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is that a trailer hicth in pic 3

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That's a lot of money for a lot of ugly.

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Will Porsche be making a $80,000 boat trailer too? Nothing says sports car like SUVs and sedans...

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hmmm.... Recipe for failure:

Mix 1 part 996 with 1 part 928

Toss in four doors from a Pontiac Grand-Am

Mix well and overprice!

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Excuse me....


LLLLOOOOLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOLLLLLLL

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xD

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But I already have a toilet to flush my money down.

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This is either a practical joke or a bad dream. Either way, asserting this is a $200k car is laughable indeed.

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Dunno what makes me LOL more, the fact that it'll be 127k in Europe, where cars are a hell of a lot more expensive due to taxation, or the fact that you think European prices reflect what we'll see in America.

Either way, LOLOLOLOLOL.

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Those weren't failures. Maybe not as popular as 911, but they weren't failures.

130k for a sedan that looks like that... yeah... might be a failure.

But then, I thought Cayenne would be a failure, too.

Sorry, but there are sedans far less expensive than $127K that would be just fine to drive, while being also able to buy a Cayman S to have fun with. Maybe even a V8 M3 4-door.

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The 944 and 968 weren't failures, you've clearly never driven one if you think that. They're pretty awesome cars, actually. Get more attention in the 944 than I do in a Boxster, so there ya go. That point aside, I'm hoping this is inaccurate possibly due to european or something currency conversion. They don't list their source at edmunds, and if it is from europe, cars are a lot more expensive to buy and own over there, so this might be accurate if you ran a straight currency conversion. If it is accurate? That's absurd. More than a 911 turbo to get in, with a V6? give me a break. I just don't see how this can be true though. That's simply too expensive, even for Porsche.

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Thanks MK. The 944, 928 and 968 were very good cars, as their long production attest to. It was unfortunate that Porsche-philes were so pigheadedly singular in their vision that they thought it could only be a Porsche if the engine was in the rear. Of course, now we heave the Cayman to be thankful for.

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Just because a car is a good car doesn't meant it wasn't a failure. The 944 sold okay perhaps, but it's pretty clear that the 968 never produced the breakout level of sales Porsche intended it to. It was to be their coming out party. The name (and tail) were intended to evoke the 928 (American Gigolo!) and between those things and the price, it was going to make Porsche a big player in the market. And it didn't.

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@LS7...

The 928 was produced from the 70s through the 90s.

The 944 and 944 Turbo solved some of the qualms about the decent but underwhelming 924. The 944 Turbo was one of the faster cars of the late 80s, especially when tuned. NOW they are tuned to well over 400 horsepower.

The 968 was the logical evolution of the 944 S2, but enough of the bodywork changed, and it got Variocam, one of the first production variable valve timing systems, so they gave it it's engineering number, rather than calling it the 944 S3. It had the largest, and torquiest inline 4 cylinder engines (naturally aspirated) to this day. The Turbo S, albeit only about 6 street models produced, and none imported, was faster and better handling than the 911 turbos.

The 968 was cancelled due to the 90's SUV-rich environment that also killed the RX7, Supra, 300Zx, SVX, and most other imported coupes, before even the Camaro and Firebird, Thunderbird, and other domestic coupes staggered to their demise, as well. Camaro is only NOW recovering, and very few coupes, like Mustang and Corvette survived.

It was also phased out during the time that Porsche was bringing the Boxster 986 from concept to production, a year after the last 968, and Porsche was getting lean and mean in the 90s, to bring out the water cooled boxers in 986 and 996, phasing out front engined water-coolers, the 928 and 924/44/68 line, which were designed in the 70s.

Just because it didn't set sales records, doesn't mean it was a failure. It did sell, and owners of those cars are VERY happy with them.

They preceded rear transaxle Corvettes by a significant amount of time, and the Weissach suspension that the 928 introduced taught a lot of people lessons about rear suspension geometry, and passive geometric steering under body roll.

Learn a little about the subject before panning a whole line of very nice cars that influenced auto design across the industry. Even Corvette probably owes 928 some props for competitive motivation to refine the Corvette systems, and to employ a rear transaxle with a front engine.

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Everyone. I think Huge G was just kidding.

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"Let's hope this is about as accurate as the GT-R leaked time on the Top Gear test track."

You mean 1.3% off of the actual value?

LOL.

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