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thomasotten |
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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.
Just had to vent. |
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MattR |
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I think its totally wrong for us to criticize what other people drive under any condition. Everyone buys a car to suit a purpose. Why can we say some does or doesnt need the room? I heard an enviro-tree hugger freak on the radio telling people to not buy SUVs because we dont need them and all that crap. How does this guy know what soccer mom's need? Is he a soccer mom? no. Catagorizing people and their uses for cars is wrong.
Now the safety issue is something to be taken more seriously, I think, because that affects others. But I would rather get in a collision with an SUV mom doing the speed limit then a 55 chevy hot rod doing twice the speed limit... kinetic energy = mass x velocity squared. Just remember that. I rarely see soccer mom's speeding. And I think the 914 has a solid integrated roll bar, so I dont get how bumper height matters? The SUV would literally have to drive over the 914 from the front to get to the cockpit. Is my thinking off here? Lastly, SUV's are covered trucks IMO. And trucks are one of the things that made this country flourish in the 40s and 50s. Im not going to give some lame patriotic rant here, but this is America, the land of the free. |
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