914 history

[LL - NY]

To my recollection, the 924 was to be a VW designate, not Audi. The use of
the
Audi 2144 cc four (the basis of our vaunted fives) was because of the
VW-Audi
connection, at the time of the 924, the only availible I-4's that were
purely VW
were the Golf/Scirocco 1.5 and 1.6 liters.

LL - NY

On 11/29/06, Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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