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01-04-2021, 04:38 PM | #3412 |
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Have you guys seen an E93 cabrio? That targa top actually looks pretty simple to me.
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911 targas have always looked pretty ugly to me. In the older ones, something about how they flattened the roof plus the way the rear window was curved to make it look like a 50s era American front windshield. Blech.
Those newer ones look like someone with power at Porsche got really high, cracked a Bud, asked someone to hold his beer, and then threatened everyone to make a new 911 targa or they'd lose their job and be blackballed from ever working in the auto industry or racing forever. Then he gave the designers he'd been getting fucked up with 30 seconds to sketch it out, screamed, "Brilliant!" and tossed it to the engineers with instructions, "make it look exactly like that!" Yeah. That's what happened.
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01-04-2021, 05:11 PM | #3417 |
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Re: e93–yep, it’s pretty complex. Even the model comes with a detailed set of instructions to put the top down.
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I understood why the ancient targas make sense. Essentially zero complexity at a time when convertibles were truly garbage, but it's 1,000% a nostalgia play today.
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I was eyeing the soft top M3 as a possible next convertible, until BMW designers uglified the thing with that horrible grill.
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