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Personally, I would not own a car that "looks" more powerful than it is, so for me, the drive-train comes first. Butt that said, and along the lines of the $ reference you made above, when I was a late teen/early twenties back in the 80s, "more pow'a" was out of the question as I have never been in a position to pay others to work on my car (wouldn't pay for it if I could, as working on them is part of the "pride in ownership" for me), and did not yet have the knowledge and experience necessary to build power or maintain a powerful machine, so I settled for fast looking back then. So with that in mind, you do make a good point.
I guess it also primarily boils down to personsl preference, as many members don't give a flip about engine power, and think originality is more important (something I don't give two ****s about - not even one ****, in fact).
On the 912 subject; I sling a lot more shat about them than I actually believe (mainly just to yank Christian's chain). I respect the 912 for what it is and it certainly is not a machine which poses as something it is not.
Now with all that nonsense barfed forth, it sure is nice that not everyone has the same tastes in machines - would be much more difficult to fling feces if that were the case!
