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Originally Posted by Dave
I wonder how a more modern 911 would react to that treatment?
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Wouldn’t start with the heater removed?
(I’ve no idea, really.)
I love air-cooled 911s too, Matsu. I liked them when I was ten years old, and I still like them, mostly for the reasons you list.
Xaqtly, almost all the estates/wagons in Europe are lumbering diesels. There are a few exceptions (still diesel, but fast), but people who buy them typically need the space for dogs, kids, wetsuits, etc. I suppose Americans prefer SUVs for those things, since fuel is cheaper in America. In any case, they’re rarely bought for fun, so they rarely have fun engines.
An extreme example was the first diesel car my family had, a seven-seat Renault 21 Savanna estate. This great hearse of a thing had a 1.9-litre naturally aspirated diesel that made 60 horsepower on a cold day, took darned near half an hour to warm up, and enveloped the neighbourhood in smoke in the meantime. The engine was unburstable—it sounded like something from a trawler—but the bodywork was flimsy, and the handling was dominated by the usual massive understeer associated with diesel estates.
They’re a bit better today, I’m sure.