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YOUR RESEARCH996...Ugly !...are you blind?
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originally the fact of water cooling
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Really though their biggest issue was originally the fact of water cooling but I don't see any now saying the 959, GT2/3 (water cooled ofc) or any other of the more recent 911s are aweful cars so they are just left with the headlights which I love because they are from the GT1 and the minor interior quality failings.
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Clean shut lines and my favourite headlights (996.2)
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The 996 has such clean shut lines and my favourite headlights (996.2).
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Took a few pictures of my car yesterday, prior to a run across Dartmoor...
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Really though their biggest issue was originally the fact of water cooling but I don't see any now saying the 959, GT2/3 (water cooled ofc) or any other of the more recent 911s are aweful cars so they are just left with the headlights which I love because they are from the GT1 and the minor interior quality failings.
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Took a few pictures of my car yesterday, prior to a run across Dartmoor...
...anyone making statements that the 996 is ugly must be blind...just look at it...a timeless shape with simply beautiful lines :worship:
Yep, I think they're great.
If any other car maker had released the 996 there'd be no issue and people would love them. It's only because they were compared to the round headlight cars that people had a fit. It's old news now.
I'm onto my 3rd and they're not just great cars, but great 911s.
Doing the tripod, parked at Silvretta pass.
Just realised they're all from the side/back. Better include 'those" lights then. :wink:
Early morning at the Grossglockner pass.
...wife and I will drive across Dartmoor for a run this afternoon leading to a Devon cream tea at the Two Bridges Hotel ... :thumbs:
...only problem is if I exceed 40 she twitters on about sheep and speed limits :roll:
I've only had positive comments from the public (non-air cooled owners) on mine. The 996 has such clean shut lines and my favourite headlights (996.2).
I do think that if the air-cooled lot didn't slate the 996, Porsche would have been more bold in their designs post 996.
Other than Pinky, I can't think of the last time anybody commented on one of my 996s. My most commonly commented-on car is probably my R107.
A standard 996 is very much under the radar. I like that.
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They are just jealous that the 996 is better in pretty much every way but they paid far far more :floor:
Really though their biggest issue was originally the fact of water cooling but I don't see any now saying the 959, GT2/3 (water cooled ofc) or any other of the more recent 911s are aweful cars so they are just left with the headlights which I love because they are from the GT1 and the minor interior quality failings.
Time they finally shut up and admitted that the 996 was the savour of the 911, that all newer 911s are based from it and the old aircooleds are cool history but no more.
I did a video about the Carrera M96 engine design, I found it very interesting to see how much of the design or the aircooled engines was carried over but the parts count was massively reduced and the design simplified. Some sections removed like the dual scavenge pumps, which came back to bite them. Combining the block, cylinder carrier and cylinders to a single unit, and the heads and cam carriers to another, plus cam holders in the cam cover helped to reduce parts count massively at rhe cost of serviceability. When a set of pistons and cylinders for a 997 3.8l GT3 is about £12k it isn't a cheap alternative any more!!
As for the headlights. The only 911 version where all lights are in a single unit which is very easy to swap out. Great design. I was never a fan of the golfball in the cheeks look of the later cars. I prefer the 996.1 over the 996.2
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