This torques my shorts

[Ofishbein]

I read once that Walter Rohrer was asked what it was like to drive the Carrera GT and his reply was: "try to imagine a Boxster with 600 hp". That's good enough for me.

[Gary in BR]

I have been known to be a little of a smarty at times, when I would here the its not a real porsche comment I would always look around real fast like they should not say that out loud then I would tell them, " Its not?!? You better go tell those guys at the Porsche dealership!"

[richv]

Ignore them they are ignorant. By the way my brother in law has a Corvette Z-6 and likes my 2004 Boxster, particularly the tiptronic.

[VTCMart]

Probably the same snobbish attitude that would say a Dino is not a real Ferrari. And most people who say that are driving a Corolla or some similar appliance/utilitarian vehicle, so screw 'em.

[insite]

i have a friend who always insisted the boxster was not a 'real' porsche; he laughed when i told him i was buying one. he came into town last year and i gave him the pleasure of a 'spirited' check ride (side note: i have some race track experience). after about 20min, we had to pull over so he could literally vomit. he now owns a boxster.

[dcporsche99]

....haven't had someone say that to me in person yet.

If I were to hear that, I would just remind myself that at the end of the day, everytime I drive my PORSCHAAA... I get an instant permagrin that has only comes with driving this car!!

[humara]

Originally Posted by VTCMart

would say a Dino is not a real Ferrari.

nobody would say that.

[Ofishbein]

Originally Posted by humara

nobody would say that.

Actually, I also had a '72 Dino in the '08s and people DID say that it wasn't a real Ferrari.

[Lil bastard]

In the case of the Dino, they're not necessarily far off.

The "Dino" brand was created to market a lower priced, "affordable" sports car. Enzo Ferrari did not want to diminish the Ferrari brand with a cheaper, smaller engined car, and so "Dino" was created specifically to separate the brands. It had no Prancing Horse or Scuderia badging.

Nobody would say that? Well, Ferrari actually did!

In the first brochure for the 206GT they described the Dino as "almost a Ferrari". Can you believe that?

Originally Posted by Ofishbein

Actually, I also had a '72 Dino in the '08s and people DID say that it wasn't a real Ferrari.

Then they were horribly misinformed. Remember in this era, sports cars were early 911, Fiat 124, MG. I'm sure these numbers are good against the 911 of the same year. saw one of the Fiat Dino's at Barett Jackson, I think it went for over 100, not a bad score. Saw the unit once at my fathers dealership awesome body style, I' love one. Certainly a respectable performer, not all Dinos were Fiats either, many were full blooded Ferrari.


From the web

The FIAT Dino motor had its genesis in the 1967 1.6-litre Formula 2 racing regulations. Ferrari's Dino V-six engine dating from the mid-1950s was ideal for the job, but the rules stipulated a 500-off, production-based block, homologation rules. As Ferrari at the time was building only 700 cars a year, this would mean virtually doubling production in just one year, and the company simply had to look to outside help. Enter the Fiat Dino, powered by a production version of Ferrari's quad-cam V-six, as an all-alloy two-liter. This allowed Ferrari to qualify its engine for F2 racing. The original quad-cam, all-alloy, 65-degree V6 found in the 2.0-litre models can trace its history back to the 1950s. The superb V6, four-cam, two-liter engine that powers the FIAT Dino lineage can be traced back to the Dino 166P sports-racing unit. While credit for the design of the V6 motor is often given to Enzo Ferrari's son, Dino, this is probably stretching the truth a bit. The younger Ferrari was indeed an engineer and possibly proposed the idea of making the V6, but it was more likely the legendary engine designer Vittorio Jano who was responsible for the actual design, but it was turned into a viable production road-car engine by Aurelio Lampredi, a one-time Ferrari employee.

The Fiat Dino 2.0 used a five-speed Fiat transmission to send power back to a live axle with a Watts-link-like leaf spring suspension. A coil spring and wishbone suspension was used up front. The result was a 130-mph car that would do 0-60 mph in around 8.8 seconds, very reasonable performance for the era.

The Fiat Dino was built as an elegant, curvaceous spider by Pininfarina. The spider is one of the prettiest designs to emerge from Pininfarina's studio in the 1960s ( I might be biased here but not the only biased person around ).

[ChrisZang]

Rolling on the floor laughing

I loooooove your response.
BTW: The only people who ever diss my car do NOT own a Porschaaaaa.
So my standard response is usually: Oh, which model Porsche are you driving?

That shuts them up (or gets them even madder)

Oh, yes and of course there are the Carrera drivers who initially wave back when I greet them on the road and then withdraw their hands in shame when they figure out that they accidentally waved at a Boxster NOT at a Carrera cabrio with the top down

Originally Posted by Gary in BR

I have been known to be a little of a smarty at times, when I would here the its not a real porsche comment I would always look around real fast like they should not say that out loud then I would tell them, " Its not?!? You better go tell those guys at the Porsche dealership!"

[FTD]

People that say stuff like that are just insecure and finding a way to be mean. They are not worth a response. Or maybe ask them what they were hoping to accomplish by saying what they said. I had a boyfriend that referred to my Boxster as a poor man's Porsche. "Why did you say that? Now I will always remember your remark, and I don't know what you hoped to accomplish by making it." It makes no sense - no more than not a real Porsche. Its a reflection on the idiot that spoke the words, and not worth indulging a conversation with someone so pathetic.

[dcporsche99]

"...I had a boyfriend that referred to my Boxster as a poor man's Porsche...."


I guess he learned his lesson??

[FTD]

Originally Posted by dcporsche99

"...I had a boyfriend that referred to my Boxster as a poor man's Porsche...."


I guess he learned his lesson??

cute! Yeah, what a pill.

[ChrisZang]

100% agreed, but quick correction, the correct spelling of his name is Walter Röhrl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_R%C3%B6hrl

Originally Posted by Ofishbein

I read once that Walter Rohrer was asked what it was like to drive the Carrera GT and his reply was: "try to imagine a Boxster with 600 hp". That's good enough for me.