'm sufficiently entertained by just having the available power, and knowing that I built it like so, even if I rarely use all that's there (I do not "do the twisties" on public roads - not fun to me . . . but accelerating hard on the local highways, whizzing by people with lots of noise and stink, and generally behaving like a stereotypical Porsche douchebag/jackass on them, is another story!
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Originally Posted by Matt Monson
Some people like foreplay. Others just want to take a blue pill.
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Wutz, "foreplay" - that extra tissue that some cultures commonly remove from newborn males?!?!