Yep, exactly. The 993 is not prone to IMS failure. The earliest IMS-affected engines are the Boxsters from 1997. No air-cooled engines are affected.
Yep, exactly. The 993 is not prone to IMS failure. The earliest IMS-affected engines are the Boxsters from 1997. No air-cooled engines are affected.
Turbos did not, all others did (including 997.1 actually as well).
It is a wonderful car to drive (hence my post below) but there IS a reason it’s not loved. The 993 and prior had a very utilitarian interior which was great - all about the drive, aged well, no nannies, etc. The 996 was the first step in modernizing that interior and they made some really questionable choices in…
The 996 turbos definitely have and the Porsche market in general is insane so it moves everything up with it. But now that the air-cooled market has at least stabilized a bit, hopefully they won’t become too expensive too quickly.
For the kind of money you can get a 996 for these days, I can’t think of anything else I’d rather have instead.
I can’t think of a hotel that is valet-only which wouldn’t allow you to self-park. We never advertised it but we had an underground entrance with assigned parking for celebrities or folks who didn’t want the valets to touch the car (we had a silver McLaren F1 included in that group, I stared at it every day for the…
I have almost zero use for a truck anymore and I had the exact same reaction. But I have always had a soft spot in my heart for the Ridgeline, they innovated a lot of features on those which showed up across the board on trucks in the years following.
Oh man, that would’ve been an amazing end to that incident. Of course she may have turned into a T1000 and latched onto the trunk of my car.
Lol, that would’ve been so much better. When I realized what I was seeing and we made eye contact, I just had a natural (immature) reaction to it instead.
Well, there is a possibility that the rear-ending was her “fault” (I’m not an insurance adjuster so YYMV here). When she took off from the light at the top of the canyon, she was carving in and out of traffic and generally driving like a total lunatic for the minute or so I could see her ahead of me. So, it’s also…
A few years ago I was commuting to work. Came to a stop and a bird shit on my windshield. I turned on the window washers and let the blades clean the avian poo from my field of vision.
Sure it can be. But when you’re talking about shitboxes like those, the difference in price between the ones seen here and a well-maintained but driven one is probably all of about 1000 bucks. For that kind of difference, I’d rather not spend weeks waiting for the next thing I forgot needed to be replaced breaking…
Umm, those are fucking awesome. Now I wish I had studied skeleton luge in school.
For as long as they’ve been sitting, you’d quickly wish you had bought a high-mileage (but actually driven) example.
Yeah that’s all been dad rock for years now. My proudest moment as a father happened this weekend when my 5-yo daughter started singing the chorus to “Nightrain” at the park this weekend.
Did you perchance try to order a burrito from BofA earlier this morning?
I’ve driven the S-class and an XC90 so if that counts as experience, I’d put the Volvo at about 65% of the way there. And I really do love the Volvo interior but this new generation of S-class is just special unlike any other car I’ve ever been in that wasn’t hand-built in the UK.
It really is an amazing car, and for my money, it’s the best design that MB currently has roaming the streets. I’ve only driven the S550 (was a 2015 I think?) but boy did I love that car. I wouldn’t trade my 991 for it, but if I could afford to have 2 cars, I’d be hard-pressed to find something better than this.
I loved the Countach and Testarossa just like any kid did in the 80s but truly obsessed - that title would go to the 4th generation Chevy Camaro (the pre-facelift one tho as this was in 1993).
I’m legitimately shocked and impressed that you were able to come up with that many different forms of authentication. Bravo sir.