Silly. Notice the way they tried to put a GT3 look on the top of the front bumper, sad.
Porsche is very minimalist in it's exterior styling and hanging crap off them usually fails. #topcarporschepanamerastingray
Busy, busy, busy. Yum, now I can get Schwabian rice! I might be able to tolerate the rear diffuser and the front bumper cover, but the rest is pretty silly.
This is a car that should be striving for understated style and athleticism. But maybe Mike Phelps will buy a six-pack for his friends. #topcarporschepanamerastingray
Looks about par for a Porsche to me. A lot like a Boxster. Then, aside from the Tapiro, I've never seen a Porsche that would turn my head if it drove by... #jeremyclarkson
Ugh. A 500-horsepower 5-door hatchback with a Porsche badge and spiritual ancestor in the 928 has no right to be this boring. But it is. It's dull. It's Jacksonville, Florida, on wheels. Beige on taupe on gray dull. Duller than a Cayenne V6. Duller than a metallic bronze Venza. Duller than Bob Costas. Duller than a Kia Amanti or page 565 of Obama's Waterloo.
And yet I cannot ignore Porsche at its finest. Here is a finely welded appliance for a dentist whose blow-up spouse tires of taking flack from her real housewife friends for running over construction cones, Pomeranians, and Ecuadorian children with the family GL450. Here is the Juno Beach real estate developer's chariot, perfect for point-to-point condo showings without the social tax. Need a ride? America's off the high-fructose corn syrup, so slide your lean frame in. Mission accomplished. Sign the form. And the Panamera just bleeds German. It screams Mercedes with a touch of crazy. I'm ugly on purpose. It's a superiority statement with circles and arrows and a description on the back of every pricey tidbit.
I look at this spiritual black hole and must remind myself that, sure, Porsche can dial in a GT3 for a few wingnuts and sell a couple of row-your-own Boxsters, but they ignore the dentists (and bank managers and attorneys and federal loan officers) at their peril.
I understand the temptation to rely on pop culture references in humor writing. They make useful shorthand, and assuming your audience is familiar with the subjects, they can be funny.
But doesn't this seem a bit overboard? In five years, no one will be able to understand a full 20% of this article. Car and Driver drives me nuts on this issue also. #jeremyclarkson
@snapoversteer smells like: Hell, Clarkson's columns are always loaded with references to current events and British personalities that usually I've never even heard of. But that makes them more interesting to me, for some reason. #jeremyclarkson
@snapoversteer smells like: I understand what you're saying, but seriously, where's the beef? You might think it's ginchy to be so critical, but that attitude's gonna go over like New Coke. If you want to be in like Flint you've got to get down with the program, can you dig it? Oh, and balloon boy. #jeremyclarkson
@snapoversteer smells like: Don't have a cow, man. 2014's cultural archaeologists will just set GoogleArchivist to pre-2010 searching of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive and have a fine time decoding cultural references. #jeremyclarkson
Against all reason, the Panera-merica has actually grown on me. I wouldn't take it over a Rapide or QP, but it doesn't offend my sensibilities and I'd prefer it over most flavors of BMW or Benz. #jeremyclarkson
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All in all, the lipstick is helping. At least the Stingray design cues distract from the rear window hump.
"Hump...what hump?" - apologies to Igor (played by Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein)
Still, the Aston Martin Rapide is executed so much better. And it needs no lipstick...
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Strange. #topcarporschepanamerastingray
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Porsche is very minimalist in it's exterior styling and hanging crap off them usually fails. #topcarporschepanamerastingray
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This is a car that should be striving for understated style and athleticism. But maybe Mike Phelps will buy a six-pack for his friends. #topcarporschepanamerastingray
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Not a fan of the 'donk, I am. #topcarporschepanamerastingray
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And yet I cannot ignore Porsche at its finest. Here is a finely welded appliance for a dentist whose blow-up spouse tires of taking flack from her real housewife friends for running over construction cones, Pomeranians, and Ecuadorian children with the family GL450. Here is the Juno Beach real estate developer's chariot, perfect for point-to-point condo showings without the social tax. Need a ride? America's off the high-fructose corn syrup, so slide your lean frame in. Mission accomplished. Sign the form. And the Panamera just bleeds German. It screams Mercedes with a touch of crazy. I'm ugly on purpose. It's a superiority statement with circles and arrows and a description on the back of every pricey tidbit.
I look at this spiritual black hole and must remind myself that, sure, Porsche can dial in a GT3 for a few wingnuts and sell a couple of row-your-own Boxsters, but they ignore the dentists (and bank managers and attorneys and federal loan officers) at their peril.
/Times Online, USA, excerpt #jeremyclarkson
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But doesn't this seem a bit overboard? In five years, no one will be able to understand a full 20% of this article. Car and Driver drives me nuts on this issue also. #jeremyclarkson
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