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Originally Posted by Ghostrider 310
Sorry I call BS on Porsche 986 being the end of Porsche sports cars, my car is everything you described including lacking in cup holders. Simply stated it would tear the door skins right off my 986 as it passed and left it for dead.
PS You can't drive the piss out of it or you would never be below triple digits
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I do have to retract my statement to a point, Ghost, because I agree with you and simply overlooked the Spyder in my thought process. Fully agree with you that that is, indeed, a pretty much bare bones, no frills sports car (even if it does have the 987 styling), and even gets back down close to the weight of the early 986, and that's what I like about it. Definitely not a year-round, non-sunny day car, unfortunately, but that's about the only gig against it besides it not looking like a 986
. Low production numbers, fairly high price, and therefore, some exclusivity. That said, the Boxster Spyder is the exception rather than the rule these days at Porsche, and I don't think that's right. They could have also made something like that back when the 986 came around, but oh no, can't unseat the flagship.
Cars like that, or the Cayman R, are the kinds of things the company did normally to make a name and distinction for the brand. I'm not as old as some folks who got to be behind the wheel when SCs and Targas made their debuts...my car drooling days started in the mid-80s and went onward (959 anyone
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Maybe Panamera and Cayenne sales allow us to have things like that without astronomical pricetags, but it's really hurting the company's image for me, and if only offering legit sports cars means no Porsche will cost less than 6 figures, then so be it, I have to start figuring out a way to save for one that I want over a period of
X years. Exclusivity, something that people know you paid for because it does something you want, like just be a damn fast and good handling car.
To your second point, isn't that what racetracks are for? And aren't those what sports cars, exotics, and supercars were meant to drive on at their upper limits? You don't put 200mph on a speedometer if the car can never really get anywhere near there. And to be clear, I wasn't saying drive it that way 24/7, but I don't see the guys with Carrera GTs sticking a GoPro on their windshield and putting a video of them flying around VIR on YouTube ever summer. I would if I had one. I want my money's worth.
