RE: Driving the Porsche 935 at Goodwood
Discussion
love the slant nose look on a porsche never sure the rear looks as right but understand its about aero not looks.
Why can't we have cars with pop up head lights now. Is it pedestrian crash safety. would love it if the next turbo 4 had a slant nose option. course being about 99% short of the purchase price its of course irrelevant
Why can't we have cars with pop up head lights now. Is it pedestrian crash safety. would love it if the next turbo 4 had a slant nose option. course being about 99% short of the purchase price its of course irrelevant
je777 said:
Look at all the people whose egos are so fragile they can’t read something as inconsequential as a comment about a car without working themselves into a lather.
Pathetic that any opportunity to make yourself feel like ‘a big man’ by insulting a stranger is leapt upon.
Feel free to have another go, I won't be reading it and - and this is a point you should bear in mind more often - nobody cares.
The ones that take offence at comments like yours will be the nerdy, goofy geeky types with buck teeth, the know it all types.Pathetic that any opportunity to make yourself feel like ‘a big man’ by insulting a stranger is leapt upon.
Feel free to have another go, I won't be reading it and - and this is a point you should bear in mind more often - nobody cares.
These type live under a rock at most circuits /race venues and think owning anything less than a Porsche /ferrari ect is beneath them, they'll also be the type to comment on toe and heel, bend apex's, using all the road and like 'making progress' ie complete f
kin dorks.. A1VDY said:
The ones that take offence at comments like yours will be the nerdy, goofy geeky types with buck teeth, the know it all types.
These type live under a rock at most circuits /race venues and think owning anything less than a Porsche /ferrari ect is beneath them, they'll also be the type to comment on toe and heel, bend apex's, using all the road and like 'making progress' ie complete fkin dorks..
Oh look, je777 opened a second account, how cute!These type live under a rock at most circuits /race venues and think owning anything less than a Porsche /ferrari ect is beneath them, they'll also be the type to comment on toe and heel, bend apex's, using all the road and like 'making progress' ie complete f
kin dorks.. Turbobanana said:
Indeed it wasn't, as 2 minutes of Google research confirms. The Whittington brothers (interesting characters...) and Klaus Ludwig drove a 935/77A: Moby Dick was a 935/78.
Very “interesting” characters 
I only saw this excellent video about them a year or so ago :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2U8Uy_0qFuk
gigglebug said:
It must be such an inspiration to your family and friends to have someone like yourself in their lives who's first instinct is always to see the positive in every situation. Where would the world be without people like you lifting the tone of life out of the gutter?
A bit harsh. Personally I agree with the OP - and we're all entitled to our own opinion.je777 said:
Look at all the people whose egos are so fragile they can’t read something as inconsequential as a comment about a car without working themselves into a lather.
Pathetic that any opportunity to make yourself feel like ‘a big man’ by insulting a stranger is leapt upon.
Feel free to have another go, I won't be reading it and - and this is a point you should bear in mind more often - nobody cares.
U okay hun?Pathetic that any opportunity to make yourself feel like ‘a big man’ by insulting a stranger is leapt upon.
Feel free to have another go, I won't be reading it and - and this is a point you should bear in mind more often - nobody cares.
Turbobanana said:
Pierre-kma6q said:
Very nice, but the 935 that won Le Mans in 1979 was not a ‘Moby Dick’ version.
Indeed it wasn't, as 2 minutes of Google research confirms. The Whittington brothers (interesting characters...) and Klaus Ludwig drove a 935/77A: Moby Dick was a 935/78.
Yet again PH can't be bothered to get the facts right but won't correct themselves or apologise for looking like clowns. Simple facts about things like car types or the correct spelling of the names of drivers they're touching themselves over are deemed completely irrelevant. It's like they do it deliberately, like that fabulous West End show The Play that Goes Wrong.
Maldini35 said:
I’m normally a Porsche fan but I really struggle to like this.
It just looks so big and clumsy compared to the original or even the gorgeous GT2 it’s based upon.
Feels most un-Porsche like to me.
It just looks so big and clumsy compared to the original or even the gorgeous GT2 it’s based upon.
Feels most un-Porsche like to me.
For me there are a few obvious things that help to contribute to the original looking more elegant: firstly the rear overhang on the original is far larger proportionally than the tributes which makes a difference to the overall balance, the nose of the new car is blunt instrument in comparison and lastly the waistlines are completely different when comparing the original to modern car. The glass house of the original looks to make up near enough 50% of it's height where as with the tribute it is a lot less than that.
I don't think that it should be surprise to anyone that the modern iteration doesn't look exactly the same as the original, it is just a tribute after all and a lot of the final result has been dictated purely by the fact that they are using a car that is separated by 30 odd years from it's inspiration as a base.
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