Porsche 911

“So in 1978, Furman introduces the Porsche nine, 28 with the stated intention that this is going to eventually replace the nine, 11.”

“And the Jaguar E-Type had just been replaced. That was the big competitor. It was another sports car that had been replaced by the XJS, which was now a V eight comfortable automatic transmission car. Mercedes-Benz did the same thing with the SL class. It went …”

“It's, the future is electric. There will be electric versions of all these cars, and probably within our not so distant lifetimes, they will be purely electric.”

“Nine 11 sales stay relatively robust throughout the seventies because it's a luxury good, right? Like just like in any recession and even like sector targeted ones like the oil crisis and the auto industry for true luxury goods, like those people, like the mar…”

“The nine 11 Is only called the nine 11 because Peugeot of all companies had a trademark in France for any car with a model name of any number, any Roman number with a zero in the middle and then any other number.”

“Now the nine 11 is kind of playing more of a luxury car, like touring car role almost, where, you know, with the special colors and the stitching and all that, and it seems like the more Porsche has focused more of its sort of true sports car efforts on those …”

“In fact, if you get into a Boxster, which was a two seater car, it has a coat hook on the back of the seat because the nine 11 had a coat hook on the back of it. You can't put a coat in the Boxster. The seat is right up against the, but they shared everything.”

“Once you create the Porsche nine 11, you should just tweak the Porsche nine 11 once every seven, eight years, and that way you can buy a nine 11 just like your grandfather bought a nine 11.”