Air cooled engines can not meet the smog laws, of course they had to redesign it.
I think you mean the 914. IIRC, the 924, 928 and 958 all came out about the same time. The 924 was a sporty car (looked like a sports car, but without the performance), the 928 was the mainstream front engined sports car, and the 958 was the Ferrari killer. Maybe the 958 never actually hit the streets (it didn't in the US). Mr Porsche was the developer of the Volkswagon. The early Porsches had souped up VW engines in them. Volkswagon bought out Porsche in the 60's, maybe it has been spun off again (I have not been keeping up). -- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- Adam Maas wrote: > Although Volkswagen and Porsche are closely connected, they are > independant companies. Volkswagen's top end model back then was the > Volkwagen not the 958 (I think you might be referring to the 928 here? > The original front-engine Porsche design, not to be confused with the > 924 which was designed later but produced earlier and was riginally > intended as a VW design). > > You should also note that the current 911 platform dates back to only > 1997 and was heavily updated a few years ago. The original 911 platform > was built for decades, but ended its run in 1998 after being replaced by > a completely different, water-cooled platform (the 996, replaced by the > 997 which is merely an evolutionary step from the 996). > > I'm not sure what VW sedan you're referring to as Porsche doesn't > currently make a sedan. They have 2 mid-engine sportscars (the Cayman > and Boxster) one rear engine sportscar (the 911), a Supercar (Carrera > GT) and the SUV they developed with Audi/VW (the Touareg/Cayenne), which > is probably more Porsche than VW. Porsche is currently floating a sedan > concept though, as a 928 follow-on. > > The only Volkswagen Porsche ever made was the 924, which was originally > designed for Volkswagen, but ended up being produced as a Porsche after > VW decided not to go into production and Porsche bought-back the design. > > -Adam > > > > graywolf wrote: >> I believe Volkswagon's top of the line model was the Porsche 958. >> However I just checked the website and notice that except for the SUV >> and a souped up VW sedan, Porsche no longer makes a front engined car. >> However they still make several versions of the 911. If Pentax operated >> like that there would be 6 versions of the Spotmatic in the current catalog. >> > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
