WE HAVE BEEN INSULTED!, On Youtube! Options

[ClayPerrine]

Watch, and prepare to be angry! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

You don't even have to watch the whole thing. Just the first segment on the 70s.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_CmDK5m8yc


Please make your comments known in this alleged car expert's video channel.

[DRPHIL914]

She described the subject's 914 as a "... glorified VW in Porsche clothing...."

A pretty hefty insult allowed by the editorial staff at Pano.

i believe she drives around in a porsche SUV.

what is a cayenne?

a glorified audi Q8?

what is an audi Q8?

a glorified VW toureg?

who built the platform model as the basis of all present day VW group (empire?) manufacturing.

f. piech.

what was his first road car project?

the 914?

lyn whatever is fairly typical of journalists. stuck in their present with no history and even less sense of the future - just jabbering cliches. the world is full of them covering every subject from military conflicts to dishwashers.

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every time i hear or read a comment like that i think about all the parts of modern Porsche not made by porsche or made in Germany or US, and not even assembled in the main facilities in Germany, including the Boxsters in Finland , and we could go on and on on how stupid that is. Really it should have been caught by editor, but if this it now the standard at PANO , and their just employing Hack-for-hire journalists , yep im ready to cancel mine as well, but they need to know its not just a small slight and you are talking about a car that basically saved that company from extinction!, sold 118,000 cars. i guess if he reads these comments and if more current members that are now buying and paying $100k for a 914 say something maybe we see an editor note in the next months magazine and just maybe she's done writing for PANO.

[bbrock]

every time i hear or read a comment like that i think about all the parts of modern Porsche not made by porsche or made in Germany or US, and not even assembled in the main facilities in Germany, including the Boxsters in Finland , and we could go on and on on how stupid that is. Really it should have been caught by editor, but if this it now the standard at PANO , and their just employing Hack-for-hire journalists , yep im ready to cancel mine as well, but they need to know its not just a small slight and you are talking about a car that basically saved that company from extinction!, sold 118,000 cars. i guess if he reads these comments and if more current members that are now buying and paying $100k for a 914 say something maybe we see an editor note in the next months magazine and just maybe she's done writing for PANO.

I think an article that walks through just how much VW or Porsche is in a 914/4 would be quite interesting. We already know that 100% of the design was Porsche, including the Type IV engine. That is even before Hans Mezger tweaked it for the 2.0L. VWs design contributions were to cut costs and cheapen the car like use rear drum brakes instead of disc which Porsche vetoed.

The parts count would be quite interesting. Mostly it is just switches, light fixtures, and seat belts outside the Porsche-designed VW engine. Even the instrument cluster and ventilation controls are Porsche. I don't know how you categorize brakes and steering rack which have VW part numbers but are from the same OEM with identical design and function to Porsche counterparts. And IIRC, there are a couple VW parts that were shared with the 356. Once you cataloged all the parts that are shared with other Porsche models along with parts unique to the 914 with 914.xxx part numbers, I doubt you'd have even 20% VW content. Nothing against VW parts at all, but the fact is that I don't think the 914 borrowed from the VW parts bin nearly as much as the media has led people to believe from the time the model was first introduced.

Better yet, somebody should pull all the VW parts out of a 914/4 and weigh them. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)