914 history

[Taka Mizutani]

It's not all bad- I don't think the Boxster, Cayman or 997 are all that bad.

The Cayenne I never really understood, but I think that was a necessary
evil-
it made a lot of money while it sold- now it's kind of dead in terms of
sales due to
the high price of fuel.

I thought the 924 merely used an Audi engine because Porsche wanted an entry
level sports car using a lot of off-the-shelf parts to reduce the cost. The
924 was
always marketed here as a Porsche, not anything to do with Audi, nor did
they do
that in Europe IIRC.

Taka


On 11/29/06, McCohens at aol.com <McCohens at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Porsche designed the 914 as a Karman Ghia replacement, but management
> changes at VW killed the deal.  Porsche had too much into the project
> to  back out,
> so they sold the car themselves.  It was marketed as a VW-porsche  in
> europe.
> Same thing happened with the 924.  It was between Audi and
> Porsche  though.
>
> Those were the days when porsche was run by engineers.  They took on  all
> sorts of technical projects for other companies.  Now they are run
> by  bean
> counters and marketing a#$holes.  SUVs and cupholders are more  important.
>
> Randy Cohen
> former 914 and 924 owner
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