Why are they so fucking expensive? Is being the last air cooled car really that big of a deal?
Why are they so fucking expensive? Is being the last air cooled car really that big of a deal?
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butt ugly mcdonalds toy car
people love to spend just because its old and therefore unique and great car taste
its just as npc who people who pay out the ass just so they can have something new
Nope looks better than the runny egg yolks and everything after
I wonder what you own but we'll never find out
>sour grapes btw
>butt ugly mcdonalds toy car
Unfathomably based and red pilled take.
It’s that twat strut guy again……
The 993 was the first to get multi-link rear suspension I believe, and the 996, while lighter and more powerful, suffered from a lot of cost-cutting that resulted in the M96 engines being ticking time bombs.
I thought boomers hated 993s almost as much as 996s
Why would boomers hate the final evolution of the original 911 chassis?
The turbo was AWD only, boomers hate that.
>The turbo was AWD only, boomers hate that.
No they don't. AWD was considered superior when overall speed is the objective. Oversteering and drifting at the cost of speed in the name of "fun" is completely an Xer invention.
Because it isn't a classic 911. Anything after the 930 is yikes tier as the young people would say.
slant noses are the only cool porsches
air cooling is gay and dumb
>t. engineer
it didn't even work
>so many of those cars caught fire just sitting in traffic
dust build up with a light misting of petrol leaks, + an entrée of Magnesium engine block
needs bigger oil cooler
Air cooling is gay because you can't milk the shit out of your employer engineering over complicated bullshit
>water pump + heat exchanger + fan + coolant
oh my gosh, so complicated
oof, so complicated
like how does everyone even
shit's like rocket science and shit
damn
u forgot the thermostat + the fan clutch / solenoid
oh noes so complicated omg such cutting edge tech
Every additional part is another potential point of failure
air/oil cooling system =! fewer parts
You forgot pathways for all of it plus
do you have any idea how many water pumps I've replaced?
>water pump fails
oh noes something that gets replaced as a maintenance item when the belts are done get the fainting couch
>oil pump fails
OH FUCK
Are you implying that old air cooled Porsche motors are low maintenance?
>milk the shit out of your employer engineering over complicated bullshit
surely one could find a way to waste a lot of computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis computing time making up new shapes of fan blade ?
>t. Engineer
Okay rajesh, no one asked and no one cares. Having a piece of paper becuase you were able to memorise some formulas doesn't mean you know anything about engine design.
This.
You have your average 98% engineer which is more like some sort of draftsman or inspector just ticking boxes and making sure everything is in compliance in the design they were shown. They may suggest adjustments to the design so it fits into the paperwork. Think of them as a 'tard handler holding onto the architects leash
Then you have the knowledgeable 1.9% of Engineers who set the standards.
THEN you have the 0.1% madlads who don't fullt understand what they are doing, yet, because they are doing something no one has ever done before. They are operating on a theory and are trailblazing. This is an actual engineer.
neither of you know anything about engineering
Beta Simps with too much money
That's a really pretty car. How much does it cost? I have $200k doing nothing in cash right now
You can take a 993 turbo home for about 200k.
It’s a good car for sure, if you can reasonably afford one. Depends on what you want out of a car, though. Something like a 930 is much more raw, while a 964 or a 993 is more civilized, but still a turbo 911.
Also depends on if you are looking to modify it or keep it stock.
god fucking damn I might buy this car
ironically you're the exact type of person making these cars so expensive, to answer OP's question
aka, "i've got a lot of money, is this what the cool guys are buying now?? this is a good investment, right?? somebody tell me what to do"
>993 turbo for 200k
fuckers arent even as fast as a base 'poverty' model 997
Yeah and those $10M classic Ferraris aren't even as fast as V6 Camry's - fucking rip off from pipe hitting dealers
>a 911 is a 250 california
>a collectible classic shouldn't be worth more than a more numerous modern counterpart
1990s 911s are pretty numerous
This
>a middling sports car produced from the 1960s to the 1990s is the same as a Lemans protoype race car
>Is being the last air cooled car really that big of a deal
For some people, yes. Why, I'm not sure. The air cooled ones are rarer, so I guess that's mostly it.
It's also the styling
just buy the kitcar with another engine in it and you will happy
Porsches are great because I have no real interest in them
I like it when people are into things I'm basically indifferent to but still find cool (to some extent)
Holy shit it looks so fucking cool, I would not even drive it, you can't even see how cool it looks while driving it, yes it's a toy car.
>mfw it's yet another episode of "LULZ tries to figure out the economics of supply and demand"
Get learnt in one and a half minutes ( you don't need to watch the second half)
The 993 Turbo wasn't even air cooled
it's as air-cooled as any other pre-996 911 (more accurately, oil-cooled) (and ignoring the 959)
No, it has water cooled heads
A real question is why is the 964 so expensive. It was one of the most hated models, like the 996. They were about 20k and now they're about 120, for a carrera 2. It's like people that never knew that wanted to have a "classic 911" and it's all they could afford. Then apparently Stinger has a stock pile of over 100 of them sitting in Utah.
that's kinda the story on air-cooleds in general. outside of a few halo models, a huge percentage of car guys had little to no interest in them. "glorified vw beetle," "engine's in the wrong place," etc. suddenly around 2012 they all decided in unison they had to have one