[DeTomaso] NPC: WSJ Porsche article

[Larry - Ohio Time]

<< articles are part old classic Car&Driver>>

>From my point of view the clasic Car and Driver wrighting was some of the
best automotive stuff around. One of the few things that I have read cover
to cover for years. I read one not to long ago and it made me sick. I then
read a Road and Track....not bad not bad at all.

Larry (likes words) - Cleveland



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From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com] On Behalf
Of Charles Engles
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2016 8:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: WSJ Porsche article

Dear Audio,


           Well......it is excellent prose, but it is meant tongue in cheek.
His articles are part old classic Car&Driver, part old classic Road&Track
and part automotive prose, IMHO.   

           It is certainly not your common car article.......!


                               Warmest regards, Chuck Engles


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Yikes.  Excessively flowery prose there.  And coming from someone claiming
to be modest in nature.  I feel like I just ate an entire chocolate creme
pie covered entirely in maraschino cherries.
"I mean, there I am with my perfect silver streak, Persol sunglasses and
reasonable body-mass index, wheeling oh-so-expertly the 2017 Porsche
718
Boxster S, the snarl of this fine little dragon rending the suburban veil." 
Dude.  It's okay.  Just throw on that wig and high heels you have stashed
away in your basement and let 'er rip!  
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On July 31, 2016 at 1:03 PM, "Charles Engles"  wrote:Dear Forum,
                   I offer some excerpts from the WSJ automotive column of
Dan Neil from this weekend: "The Sultrier Snarl of the Turbo Porsche
Boxster".
"As scripture counsels, I am a modest person.  So I have never quite shaken
the feeling that, maybe, bombing around town in a flashy drop-top sports car
was showing off.  A bit, don't you think?
I mean, there I am with my perfect silver streak, Persol sunglasses and
reasonable body-mass index, wheeling oh-so-expertly the 2017 Porsche
718
Boxster S, the snarl of this fine little dragon rending the suburban veil.
Arch and artful, smart and fine, the midengine, two-seat Boxster is the
company's starter sports car.  The 2017 model adds slinkiness with available
18, 19 or 20 inch wheels press-fit into the wheel wells.  Fancy schmanzy.
  I bet a lot of people think, "hey, there's someone who works at a Porsche
dealership."  Perhaps they think I am what they used to call an available
gentleman?  Curbside clinicians will diagnose midlife crisis, and they would
be spot-on.  This look would also work well for the owner of a chain of hair
salons.
But some, a cultivated few, will cup an ear, waiting to hear the new
turbocharged Boxster under way.  They will note the car's more concussive
idle-the flat-four engine inherently has more of a discernible pulse than
the previous six, even a bit of VW chuff-overdubbed with the distinctive
chinning of the Porsche's valvetrain.   And cooling fans, lots of
fans.
Perhaps these observers will linger over the sound of me romping it, all
flourishing tom-toms and tenor trombones pitching up to the satisfyingly
instant first-to-second upshift, over 7,000 revs  Not loud, not furious, but
murderously precise and sultry.  After a moment, I expect these connoisseurs
will approve.  Then they can go back to hating me.
------So,yeah, turbochargers.  Trouble is ,turbos sap energy from the
engine's exhaust-gas stream, which means less sound pressure, less of an
aural presence.  In a word: volume.  There will be purists who walk away
from this vastly fast, quicker, roundly superior Boxster only because they
prefer the dinosaur trill of the previous engine.
              Here is where Porsche's engineering and my Amish sense of
modesty meet.  Thanks to a lot of clever engineering-including an acoustic
channel from the engine bay to just above the driver's left shoulder-the
Boxster S sounds much more fierce from the driver's seat than it does
outside the car.. As my wife drove off in it, I realized how short a
distance the sound carried.  There is a pretty huge difference in gestalt.
              You know what?  I am fine with a technical outcome that allows
the driver's experience to be rich and vivid, without unduly imposing on
those around him.  The problem with driving an aggressively loud open-top
sports car is that, when people look around for the jerk, they can easily
see you.  Oops, sorry.  Please, return to your outdoor memorial service.  "
                              Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles

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