4 door porsche sedan?
4 door porsche sedan?
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RobDickinson

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31,343 posts

271 months

Thursday 15th April 2004
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www.onlyporsche.net/news/49

v8 - v10 engines 4 doors, rears prolly suicide.

veewhy

708 posts

269 months

Thursday 15th April 2004
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh. It's all wrong. Someone must have the big cheese at porsche's home phone noumber, call him now, tell him to stop torturing us with this stuff. They seem to have some kind of 'mission to mars' complex about trying to create the ultimate 4 door 'sports cars', have been trying for over 30 years and still can't decide what they are supposed to be building.



>> Edited by veewhy on Thursday 15th April 21:31

dazren

22,612 posts

278 months

Thursday 15th April 2004
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Looks ghastly. Looks like an april fool joke with a GT front, Cayenne front doors and a 996 rear.

Wait till Dogsharks sees it.

DAZ

david hype

2,296 posts

269 months

Friday 16th April 2004
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Suicide doors at the rear?.....Wow!

nick4692

22 posts

257 months

Friday 16th April 2004
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yipee!
Well if this is true im placing an order! (assuming i can afford it...)Great Stuff! looks great! can go alongside my cayenne V6! Woohoo!

POORCARDEALER

8,607 posts

258 months

Friday 16th April 2004
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The Maserati Quattroporte of the Porsche world............

Melv

4,708 posts

282 months

Friday 16th April 2004
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Hmmmmmmmmmmm...........

Did anybody ever se the Ferrari 456 four door/ 'estate' conversion? That was STUNNING.

Melv

Plotloss

67,280 posts

287 months

Friday 16th April 2004
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POORCARDEALER said:


The Maserati Quattroporte of the Porsche world............


Except the new Maser is easy on the eye unlike that thing...

veewhy

708 posts

269 months

Friday 16th April 2004
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POORCARDEALER said:


The Maserati Quattroporte of the Porsche world............


Yes and look what happened to that, but for its day, the Masser had the right lines and proportions, and didn't have to bow to brand identity, etc.

sb-1

3,340 posts

280 months

Friday 16th April 2004
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I quite like it....will have to wait and see if the finished product is the same as the artists impression.

lightweight

1,165 posts

265 months

Friday 16th April 2004
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I love all things Pork I can even appreciate the Cyanne though only in Turbo form (did have a problem getting north of 8mpg)
But this thing Its a dogs Dinner surely the only punter who would buy one would be the sultan of bruni he specelises in four door exotics if you want one wait till he is bored of it and buy it cheep as with his Listers 959's GT1s. Why pay real money for that thing . He recently sold one of those 4 door Feraris i seem to recal it looked good value.
€220k for a real ugly porsche saloon car with no heratige(its not a sports car!!)
Does no one remember the eighties loads of models red braces porsche taken to the brink of bankrupsy because of there short sighted approch? Is silver the new Guards red?? FLAME AT WILL

rodsmith

261 posts

278 months

Friday 16th April 2004
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Melv said:
Hmmmmmmmmmmm...........

Did anybody ever se the Ferrari 456 four door/ 'estate' conversion? That was STUNNING.

Melv


I love the 456 and hadn't seen it.

Mad!





Melv

4,708 posts

282 months

Friday 16th April 2004
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I saw the Ferrari at Silverstone a few years ago. Very, very proffessional job. They MUST have made the glass or borrowed from another vehicle -simply stunning.

There's not a lot of estate conversions that work -XJS, Rolls Royce, XJ6, Rover 3500 -all look dreadful!!

Melv

Roscabezas

118 posts

270 months

Friday 16th April 2004
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I recognize the pictures are a good photoshop. But nothing else.

warmfuzzies

4,271 posts

270 months

Friday 16th April 2004
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Oh Dear, a porker for the septic market methinks, pitifully ugly and totally out of proportion.

yee gods what do some people put in the water.....

kevin

RobDickinson

Original Poster:

31,343 posts

271 months

Friday 16th April 2004
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Roscabezas said:
I recognize the pictures are a good photoshop. But nothing else.


Fairly certain they are photoshoped to some extent, the rear door handles I've seen in at least 2 positions (normal and suicide). But most automotive design shops would rather photoshop an image than bother making a car, so I'm not sure its any less credible for that.

Of course that same studio wouldnt be able to leak photo's (real or faked) of a new model before an official launch, even camera phones are banned in the ones I know.

bob944

163 posts

260 months

Saturday 17th April 2004
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Porsche are oviously still intent on getting rid of the silly idea of rear engines. They tried hard to do this with the 928 but lots of stick in the muds couldn't let go. The revolting big C thing is just a test bed for the new running gear for a 928 replacement, now shown here. I have to say that as a designer it also looks 'orid, nothing like as nice as I expected. Their next move will be to split the front engine and give us back a real sports car, a 944, 968 replacement. Hurray for common sense!

granville

18,764 posts

278 months

Saturday 17th April 2004
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I must be missing something: is there some sort of pre-programmed gene people have which immediately alienates them to anything not exactly beetled of profile?

Ok, it probably does need a few nips and tucks here and there but it's no worse proportioned than say, the current Jag XJ saloon range which for me is a foul riot of miscued lines and bulbousity.

Good grief, it just isn't that bad - that new Maser is ok but could equally be accused of being the hurriedly sketched product of an Italian's post- domestic strop, a veritable feast of unflowing, arguably conflicting, randomn curves and angularism.

Plus, if Porsche can make a saloon with some genuine practicality to that end (i.e. luggage space), you can be sure of it's ability to handle sublimely, stop and go with class-leading aplomb.

If Ferrari can 'get away' with that scalpel attack Scaglietti thing, this should at the very least be acceptable as moderately conservative (in timely and acknowledged Stuttgart versus Maranello fashion) and allowed to dominate the A-roads and motorways like it's illustrious and immortal progenitor generally dictates things track side.

BrianTheYank

7,585 posts

267 months

Monday 19th April 2004
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Porsches whole reason for the 4 door is because after the cayanne(sp) release, they have been selling mostly those and their heaviest most sluggish 911, forget which model type exactly. So they realized that people want to go for the big and comfortable car so they are just taking advantage of that market even more.

rico

7,917 posts

272 months

Monday 19th April 2004
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As long as they keep making the GT3, GT2 and Turbos i couldn't care less what else Porsche make. After all they're making a shed load of money off the Cayenne and this will be pumped back into the development programs for the fun stuff.