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Originally Posted by BSiple
A 2009 911 weighs 3,164 pounds. A 2009 911 Turbo weighs 3,572 pounds.
Heck, even a Caymen S weighs 3,031 pounds.
I am guessing there is a lot of additional weight due to saftey reg's.
What's your point Sherwood?
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Is the Dodge Challenger safer because it weighs a half a ton more than a '09 911? Can a car maker claim some engineering advantage when a "flagship" performance vehicle has a solid rear end and leaf springs? Thank God they eventually went to disc brakes (on the front for a long time and eventually to all four). Some say it's lazy engineering. Others will merely compare it favorably with a 38 year old design that only worked well on smooth roads and the drag strip and had the same relative build quality.
Unlike many here, I'm not enamored by the latest pony car offerings by the big 3.... or the 3 as it is. Just MHO. I guess my fuzzy memories of yesteryear are not as sharp as others.
Here's an arbitrary sampling of MT's Cars of the Year for perspective:
1992 Cadillac Seville Touring Sedan
1991 Chevrolet Caprice Classic LTZ
1990 Lincoln Town Car
1989 Ford Thunderbird SC
1988 Pontiac Grand Prix
1987 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe
I consider MT the precursor to email spam, but in a hard copy format. You don't believe everything you read in spam email do you?
Sherwood