"As soon as somebody makes a console with a mouse I can get all these damn games off my Mac and get back to work."
The ultra-rare Sony Playstation 2 had a couple of USB ports on the front (so any old USB mouse fitted, keyboards too) and even a Sony mouse accessory. Sad to say, these machines are now quite difficult to get hold of (and expensive!), so you may not have much luck tracking one down. Shame, it was a really nice machine with some fabulous games...
And just what the hell IS a sportscar? To my mind, a Subaru Impreza WRX IS, a Porsche 911 Turbo ISN'T.
Anyone can buy a Porsche and take it to a trackday, but if there's no manufacturers works team racing it, it's just another luxury coupe.
There's enough bullshit spoken about the supposed "purity" and "heritage" of marques like Porsche an Ferrari to sink a tanker, but sports cars are NOT just faster and better handling road cars, they are cars designed to COMPETE in motorSPORTS. The Porsche 911 was NEVER designed to compete, it was always a road car that was adapted to competition, and it hasn't done much outside one-make series for many years.
I have nothing against Porsche, they make extremely high quality performance cars, but to sit there and idly write off the performance products of the world's most advanced car builders (ie the Japanese car industry) is just ignorant snobbery.
You'll be telling me that you rank Harley Davidson's 'bikes above Honda's next.
My RX-7 (efini) is getting ready to go into it's cover for the last time as an everyday car. When the RX-8 arrives it'll be demoted to a "classic" and insured and polished accordingly.
The 959's history is nothing special - it was built as a homologation special that incorporated several new technologies (WHICH ARE NOW FITTED TO THE 911 TURBO) and sold at a loss. The rallye raid version of it won the Paris-Dakar - but plenty of humbler cars have done THAT. Probably the most interesting thing about the 959 was the way that it looked!
I think I'd take a current 911 Turbo - at least you can get the servicing done at reasonable rates...
Porsche have made many fine cars over the years, but Mazda have done so also. The second generation RX-7 was BETTER than the contemporary Porsche 944, and certainly more technologically innovative. The last RX-7 was one of the purest sports cars ever offered for road use, and still has a very loyal following. And, though Porsche has won Le Mans more times than anyone else, don't forget that Mazda's 787B won against all the odds too - no other manufacturer has ever won it with a ROTARY ENGINE.
Great engineering is great engineering whether done by Germans, Japanese or Botswanans.
I've just ordered an RX-8 (hooray!) but I can't abide the thought that nobhead has destroyed several examples of a truly classic car just for kicks. The really depressing thing is that the 959 is probably an inferior road car to the current generation 911 Turbo, and thus should be allowed to go to the great car museum in the sky unmolested. Shit, why doesn't dickbrain just buy himself some houses in other countries where the 959 IS legal (like French chateau, an English stately pile or a German castle?) and drive them there? What's he gonna do next, buy the Nurburgring and put speed humps on it?
What a fucking WANKER, this makes Larry Ellison's attempted purchase of an F-16 look positively reasonable.
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"As soon as somebody makes a console with a mouse I can get all these damn games off my Mac and get back to work."
The ultra-rare Sony Playstation 2 had a couple of USB ports on the front (so any old USB mouse fitted, keyboards too) and even a Sony mouse accessory. Sad to say, these machines are now quite difficult to get hold of (and expensive!), so you may not have much luck tracking one down. Shame, it was a really nice machine with some fabulous games...
And just what the hell IS a sportscar? To my mind, a Subaru Impreza WRX IS, a Porsche 911 Turbo ISN'T.
Anyone can buy a Porsche and take it to a trackday, but if there's no manufacturers works team racing it, it's just another luxury coupe.
There's enough bullshit spoken about the supposed "purity" and "heritage" of marques like Porsche an Ferrari to sink a tanker, but sports cars are NOT just faster and better handling road cars, they are cars designed to COMPETE in motorSPORTS. The Porsche 911 was NEVER designed to compete, it was always a road car that was adapted to competition, and it hasn't done much outside one-make series for many years.
