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Old May 1, 2006 | 02:08 PM
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"What Makes a Porsche a Porsche" event

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Anyone know if there'll be any test drives?
Old May 1, 2006 | 02:49 PM
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There might be. Porsche isn't big on letting just anyone take out a car. You'd have to put down a pretty big deposit to take one out for a spin.

Plus they only real good models are yet to come out. For 2008 their bringing back the 959. And for any porsche or Rallye fans that was a AWD twin turbo 3.6Litre flat 6, 800hp is what the original made.... supposively. Anyways, the reason for them commin out with a new one is becaus the Carrera GT was a major flop. Not enough were sold, and to tell you the truth, the car never lived up to was it was supposed to be able to do. But if the whole 959 work out next year, it's gonna probably take the title for fastest production car on earth.... bye bye McLaren F1.

If a big porsche fan.... the whole family is.... we have 3 at the house. But the whole "new" Supercar era is really starting to get annoying. For 10 or so years, no one could touch porsche. The owned LeMans', Rallye, Grand Prix, basically any major auto even except nascar. And porsche has the technology to make the Carrera GT go 240MPH and beyond.... but their catering to the plush, rich, overweight white european and american man instead of getting pissed and damming everything, and going for 250MPH and beyond. If you ask me they need to look back to move foward.

Just my two cents.
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haha, that was more like 5 or 10 cents.

I never knew about a new 959... maybe my favorite Porsche. Any pictures or anything up on the web?
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google it

it's a sick lookin car....
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the scoops on eaither side were for the intake filters ont he turbos...
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Yeah i thought you said there was a NEW one
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Originally Posted by UgLiEz
There might be. Porsche isn't big on letting just anyone take out a car. You'd have to put down a pretty big deposit to take one out for a spin.

Plus they only real good models are yet to come out. For 2008 their bringing back the 959. And for any porsche or Rallye fans that was a AWD twin turbo 3.6Litre flat 6, 800hp is what the original made.... supposively. Anyways, the reason for them commin out with a new one is becaus the Carrera GT was a major flop. Not enough were sold, and to tell you the truth, the car never lived up to was it was supposed to be able to do. But if the whole 959 work out next year, it's gonna probably take the title for fastest production car on earth.... bye bye McLaren F1.

If a big porsche fan.... the whole family is.... we have 3 at the house. But the whole "new" Supercar era is really starting to get annoying. For 10 or so years, no one could touch porsche. The owned LeMans', Rallye, Grand Prix, basically any major auto even except nascar. And porsche has the technology to make the Carrera GT go 240MPH and beyond.... but their catering to the plush, rich, overweight white european and american man instead of getting pissed and damming everything, and going for 250MPH and beyond. If you ask me they need to look back to move foward.

Just my two cents.
I got to take a cayman out with no credit check or deposit @ a dealer

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really?
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Originally Posted by smokey25
Yeah i thought you said there was a NEW one
there are plans for one in 2008.....
Old May 1, 2006 | 03:45 PM
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really?
yea but I drove an S600 to the dealer and was wearing a suit lol
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yea but I drove an S600 to the dealer and was wearing a suit lol
He probably thought u were going to blow up the dealership if you didn't so that's the real reason. SIA...
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He probably thought u were going to blow up the dealership if you didn't so that's the real reason. SIA...
whatever gets me the test drive

maybe i'll try a ferrari dealership next time in that case
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the scoops on eaither side were for the intake filters ont he turbos...

best car in forza by far is setup right.
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