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I personally do not want them to use the 928 monicker for their new Panamera-based coupe.

In my opinion, Porsche is lowering itself if they do another "retro" car, and use 928 styling cues on their new 2-door V8 GT. There are plenty of designs in the world; why do they need to try to resurrect one that is gone, when they can potentially produce another winner? The 928 isn't for today's market. It had its time, and the remaining 25,000 examples in the world remind the 6.5 billion inhabitants [and a few animals~] what a great design it is every day. I can tell from the looks I get that I brighten people's lives every day when I park that car in front of them. "Oh wow! Which one is that? Is it a 944?" I hear from people in parking lots all the time. Seems everyone has seen the design, but nobody knows what it is. They know it isn't a 911, so the next name that comes up is 944, since there were a lot of them.

-My name for this car, the name that I submitted to Porsche and have talked about on this website, Reutterwerk.com, and on that other website...is "Culebra". It means "snake" in Spanish, and is the name of an island just off the east coast of Puerto Rico. Thus it has a Caribbean connection [just like "Cayenne" and "Cayman"], snakes are known to be fast... and it has a "C" at the front, just like any other Porsche that has sporting pretentions and has a name instead of a number. And it even sounds vaguely like the word "coupe", which is exactly what it will be: A two-door car with a hatch.

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