914 history

[Grant Lenahan]

This is correct. The 924 was an engineering project that Porsche took 
over and made the best of.
Grant
On Nov 29, 2006, at 4:10 PM, LL - NY wrote:

> 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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