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Originally posted by porschenut
Secondly, the 928 is the most luxurious, most advanced, best performing (yes, it is), fastest, street car Porsche ever produced.
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Sorry, but other Porsches have since passed it by. The current crop of twin-turbo 911s are faster, more advanced, and perform better--if you judge performance by things like 0-60 times, braking distance, skidpad G's...
Heck, even the "lowly" 914 performs better than the 928 if you are talking about quick transitions. Which is, as my "esteemed" 914 colleagues have just pointed out, what autoX is all about.
A buddy of mine had a 94 (?) 928 GT. Heckuva car. Got up and
moved. Sailed through long sweepers very nicely. Made lovely V8 racket while doing so. Did not like rapid changes of direction, and felt (and was!) very heavy compared to my 914.
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Dude, the 928 gets a salute AND a bow, even if you're not a fan of it.
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You can bow if you like--just make sure I can get the heck out of the way while you lean down and take your eyes off the road.
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And the 944, even though it's not a favorite of mine, outsold every other model EVERY single year it was produced.
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Funny, the same thing can be said for the 912, in its day. And the 914, in its day. And the 924, in its day. And I think even the Boxster, today. Wait--you mean the less-expensive cars sell more than the more-expensive ones?? Wow--I guess that whole "supply and demand" thing they taught us about in high school really
does work!!
...Oh, I agree with the "sympathy wave" for the middies. Mostly because they've spent a whole ton of time and money eliminating the original problems of the US-spec 75-77 cars. (Especially the CA-spec ones!)
...Come to think of it, the "sympathy wave" is not inappropriate for 914s, too! Their owners fight rust, cracking cylinder heads, funky analog-electronic fuel injection, and the "Not A Real Porsche" attitude from those who drive other Porsches. If that doesn't deserve sympathy, I don't know what does!!
--DD