Porsche..

There is no number up top because I like ALL Porsche cars. What is there not to like?

You want well built and fast? Buy a Porsche. You want a car that will be as good in 30 years as it is today? Buy a Porsche. You want class? Buy a Porsche.

This is a 356, the first Porsche if you don’t include tractors and Tiger Tanks. They are easy to make. You scale up a standard German jelly mold, cut a space out for entry by driver and passenger, use the basics of the engine made for VW Beetles, apply good quality go faster parts to it, add four wheels, and hey presto, you have a light, nimble two seater sports car which will become an icon.

You then make a fastback type, and eventually scale it up again and you have a 911..

This is a new 911, but the marque has hardly changed in shape, but under the skin. Porsche cars just got better and better, aided and abetted by the best Boxer 6 cylinder engine ever.

Porsche cars didn’t change much because they didn’t have to change. The original 356 was a winner and Porsches have been winning ever since.

This is a Porsche 917, and it didn’t understand the concept of coming in second unless there was another 917 in front of it. Porsche cars are like that. None of them understand second place.

Porsche also make others, front engined even, like the 924/944 and 928’s of the past. See here..

This is the 944..

.. and this is the 928..

If you want see the latest, take a look here..

http://www.porsche.com/canada/en/

What you see is a frightening show of German motoring class. Like Mercedes and BMW, everything is carefully planned and crafted, not shot from parts guns loosely aimed at the middle of the factory floor. Every process in the manufacture of these cars is first class, and Porsche is the ‘sports’ section of the German auto industry. Even the Cayenne is a sports model, and about the only Porsche where I could still get in and out, being the old crock that I am these days.

The only setback to owning a Porsche is the cost of buying and maintaining it. Having said that, it is a more affordable supercar than a Ferrari or Bugatti, and a far more sensible daily drive than all of the other wedge shaped, often ugly, competition.

Porsche is the only marque that didn’t lose sight of its original target.

I was given the opportunity to ride shotgun in an aging 944 one time. I am sure that I should have said ‘V1’ at some point but I couldn’t speak. It would be something to go into a Porsche dealer and sit in a new one, but you know how it is, if you break something, you have to buy it. Not on what I get per annum..