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Originally Posted by DanielDudley

All fair comments. Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements is an acronym. Some like it, some don't. I'm not big fan of stanced cars either. But extreme stance actually inhibits the normal function of a suspension.

The impressive thing about this car for me would be that fact that it is a driver.
If you like that other stuff, God bless you. Very well done, yes.

Look, this was our hobby, and these cars were our aspiration and our pleasure. It was always about the cars and driving. For enthusiasts. Now, they are a branded icon, something that people with money are learning that they need to have in order to be cool. Not just people who love them, but people who love to be cool and flash.

Maybe some of us feel we are being branded out of our hobby. Paul Mustang sold his S, and some of us are feeling that a little bit now, what he felt. And the people driving like idiots on the road. That seems to fit in somehow, in an era when super fast cars are starting to drive themselves. Driving fast. No big deal, RIGHT ?

Let's all look the other way. Forget about branding, and marketing, the lack of respect for speed, and the death of our hobby. It is at least, the end of the beginning, when ordinary guys in their basements and garages did cool things with cars, and the respected mechanics and builders were the guys who grew up living and breathing this stuff.

It isn't all about Magnus, this thing that has people upset. It's the 800 pound Gorilla in the room that has people uneasy.

Guess one could say that I quickly grew weary and bored with that 800 pound Gorilla.
I had three decades with a very nice 1972 911S...the earlier decades were actually fun.

I can assure all here that life can be enjoyed without having an early 911. In some ways, enjoyed more than before.