Thursday, December 01, 2022

Top Gear co-host Dax Shepard had Porscheophile Jerry Seinfeld on his podcast

Dax mentioned how the 911 outperforms the much flashier (maybe even more expensive) competition Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Pagani, etc ... and that is what makes a 911 special.

Huh. I never like the Porsche 911's looks, don't care about how it performs (nor any other millionaires toys or race cars - I'm interested in good looking cars, mostly the muscle car variety) but I'm fascinated by this perspective and insight that the reason some people prefer the 911 is because it's just better designed to accomplish the one task. 

Well, I think the Vette beats the Porsche in cost and performance, but hey, I'm not about to get to comparing all the races they've been in, stats on test courses, or whatever to see which does what. 

That's what the board on Top Gear did back before Clarkson lost his shit and got fired. 

Anyway: 
 the 959 cost about 250k to purchase, and about a million to make. Porsche, like VW making the Veyron, knew they had to make a halo car to show what they were capable of, even if it was a a ridiculous cost to the company

Dax totaled his Charger Hellcat and there isn't a single mention of that online, not on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or googling recent news. Just on his podcast, so, not something he wanted to instagram. 

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