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Originally Posted by Rick V
People who don't know these cars are always bringing this up. A well tuned civic can cut one of these cars in half and hand you change. I try to explain that it isn't about simple speed off the line, it is a total package and what will the civic be in thirty years?
I usually just end up shaking my head and ending the conversation with I just like my Porsches.
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That's not my point exactly. I know these cars fairly well... My minivan point was about early Ts vs S. Back in the day, the S was the "top dog". Nowadays, a minivan will beat them *all* off the line, T/E/S, even a 2.7RS I guess, so pure performance it not the thing anymore, it's about the feel and fun of actually "driving" an older car with "power-nothing". So given the crazy prices on S models, people should not pass on Ts. Not only are they less peaky, when the time comes it's really not that much more expensive to rebuild them with S specs if that's your thing...
I'd extend the point to 912s. A nicely setup SWB 912 with a big bore kit (most have one by now) is a really fun car, twitchy but with less weight in the back than its 911 sister so fun-twitchy, not crap-your-pants-twitchy ;-) Go get them while you can. Couldn't agree more with LakeCleElum's point. 3 steps fwd and one back. Maybe 1/2 a step back this time, there are still no good alternative investments. And gas is cheap lately !!