[diverdan]

dtw: I'm a big fan of 928s and currently own a few. Must agree that it has a wonderful solid and direct feel. 928s can go down the highway for miles with hands off, and then feel almost like manual steering going through the twisties. My old 4.2 Maserati had a pretty good electric unit, but though years newer was not quite up to the 928s feel. Still, for some reason the 911s without powersteering feel lighter and more direct particularly with the factory prescribed tire sizes. (BTW the earlier 928s seemed to have a lighter feel perhaps due to the smaller tires.) My 951 driver has the ps pump removed due to financial considerstions after a fuel hose fire. Takes pretty sturdy wrists, but I like the feel better w/o the ps....not recommended for weak wrists. Guess part of my rant is due to having had to pay upwards of $4.00 a gallon for gasoline and no income for a period of a over a year I saw my savings disappear. If I hadn't had to drag around 2500-3500 pounds of iron around, it would have been less of a disaster. 928s regretfully stayed in the garage and I drove a 4 cyl Saab in the winter and a 911 in the summer. Summer backup was a C280 that got 26 mpg on the highway. C280 is a great car, but a bit boring.

Dan