"Also, I never liked the way the air-cooled ones sounded when you ran them hard."
Finally, someone has hit the nail right on the head. Now I can finally admit to not liking it when the ball goes through the hoop when I'm playing basketball or to my irritation at the way Cindy Crawford looks when she takes her clothes off...
In all seriousness, though, the 996 is a reliable, very forgiving car. It smacks a little too much of focus groups and corporate-driven (as opposed to engineering-driven) thinking for some 911 owners, but it's also, without a doubt, a very great car. You probably won't want to do much of the work on it, though, unless your budget for computer troubleshooting systems is sizable.
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Jack Olsen
1973 911 T sunroof coupe