Fascination With Air-Cooled Porsches

[BoxMann]

Originally Posted by mikefocke

I figure it is the toys of our youth that we didn't have then that we now can have. Plus the idea of "classic".

Mike,

I'm not even talking about the classics from the 60's and 70's. I'm looking at the 993 vs the 996. Noticeable price drop in the 996, even though it's a lot newer.

[Qingdao]

Originally Posted by BoxMann

Mike,

I'm not even talking about the classics from the 60's and 70's. I'm looking at the 993 vs the 996. Noticeable price drop in the 996, even though it's a lot newer.

I don't here of as many 993 engine failures relative to 996...

In Porsche's defense they had just started messing around with liquid cooling on a boxer engine for a production car.

For the life of me I cannot understand why they went from a journal bearing to a sealed bearing for the IMS? Like what was the benefit?


But all that engine stuff aside. The air cooled models, if nothing else, look a hell of a lot better IMPO.


Also, I think its already been said I think they made more liquid cooled cars so supply and demand.

[986 Boxster]

Some of it has to do with what mikefocke said, " toys of our youth that we didn't have then that we now can have". The 993 is the one Porsche purist real want as the last air-cooled Porsche. For me it`s the 930 turbo, and I would love to have one someday. It was the very first Porsche that I drove as a teenager working at a garage as a summer student. Would I buy one if I had the money? Probably not, I would probably get something newer with more power and better handling.