this thread or the car? this thread is going to continue in this fashion until he feeds the masses. nalin already set the bar for making promises before anything was done and ten suddenly dissappearing. as for the car, IF it is ever completed, it should be interesting to see.

 

Isn't a rotary 944 just an RX-7?

 

Pretty close...

 

porsche gots widebody cuh!! hahaa

 

porsche gets better gas mileage

 

We should ask Nalin...

 

I've got it, put a veilside bodykit on there too...

 

and naaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwzzzzzzz

 

The resemblence is strinkingly close! Are we sure it's not a rebadged 2nd gen 7?

and those pics would sure be mighty fine about now...

 

well, considering that Mazda admitted that they tried to make the FC look like the 944....

something about a rocket scientist here

 

Speaking of resemblances, I give you the Porsche 924 (introduced 1975) and the first gen RX-7 (introduced 1979)...

 

All we do is steal...

 

oh please, then Porsche copied Triumph's TR7.

 

those look an awful lot like my first cars. first was a red 924 and the second was a black rx-7. boy did i love that 7.

 

Any pics today?

 

ah, you jest, right?

 

Uhhh...considering the 924 came out only a few months after the TR7 I don't think so. But Mazda was hardly the only maker ripping off the Old World back then. Toyota is still at it.

What's important for Mazda fans is how strong the Mazda styling DNA has become. How many cars out there does the RX-8 look like? That's right...none.

 

There was a business professor at my university that used to work for Porsche on the 944 team.

I never had him, but he had a reputation for being an arrogant *****. He also had begrudgingly admitted in classes that one of the reasons the 944 left the North American market was because the FC RX-7 undercut it by more than 10K and they were outmaneuvered by Mazda.

So I decided nothing would be more fitting, than for me to park my '87 FC turbo (looked identical to the one above - color and all) next to his Audi every chance I could get.

 

i would have tried to avoid his class, how good at biz can the guy be if a company like Porsche was outmaneuvered and forced to pull one of their cars out of the North American market?

 

The 944 was never pulled out of any market. It was replaced with the 968.

944 sales started to tank (worldwide) in 1987 and the 968 did nothing to stop the slide, until the car was finally done in by the same sports car slump that eventually killed the FD.

It is true that the lower-priced Japanese competition hurt Porsche, and that the 944 was overpriced. The original 944 and 944 Turbo were bargains but Porsche got greedy and jacked the prices up ridiculously.

 

Bring your green hat...

 

aww no.

maybe we'll try again tomorrow

 

What about just 1?

 

Dare I ask today?

 

still holding my breath...as my face turns blue...