Originally Posted by
Bandera
If you've never driven a 911 or put miles on a Brooks saddle you wouldn't know what you were posting about.
One either has direct experience of a product or not, pretty simple.
The last 911 that I drove was a '72 911E. I found it to be a significant improvement in every way over the 356B and not particularly flawed, idiosyncratic surely. Modern 911s are beyond my ken but I'd love to give one a run on the Hill Country roads I drive in my roadster.
Any serious comparison of the development process of items as different as a simple bicycle seat and a complex sports car strikes me as so nebulous as to be meaningless. Apple are more comparable to oranges.
-Bandera
I don't share that perspective. I mean, if a NASA engineer or an F1 engineer, for example, can help build a space shuttle or a race car yet never pilot one, I still think they are pretty qualified to speak about them! No, they wouldn't be the go-to guys for input on what it's like to pilot one, but in the same sense, where not here talking about what it's like to sit on a Brooks or in a 911, either.