even so it doesn't seem like a bad thing. the old E24 M635csi for example, that was a 3.5L engine?
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Slightly off topic, but Porsche does use 3.8 flat 6s right?
So to you guys, that's pretty massive right?
Although to Porsche's credit, they do use turbos.
Europe builds all the nice cars, but you guys drive the bitch versions of them, while we in North America drive the ballin' versions. Off hand, I think I see more 335i coupes than I see 328i coupes.
Eurofail.
North America - specifically the States - is the land of cheap cars. And even we in Canada get to buy all the nice German shit you guys do but the cost of buying and running them is cheaper.
was it the carrera engine or the GT1 based engine?
Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."
The tuning world is a different story though. Other than reliability, you have to wonder about the different parameters in a tuned car or a standard Porsche. Reliability, fuel consumption, emissions, noise, vibrations, without even considering facts as the economical sense. A tuner has few options, enlarging the engine or swapping a larger one. perhaps for an automaker it makes more sense to design a different engine, on the long term.
the 996 GT3 had the GT1 monoblock, or something.
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yeah i was wondering which one they enlarged to 4.5L, i am assuming the GT1 derived engine?
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