RE: Porsche 928: Catch it while you can

[Chris944]

Porsches and long-distance driving really float my boat:

- 944 Turbo to Vienna in a day, and back.
- 944 Turbo to Berlin in a day and back a few days later
- Boxster S to Vienna in a day, and back a few days later
-plus trips to Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Hamburg and more.

just love it. 100mph well plus and comfortable seats, fine roads, great, great cars.

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basa said:

PomBstard said:

Rode past my local front-engined Porsche specialist only two days ago - haven't been past in a while - and there was what seemed to be an unusually high proportion of 928s around there. Often I'll see 3-4 944s, a brace or so of 968s and one or 2 928s. This time of the 7-8 cars there, all but 2 were 928s. And they do look good, even in white...

Could you tell us who this front engine specialist is? I'm looking for one for my '91 S4. It's still parked in Madrid , but soon will come over to Bucks.

It's a closer to Madrid than Bucks!

http://www.buchananautomotive.com.au

[PomBstard]

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basa said:

PomBstard said:

Rode past my local front-engined Porsche specialist only two days ago - haven't been past in a while - and there was what seemed to be an unusually high proportion of 928s around there. Often I'll see 3-4 944s, a brace or so of 968s and one or 2 928s. This time of the 7-8 cars there, all but 2 were 928s. And they do look good, even in white...

Could you tell us who this front engine specialist is? I'm looking for one for my '91 S4. It's still parked in Madrid , but soon will come over to Bucks.

It's a closer to Madrid than Bucks!

http://www.buchananautomotive.com.au

Rode past again today...



Inside were 2 928s and a 944T. Outside, in the photo, are 3 928s and a 968CS, and across the road is another 944.

Probably not exactly on the doorstep of Bucks...

Here

But if you want to send your 928 over, I'll make sure it gets properly looked after...

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If it wasn't for the 968CS I'd think that was a photo from the early 80s.

[r129sl]

Caruso said:

I once drove my 928 from Brighton to Aberdeen in a day. That was a great journey, although the cost of the petrol was more than the cost of a flight.

Worth every penny, I'd have thought. Aeroplanes are OK but airports are horrible. My favourite long journey was Bruges to Stuttgart to Northumberland in a day. The petrol bill was fairly horrific on that one and I wasn't travelling by 928.

[r129sl]

anonymous said:

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You're right on every point, of course. Except maybe the Panamera point: it's too big, surely? And you know I like your Boxster.

The big difference for me between driving and flying over long distance (apart from not having to endure airports) is that driving gives a sense of being on a journey, of moving through changing landscapes, a changing climate, changing peoples. It gives a sense of space, of place and of scale. Andalusia is about three hours away by Jet 2: it might as well be next door. But in the car, you realise it is a long, long, long way away. It took me three days and three nights last time I did it single handed (albeit via Millau, just for the fun of crossing the bridge there). A sea, two mountain ranges, three whole countries and three languages. What a journey that was.

[Bo_apex]

r129sl said:

You're right on every point, of course. Except maybe the Panamera point: it's too big, surely? And you know I like your Boxster.

+1
looks flabby, without sinuous grace.

[rich888]

Bo_apex said:

r129sl said:

You're right on every point, of course. Except maybe the Panamera point: it's too big, surely? And you know I like your Boxster.

+1
looks flabby, without sinuous grace.

Wow, do you have any more pics of the black 928 in this pic because it looks drop dead gorgeous

[300bhp/ton]

928's look amazing IMO. Surprised they have taken so long to become loved though. Would have thought prices would have risen ages ago on them.


However if anyone is wanting an upset, there is an interesting and fun Porsche 928 comparison vid here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NBOjGyGmz4&in...

[Bo_apex]

300bhp/ton said:

928's look amazing IMO. Surprised they have taken so long to become loved though. Would have thought prices would have risen ages ago on them.


However if anyone is wanting an upset, there is an interesting and fun Porsche 928 comparison vid here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NBOjGyGmz4&in...

good comedic value

but this is more fun....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P29nHru4fvI

[Normy]

I've owned an '85 S2 for 16 years and if they still made 928's, I'd go out and buy a new one TONIGHT.

This thing is utterly perfect! Built like a tank [as all Porsche's are], precise, FAST....and with my Borla exhaust it sounds like a NASCAR race car on the banks of Daytona.

-I get this all the time: Stopped at a stoplight, some guy comes up next to me and says "That thing isn't supposed to sound like that. Did you do a Chevy conversion?"

Me: "No, that's the way it was built. I just uncorked the exhaust". Usually their eyes cross at this point, the notion of something that looks this slick being propelled by an engine that if it was alive would probably look like a cross between Neanderthal man and a grizzly bear suddenly hitting them~

N!

[Gc285]

simonrockman said:

I didn't realise how much the price has increased. When I saw this in Hexagon Classics : http://hexagonclassics.com/cars/1990-porsche-928-5...

I thought the price was £6k, and it was the cheapest thing in the showroom. I looked again, it was £60k - and they have an auto for £54k.

Simon

I think that for original, gt's, in mint condition and low mileage , £50-60k ,is good value.
Manual GTS' are few and far between and a low mileage one, in the right colour, would not be there for long at £60k ,if it indeed reaches the open market! I suspect the right car would approach 5 zeros in the near future.

A 100000 mile car is the better choice for me, as you wouldn't be so concerned driving it!

[Ftumpch]

Sorry to come in late but, someone was saying there's no modern equivalent to the 928?

How about the Ferrari 612?? Same overkill concept, same polarising-but-practical styling, same year-in-the-wilderness followed by triumphant return?

I'm shopping for a good-value GT car at the moment and I honestly can't decide which of the two to go for...

[Ftumpch]

Bo_apex said:

r129sl said:

You're right on every point, of course. Except maybe the Panamera point: it's too big, surely? And you know I like your Boxster.

+1
looks flabby, without sinuous grace.

Anybody looks flabby next to a dry person when they're sweating that profusely.

[ukkid35]

A few photos from our ten day trip to the Pyrenees, sadly have to head home to London on Sunday











The AD08r are simply awesome, I've had them on my other car for a few years, but other than last month's trip to the Ring, this is the first time I've had a chance to try them on the 928 in demanding conditions.

[sparta6]

RoverP6B said:

Who the hell LIKES pop-up headlights? They were and remain a stupid idea!

Yes. Pinninfarina really messed up all those Ferraris with pop-up headlights, especially the F40

[RoverP6B]

sparta6 said:

Yes. Pinninfarina really messed up all those Ferraris with pop-up headlights, especially the F40

Well, the F40 is the ugliest Ferrari ever made...

[Elderly]

Friend of mine bought one new in 1986? - he had a phone installed at the time
and he tells me that the cost of the phone then was more than the car is worth now

[ukkid35]

i don't care that my 240k mile 928 is worthless

It is still a lot of fun and extremely capable

[Bo_apex]

RoverP6B said:

Well, the F40 is the ugliest Ferrari ever made...

Only if you say so