I have nothing against Porsche, they make extremely high quality performance cars, but to sit there and idly write off the performance products of the world's most advanced car builders (ie the Japanese car industry) is just ignorant snobbery.
You'll be telling me that you rank Harley Davidson's 'bikes above Honda's next.
No one wants to have dirty sex with you - haven't you noticed yet?
(Hint: Star Trek is part of the reason)
Bullshit.
Apple users don't care about performance! If they did, they would have fucked off to Wintel years ago.
And what does THAT have to do with the price of fish?
My RX-7 (efini) is getting ready to go into it's cover for the last time as an everyday car. When the RX-8 arrives it'll be demoted to a "classic" and insured and polished accordingly.
Mazda IS an established and respected sportscar manufacturer.
I don't know what a "ricer" is, but how many WRC rounds have Porsche EVER won? How many have Japanese manufacturers won?
Tell me again about SPORTS cars?
I think you'll find that the 959 had a 2.85Litre flat 6.
Anyway, the Carrera GT is MID-ENGINED - that alone makes up for any weight advantage that the 959 MIGHT have.
Really small ones like Liechtenstein?
So the 962 wasn't a real Porsche?
Nor the 928?
Nor the Boxster?
Nor the 968?
Interesting...
Idiot.
It's crap like that that makes me want to move back to the 'states and drive around in an Evo VII ZERO FIGHTER finding idiots to burn off.
When? Who knows? Mazda UK STILL don't have them (and all it takes is a 1000 deposit to secure one...).
No test drive, but I could always sell it on at delivery mileage if it's anything less than the GREAT car we're all expecting it to be.
I love Angle Grinder Man. I once pushed over the Suzuki bread van of some bastard who'd clamped my lovely Citroen BX GTi (what a great car!).
Very true.
The saddest part of 911 snobbery is that it killed the BEST Porsche (and best GT) EVER, the 928.
The 959's history is nothing special - it was built as a homologation special that incorporated several new technologies (WHICH ARE NOW FITTED TO THE 911 TURBO) and sold at a loss. The rallye raid version of it won the Paris-Dakar - but plenty of humbler cars have done THAT. Probably the most interesting thing about the 959 was the way that it looked!
I think I'd take a current 911 Turbo - at least you can get the servicing done at reasonable rates...
No he shouldn't.
Porsche have made many fine cars over the years, but Mazda have done so also. The second generation RX-7 was BETTER than the contemporary Porsche 944, and certainly more technologically innovative. The last RX-7 was one of the purest sports cars ever offered for road use, and still has a very loyal following. And, though Porsche has won Le Mans more times than anyone else, don't forget that Mazda's 787B won against all the odds too - no other manufacturer has ever won it with a ROTARY ENGINE.
Great engineering is great engineering whether done by Germans, Japanese or Botswanans.
I've just ordered an RX-8 (hooray!) but I can't abide the thought that nobhead has destroyed several examples of a truly classic car just for kicks. The really depressing thing is that the 959 is probably an inferior road car to the current generation 911 Turbo, and thus should be allowed to go to the great car museum in the sky unmolested. Shit, why doesn't dickbrain just buy himself some houses in other countries where the 959 IS legal (like French chateau, an English stately pile or a German castle?) and drive them there? What's he gonna do next, buy the Nurburgring and put speed humps on it?
What a fucking WANKER, this makes Larry Ellison's attempted purchase of an F-16 look positively reasonable.
funny?
Are you some kind of fucking idiot savant?
"--- its to bad about the monkey, I kinda liked them"
It's too bad about the monkey, I kinda liked them.
Didn't you go to fucking school?
So you're a slave to tipping culture, and you're encouraging others to be so too. Well, misery DOES love company.
The same as you get on one of them, of course.
Needless to say, I had the last laugh.
What do you mean?
"Bouncing Back" Is still available from many good bookshops.
Nope, apparently if you prise the heatsink off a 1.42Ghz Macs CPU, it is clearly marked as a 1.42 part.