The importance of RVDP as standard equipment

[Winter]

Apologies if this has been posted/asked before.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NvnJr82oULk

[eastbay]

Thanks for posting, that's a good one.

[HaroldMHedge]

Great video.

Porsche from day one has had PSM - Personal Stability Management.

[GH85Carrera]

I dearly love driving my 85 911. It has a fantastic heater from the factory, and with the Griffith's Mr Ice project, it has fantastic AC. I can drive it on long road trips trips, yet it is a blast on a track, albeit slow compared to any of the modern Porsches. The new PDK and all the other gizmos make a new Porsche just point and steer, and just stand on the brakes and let the car figure it out. They are fun, but it is driving a computer not a visceral analog car.

A couple of years ago at Hallett Motorsports it had rained the night before. The sun was drying it out slowly with light overcast. On the back straight it comes to a very tight bus stop corner. I was flying down the straight and felt on front tire lock up on the damp track as the tight corner was coming up. Instinctively (after driving non ABS cars since the early 1960s) I lifted a little, and slowly added pressure, and slowed down enough to make the bus stop corner at the perfect speed and on up the next section. I remember coming into the pits after a 20 minute session and thinking how much fun that was.

I have driven my 911 to 41 states and Canada so far. It has had snow on it, and it has taken me through the California desert at 107 degrees and kept me comfortable, or on a zero degree day and stayed warm. I have been on 10 race tracks so far from Laguna Seca to Roebling Road.

It is closing in on 198,000 miles now after owning it for 32 years.


That last one is Talladega Super speedway. At one point we were going 125 MPH, the AC pumping ice cold air, and my wife was in the car. No effort at all. It was follow the leader so I could not go faster.