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I saw a women driving one the other day. The Cayenne, that is - the "abomination that causes desolation". This women wasn't hot looking, she wasn't even a soccer mom. Just a big cow driving the beast. I thought to myself, man, I wish I had a window sticker on the back of my 914 that would put down the Cayenne in some way. I hate those cars. Remember when all Porsches were stick, and that was enough to keep women out of them? That was when men were men, and women were women. Now, everything is screwed up. I know I am probably upsetting the women on this forum who drive 914s, but I don't mean to. Any girl willing to drive and put up with a 914 has erned the right to drive one. It is these other types I can't stand. That is the problem with Porsche - it is a company that is enscaunched in tradition. It attracts people who love tradition, and it also attracts people who have so much money that they screw up traditions. The 914 is more in line with the Porsche tradition than the Cayenne will ever be.
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QUOTE(thomasotten @ Jun 8 2004, 03:46 PM) ...I thought to myself, man, I wish I had a window sticker on the back of my 914 that would put down the Cayenne in some way. I hate those cars. Remember when all Porsches were stick, and that was enough to keep women out of them? That was when men were men, and women were women. Now, everything is screwed up. I know I am probably upsetting the women on this forum who drive 914s, but I don't mean to. Any girl willing to drive and put up with a 914 has erned the right to drive one. It is these other types I can't stand. That is the problem with Porsche - it is a company that is enscaunched in tradition. It attracts people who love tradition, and it also attracts people who have so much money that they screw up traditions. The 914 is more in line with the Porsche tradition than the Cayenne will ever be. Well I agree with your last statement, but let's put this Cayenne thing in a positive light. While I'm no fan of SUV's, the ONLY car company that did it right is Porsche. Their Turbo S circles a race track nearly as quickly as the 996. It's about the same as a Boxster S--a mid engined car BTW. Part of the Porsche tradition is brilliant engineering, and making a SUV handle like one of the top sports cars in the world is brilliant engineering. This is not a small SUV BTW, and challenge one to a freeway drag race with anything but our largest displacement 914-6's and you'll get "pepper sprayed". Porsche's are an expensive car, and that will attract those with money to buy them. This in turn helps support the company, and keeps it solvent. Regarding the stick thing, Hurley Heywood said he could get a student around a race track faster with the most recent Tiptronic in a 996 than with a stick. It's a darn fine "automatic". While I too prefer the sports car look with six on the floor, credit where credit is due. The Cayenne is a brilliantly engineered sports vehicle, and it will also perform it's off road duties most handily. |
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