1972 Porsche 914 at Willow Springs (via p914)
I love, love, love 914s in yellow.
And orange. And green.
porsche 914 (via kattmandu)
There’s something about the 914. It’s… nerdy.
Porsche 914 (via dave_7)
Maybe I need a 914 instead of a 911? Lots of vibe, and boy do 914s annoy people. (“Ugly” and “not a real Porsche”)
More than anything, great controls are the thing that is most important in a car. If the steering is great, by which I mean it feels like there is an almost direct connection between my hands, the front wheels, and the road, everything else is secondary. With the possible exception of how the gear-shift and pedals work together. Bad steering and a good gear change would be suboptimal.
A great handling car is one where the experience of driving is fun. Great handling does not mean hard suspension; great handling is sympathetic. That is, great handling is about the connection between the driver and the car.
Vibe is a bunch of things.
Vibe is how much the car annoys purists or how much it bucks current trends. Sometimes vibe is in the detail. Sometimes vibe is the gestalt.
Vibe is how mich fun you could have with the car. Or, if you’re Dr Dave, how much louting about the car let’s you get away with.
Depressingly, this short list seems to point to the Porsche 911. 911’s have amazing steering and handling and the regard that car dudes have for them would seem to indicate that they have vibe in spades.
That the 911 is the archetype of my three points is depressing because I’ve never really been a huge fan.
zOMG!
Clive Thompson, who writes one of the best blogs on the internet, has a tumblelog.
“Let us think the unthinkable. Do the undoable. Even, if time permits, eff the ineffable.” — Dirk Gently
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See ^^^
“The key difference between marketing for growth and acting like a monopolistic utility is one of posture. Do you spend time doing things to your customers or for your customers?” —
I was thinking this today in regard to a certain quasi-monopolistic entity.
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“Why does it matter whether you enjoy using something? Because it makes you happy. And it’s good to be happy.” — Jonathan Ive, in Why We Buy from Fast Company magazine.
Kevin Kelly:
Preventing errors within extremely complicated technological systems is often elusive. The more complex the system, the more complex the pattern of error. But a curious thing happens in systems that are kept relatively error free: as major errors are prevented, it gets more difficult to forecast future major errors — because so few happen!