Porsche 944 question

[Matt Suffern]

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> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:19:04 -0800
> From: "Mark J. Besso" <quattro at audisport.com>
> Subject: Re: Porche 944 question
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> Do you remain a purist?  

To a certain extent, yes.

> Do you want to win races?  

Not especially.  The majority of the folks on this list don't share a single-minded obsession with speed.  To many, there are more 
important qualities like how the car responds to you and how it makes you feel to drive it, and most of these qualities are rooted in the 
character provided by the engine and the chassis.  Replace one and substantially revamp the other and you no longer have the same 
car, in essence.  You lose what made the original car special in the pursuit of more speed.  There will always be somebody faster--the 
real goal; the real satisfaction lies elsewhere, I think.  Try to understand this and you'll begin to realize why many of us don't consider the 
SBC to be God's gift to the automotive world.

Matt