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| Jake Raby |
 Oct 20 2004, 10:58 PM
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Engine Surgeon  Group: Members Posts: 9,394 Joined: 31-August 03 From: Lost Member No.: 1,095 Region Association: South East States  |
It just gets on my nerves when I see these new plastic cars trying to be sold with names from the old cars thatgot the car companies where they are today... All that while they won't support a damn thing that the Vintage guys care about..
VW was the first with the "Bug"... Then "Mini", etc, etc. None of these Retro cars have a damn thing in common with the "Root" vehicle that got the car the recognition anyway....Marketing bullshit 101! Hell, even the Carrera GT badge don't look right! |
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| ppickerell |
Oct 20 2004, 11:04 PM
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914 addicted Group: Members Posts: 1,679 Joined: 14-October 03 From: Pleasanton, CA. Member No.: 1,246 |
Plastic or no, it's hard for me not to see this car as a culmination of many decades of racing history. The styling is unbelievable, the technology state of the art. If it in fact is the platform to launch a racing program then so be it. You should see the carbon fiber in the undercarriage.
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| Carrera916 |
Oct 20 2004, 11:17 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 292 Joined: 9-February 03 From: Pleasanton, CA Member No.: 273 |
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Aaah, thank you, Jake! Now I feel better that someone else, other than just me is poking the name of "Carrera" being misused on other P models when it actually BELONGS to the 356! For those who dont know, it all started with the 550 at the Mexcio race and they won. So Porsche felt it was worth the reconization of their sucess by placing the Carrera name on the best of 356 that they have which I think is appropiate to start the marketing of their 4 cammers to the public. It drives me crazy when Porsche PR jerks kept confusing the public with the Carrera nameplate as it slips into the 911 terriorty. Even the Carrera 6 (aka 906) sounds really cool but it really misrepresent the history of the name itself that originated with the 550. Oh hell, they even fuck things up more when they say the Boxster looks like a 550....shit, it looks more like a RS60 to me than anything else.... BUT.....the car...CGT is awsome (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) ....the name??? I dunno.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) |
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| Jake Raby |
Oct 20 2004, 11:21 PM
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Engine Surgeon Group: Members Posts: 9,394 Joined: 31-August 03 From: Lost Member No.: 1,095 Region Association: South East States |
Exactly...
Like I said, the car in the link I posted earlier is a real "Carrera GT" BTW, it just sold two months ago for more than a new plastic version costs new and it was a 1959! But it did race at Lemans in 1960 :-) It got some MassIVe attention whikle here at the shop... It's Carrera GT badge isn't fake.. |
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| Carrera916 |
Oct 20 2004, 11:33 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 292 Joined: 9-February 03 From: Pleasanton, CA Member No.: 273 |
You know.....
it would be hellva fun project to slip the 2.0L 4-cammer from the 904 and stuff it in the -6 GT.... it may be a lousy car to drive on the street but hell, once you rip her out on the open road, you might want to carry a roll of toliet paper with you...... FAST mutha! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/MDB2.gif) |
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| Jake Raby |
Oct 21 2004, 12:27 AM
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Engine Surgeon Group: Members Posts: 9,394 Joined: 31-August 03 From: Lost Member No.: 1,095 Region Association: South East States |
It really would not like the gearing.... :-)
That 4 cammer has some tight ass gears! At 75MPH she turns 5000 RPM in 4th! Power didn't come on till 6,000 hard.... Every time I took it up that high I remembered that I had just spent 10,000.00 on a set of pistons, cylinders and rods for that mutha..... WHEEW! |
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| i love porsche |
Oct 21 2004, 06:29 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,547 Joined: 6-May 04 From: Nutley, NJ Member No.: 2,030 Region Association: North East States |
what i dont see...is if you hate the CGT for its name..you must hate all 911's from the 80s on..because they were deemed the Carrera. all these cars are an evolution,so of course theyre going to change...do you hate the fact that the 904 was called a Carrera GTS because it was plastic too? and it eventually had a flat 8 in it, for its latest form.
i say, if you have such a problem with the name carrera being used...just call it the 980 |
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| type47 |
Oct 21 2004, 09:39 AM
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Viermeister Group: Members Posts: 4,254 Joined: 7-August 03 From: Vienna, VA Member No.: 994 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
nice pix! yeah, i'm looking for a carerra GT engine to drop in my teener! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
..... after i sell my house and all by body parts for transplants...... Carerra GT to me is like Claudia Schiffer... unobtainium.... |
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| Root_Werks |
Oct 21 2004, 09:52 AM
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Village Idiot Group: Members Posts: 8,331 Joined: 25-May 04 From: About 5NM from Canada Member No.: 2,105 Region Association: Pacific Northwest 
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QUOTE(Jake Raby @ Oct 20 2004, 08:58 PM) VW was the first with the "Bug"... Then "Mini", etc, etc. None of these Retro cars have a damn thing in common with the "Root" vehicle that got the car the recognition anyway....Marketing bullshit 101! Root, hehe, hehe, you said Root. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif) |
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