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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Have you ever driven an 100% manual car at an autocross? I was talking about our regional autocross, not a track day. The course is all 1st and second gear, mostly 1st. It is all about fast steering.

Power steering would be nice for slow speed tight turn and parking lots, but the Porsche engineers did not provide it in the 1980s. My car takes ALL my shoulder strength to make really tight turns on an autocross course. It is nothing macho or bragging, it is just the facts. It is a real handicap for those corners. The Autocross on Sunday had a very tight turn to slow cars down for the exit. It was almost impossible to do in my car.

And any hard braking takes true skill to not lock up a tire or all the tires with no ABS, even on an autocross track.

My post was done in mostly humors way. No doubt at all a cheap Boxster S would be a far better choice for the autocross. I have been autocrossing my 911 for 25 years, and likely have done close to 200 autocrosses in it, and many different high speed track days. On the track, power steering is simply not needed, but ABS would sure be nice.

And if you are not feeling your ABS on a track, you are not stopping at even close to the limits of the brakes. That is why ABS is not allowed on most all race cars. They want the driver to modulate the brakes, not the computer. And most race cars have no traction control. My car is no race car, not even close. It is a comfortable highway GT cruiser street car. My wife is happy to ride with me on 6,000 mile road trips.

Modern cars are simply better at everything. No doubt. I drive my 85 911 all over the country 40 states and Canada so far. I plan to hit all the lower 48 states.

My post was supposed to be a humorous comparison of the difference in the 20 something folks driving a 2020 car compared to old man driving a car far older than most of the other drivers there.

I must have missed your post, that I guess must have precipitated this post?