Comments on: Oh Goody: Another Diesel Porsche

By: SupaMan

SupaMan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:53:21 +0000

That happens when you take a ‘correct’ the 911 body i.e. switch the engine from front to back and add 2 doors in the process.

Ugly if you ask me….I’ll stick with Aston Martin’s 4 door design.

By: BlueBrat

BlueBrat — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:21:35 +0000

I hope the Panamera gets better in person because I agree with everyone else; that porsche is Ugly. How the hell do you go from a design like the Cayman (and everything else) to that?

By: Ingvar

Ingvar — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:11:57 +0000

Never mind the diesel, that car is butt fucking ugly! There’s no other way to describe it.

What the hell were they thinking of?

By: blowfish

blowfish — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:31:53 +0000

How about Used veg oil? will it be as Carcinogenic as King Abdullah’s black gold?

We can buy these UVO at the pump , but almost same price as dino oel.

Where I grew up there was a brand of Cancer stick called Abdullah #7.

By: blowfish

blowfish — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:27:19 +0000

Cayenne sold more than 924 + 944 + 928 total.

And the tooloing costs were divided with Touaeg.
So little risk for Porsche.

For a porsche dsl they need V10 or 12 inorder to go fast. Cant be an also ran at the stop light grand prix

By: blowfish

blowfish — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:23:49 +0000

psarhjinian :
June 28th, 2008 at 9:37 pm

blowfish,

When diesels can approach the emissions of gas engines, then we’ll let them back in.

hear the blu tec is pretty clean.
arent we selling them here already?
have I just woke up from Mr. Peanuts Pres Carter administraton?

By: ferrarimanf355

ferrarimanf355 — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:33:59 +0000

If I remember correctly- correct me if I’m wrong- I heard through the grapevine that early Cayenne sales gave Porsche enough money to put the Carrera GT into limited production. So, the Cayenne has some good qualities there…

By: Stephan Wilkinson

Stephan Wilkinson — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:55:55 +0000

“…Porches will be gracing the world with a diesel Cayenne…”?

Repeat after me the world’s second-oldest Porsche joke:

Homeless guy knocks on a door, asks for dinner. Homeowner says if you paint the porch out back, you can have dinner, and he hands him a gallon of barn red paint.

Half hour later, homeless guy comes back and says the job is done, “But that ain’t a Porsche out back, it’s a Ferrari.”

By: rtz

rtz — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:51:53 +0000

I think the market is ready for this?

http://www.greencar.com/features/vw-235-mpg-car/

If the price was right; I’d commute to work in it.

By: psarhjinian

psarhjinian — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:37:47 +0000

blowfish,

When diesels can approach the emissions of gas engines, then we’ll let them back in.

Until then, those of us who live in urban areas are quite happy that North American cities aren’t plagued by diesels. Go to, say, Munich, which has a favourable geography for dealing with air pollution, and breathe the air. Pretty nasty, isn’t it?

Then, go to Los Angeles or Toronto, which have very _bad_ conditions for pollution, and imagine it with 70% diesel cars. Remember, diesel NOX and particulate emissions are terrible, compared to gas. Yes, even ULSD and/or “clean” diesels.

Hopefully, that little object lesson will help you understand why CARB bans the damn things. Until a diesel can meet the _minimum_ emissions that gas engines have been meeting for a decade or so, they don’t deserve to be sold on these shores.

By: Samir

Samir — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:14:59 +0000

Compete with the A7. You know, the car made by the subsidiary of your subsidiary.

Once the reckoning is over in Detroit, it will move back to Europe and finish what it started with Britain’s car industry. This time, the target will be arrogant Germans.

By: blowfish

blowfish — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:11:58 +0000

modern day oel burners are quite powerful, sadly we N America have been cursed by the Diesel Nazis, no Diesels for many many yrs.

By: Andy D

Andy D — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:58:53 +0000

Meh, early on, Porsche was building small tractors that look like gussied up Ford 8Ns. So a diesel SUV isnt that much of a stretch, ’specially if the parts are in house

By: chuckgoolsbee

chuckgoolsbee — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:23:31 +0000

The better TDI in the VW stable is the 1.9L. Mated to a truly lightweight car I bet it would astonish us with its MPG. I seem to recall the euro-only VW Polo exceeding 90 MPG with it when I was exiled to Old Blighty.

Somehow I don’t see Stuttgart coughing up an econobox however. The Cayenne though can not die soon enough.

–chuck