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| Unobtanium-inc |
 Oct 31 2025, 01:49 PM
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Advanced Member  Group: Members Posts: 2,371 Joined: 29-November 06 From: New York Member No.: 7,276 Region Association: None 
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People from other car marques ask me both why Porsche for me, but also for so many others. Why Porsche? Because unlike many vintage car marques, Porsche is still racing and still winning. There is a reason they have won Le Mans more time than anyone else, they were built to race from the beginning, and they've never stopped! IMSA 2025 Champions, a trifecta. Porsche Penske Motorsport has taken all three 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship titles: Drivers’, Teams’, and Manufacturers’. Raceborn indeed!
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| Osnabruck914 |
Oct 31 2025, 02:06 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 176 Joined: 19-December 22 From: United States Member No.: 27,038 Region Association: South East States |
We all have our reasons. Mine, is the post-war history. How the company rose from the ashes of WW2; the humble rebirth at the sawmill in Austria; the return to Stuttgart/Zuffenhausen. Love that stuff, knowing it's part of the DNA of my car.
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| DennisV |
Oct 31 2025, 05:39 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 760 Joined: 8-August 20 From: Santa Rosa, CA Member No.: 24,575 Region Association: Northern California
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The answer is pretty straightforward for me. They build real sports cars that are also reliable and practical enough to be used every day. My 911 hasn't been a weekend car. It's my daily driver.
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| wonkipop |
Oct 31 2025, 06:00 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,191 Joined: 6-May 20 From: north antarctica Member No.: 24,231 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille
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64 beetle (78-82) -----> 72 type 3 variant (83-95) ---------->74 914 1.8 (89-?).
all volkswagen built, all porsche designed and engineered, all air cooled. 47 years combined behind the wheel of these things. why? short answer is i like them. ever since i sat in the drivers seat of that beetle. |
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| windforfun |
Oct 31 2025, 06:04 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,066 Joined: 17-December 07 From: Blackhawk, CA Member No.: 8,476 Region Association: None
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They're in a defining class. State of the art for the $$$. They just need a more cost effective business model from what I hear.
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| bkrantz |
Oct 31 2025, 07:42 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,526 Joined: 3-August 19 From: SW Colorado Member No.: 23,343 Region Association: Rocky Mountains
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For me, it's the car design. Over decades Porsche produced cars with few compromises and shortcuts, and with unique and, again, purposeful design. The cars also demanded something of the owner-driver (or at least used to).
An example: our 914s came with owner's manuals that described how to adjust the valves. How many other cars, then or especially now, have something like that? |
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