^My wish for hippy came true

 

thats indeed a nice surprise..

thanks for posting..918 looks good..just get rid of all this hybrid bs please..

Do you know where the pictures where taken? judging on the background somewhere close to the Alps..on the spanish part obviously..

 

2014 Porsche 918 spyder channels its inner hippie

 

Totally agree. None of Porsche's current offerings look particularly that great to me, especially compared to their predecessors. The 991 is much too large and disproportional compared to the 997. I think the front end looks pretty good, but the rest of the car is so out of proportion and the rear end is gigantic. Example (And I'm using 1st person dealer photos rather than touched up press photos):





Same thing with the new Boxster; I like all of the details on the car, but the proportion is just so wrong! It looks boxy, cheap un finished, too large, and the bulging head lights looks like a factory defect.

And does anybody agree with me on this: All current Porsche designs are sort of "bi polar"? I mean that sometimes they will look really, really good, and other times, they will just look like a plain disgrace?

 

Whoa, this thing is nuts. I seriously need 850k like...now.

 

all the nice paint in the world won’t convince me that i need a hybrid super car that weighs so much

 

Couldnt agree more !! - the cayenne - which I dont like anyway - is not really bi polar - it just looks like any other boring Asian SUV. The 991 and also the Boxster are pi-polar-..but I would give them another heading/title: both Models are trying to create attention by all means with "design gimmicks". In contrast the 997 was more classical - more simple - more traditional.

A Porsche should not try to create attention by all means - but Porsche has left its tradition and past..and now being part of the VW imperium will make that even more clear. Management contracts are margin promises are more important than tradition and values - what counts now is shareholder value by all means.

The future will show whether this will work. One more last word: The former CEO of Porsche once said: Porsche did so well because we were not becoming too big - we were small and served special niches. If you become too big - you will end up like the dinosaurus.."

Lets see whether he was right or wrong..(this will take however some more years to know)

 

Look at this blog about race cars. There is a video with spider on the road.
Porsche 918 Spyder | theRaceCars.com

 

So I'm not crazy! :lolL

And by "big", I assume he meant rear ends too.

Compared to other cars the 991's rear end isn't all that big, but compared to other 911's and how it looks proportionally it is really repulsive from some angles.

 

Waiting for the Gulf livery...