RE: Porsche 928 S4: PH Carpool
Discussion
I ran one of these as my daily driver for 8 & 1/2 years. As the OP says, you must keep on top of the maintenance side of things on a 928. A neglected one of these would be a truly frightening proposition. They can be "quite interesting" in the snow and ice, so using it as a daily in a snowy UK winter is either being brave or foolhardy. It cost me a replacement rear alloy one winter..for a slow slide out of control that kicked off while tip-toeing along at about 15 MPH...
It was the difficulty of sourcing obscure spares for mine as the car aged that eventually drove me to sell. Being self-employed I couldn't keep living with infrequent but random "VOR" outages while my specialist diagnosed the problem & then sourced the required part(s).
Great cars and definitely collectible in the longer run. Meantime & until my euro-lottery win finally funds my new country estate and the 10 car garage, I can recommend the recent Jaguar XK (XK150 model) as a very good 928 S4 substitute. Please note: I make no claim the XK is superior, having run both models, but it is the most usable a fairly close modern-day replacement - that I've found so far, anyway.
It was the difficulty of sourcing obscure spares for mine as the car aged that eventually drove me to sell. Being self-employed I couldn't keep living with infrequent but random "VOR" outages while my specialist diagnosed the problem & then sourced the required part(s).
Great cars and definitely collectible in the longer run. Meantime & until my euro-lottery win finally funds my new country estate and the 10 car garage, I can recommend the recent Jaguar XK (XK150 model) as a very good 928 S4 substitute. Please note: I make no claim the XK is superior, having run both models, but it is the most usable a fairly close modern-day replacement - that I've found so far, anyway.
Bencolem said:
So is Carpool now officially a car sales service?
No, but what's your problem with that anyway?I've had 2 Carpool features that handily went to print shortly before I sold the cars.
We're petrolheads. Some of us move cars on quickly when we get the itch.
If Dan and the team believe the feature is well written and of interest, they will use it, regardless of whether the car is being sold or not.
Nice article Trev. That's 2 928 Car Pools in a 18 months now with my feature in early 2014!
The 928 may be one of the few cars of the past... that could be reissued today with little change to the exterior design.
Example:
We all wanted something slender and feline like the E-Type. The F-Type certainly borrows from this, and moves the design language forward. However, the F-Type could never be as drop-dead gorgeous.
Safety requirements, mostly. But also all of the "content" that folks want in their cars nowadays. Mod cons, gizmos, etc. Thus, the F-Type is not merely larger and with a higher belt-line, but also a bit bulbous in some of its proportions.
The 928, however, was designed with a higher belt-line as well as some bulbous bits from the beginning. Are these sufficient to allow for today's more strict requirements in terms of side impact, rollover, etc.? Possibly.
The pop-up headlights on the 928 might need a rethink vis a vis today's standards for pedestrian impact safety. Could be a fun challenge: how to honour the "flounder" face of the original car, but in today's world.
If the required engineering is possible, a contemporary design interpretation of the 928 would not necessarily be too different from the original.
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