Nick wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 1:44 pm
We could have a "hard to get into the seat" competition .
Are you a "snug" fit in the Porsche ?
No, its nice in there. The 987 is a bit wider than the original 986. The seat hold you in place but that is its job. The running gear is the same as the 997 911 without the rear "seats", so all good.
Once in is great, its the getting in (with the roof up) that requires a bit of timing.
Whenever an honest man discovers that he's mistaken, he will either cease to be mistaken or he will cease to be honest.
andrew Ivimey wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 9:49 pm
Cor, I've driven one. Basically you are almost lying down - silly really. Huge acceleration of maybe it was just because I was so close to the road.
Reminds me of a story.
One very foggy day, a traffic policeman was horrified when he heard a sports car drive by at a speed (he thought) in excess of the prevailing conditions. He radioed control, and a short while later another officer managed to stop the car, and asked the driver why he was going fast when the visibility was so bad.
The driver asked the officer to get down level with the cars windscreen, and the officer was amazed to see that the fog did not go right down to the ground, and that the driver had actually got a clear view.
True ? The car was a Lotus Europa.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
andrew Ivimey wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 9:49 pm
Cor, I've driven one. Basically you are almost lying down - silly really. Huge acceleration of maybe it was just because I was so close to the road.
It seems to me that if we limited personal motor vehicles to the power of a cinque cento the internal combustion engine would have many many millions of useful miles to go ( while we develop genuinely ecological (electrical) alternatives. Like the dinosaurs and probably homo sapiens at this rate the museum is the right place in the grand scheme of things for extinct reptiles, is and our glitzy toys.
Philosophers have only interpreted the world - the point, however, is to change it. No it isn't ... maybe we should leave it alone for a while.