PaulJ, I have been a fan of Porsche since the seventies, and on testing the then new 993 in the nineties as the owner of a ten year old 911SC, the degree of reduction in driver input at "normal" B road speeds came as somewhat of a disappointment. For sure the tight feel and power of a new Porsche compared to my old and somewhat loose 911was to be expected, but it took a while for me to get over the excitement (I was much younger) of driving the new to market Porsche. The 993 was more comfortable, quieter , safer and and easier to drive, and as the result more ..err..insular, I thought it had become more of a GT than the Sports car I had known the 911 to be. With power steering, servo brakes, and a whole new suspension design front and rear it had become a very different machine from my old 911, and never more so when after a day driving around the Trossachs in the 993, I jumped back into my old SC and hit the road home, down through the box into a roundabout holding it in second and accelerating out the other side and up through the box feeling attached and at home with the machine I had become so used to... Hard to beat that degree of attachment..?

Had to sell the Porsche to advance with home improvement projects, and went back to m/cycling for fun, and when money was available for a fun car, remembering the way Porsche had advanced the 911`s engineering .... A +8 Morgan was for me the perfect machine when in search of a degree of driver Involvement.

Any modern Porsche will be somewhat insular in comparison with a Morgan, but then even Morgans of today have become a tad insular compared with their Trad brethren , which seems to have become the desire of many maturing Morganeers, in search of softer springing more comfortable seating and even air conditioning.... HFS would perhaps spinning in his grave...(-:

For sure any modern machine will have to conform with regs that Trads managed to somehow avoid for many a year, though working around the regs does increase exposure to risk, and all the fun cars listed to date and which seem to provide/require a degree of driver involvement, also seem to require the acceptance of lower levels of crash protection.

The positive effect that a Morgan can have on other folk seems to engender smiles waves and finger pointing. When I owned 911`s in the "loadsamoney" years, unfortunately the effect on others was quite the opposite, though Porsches were rare cars hereabouts, whereas these days they are almost commonplace and as such perhaps that has altered by some degree..?

For sure all the media hype available through You Tube etc has pushed the 911 as THE iconic "sports" car given all the usual hyperbole of auto journos harking back to heritage etc. etc. As you typed Peter, one needs to be travelling at ballistic speeds to feel anything like the "pilot" of any modern vehicle. At more normal road speeds, drivers can become almost passengers in the vehicle they are supposedly in control of.... I suspect it is all a matter of evolution which some accept gladly, whereas Luddites..? Perhaps display a degree of resistance.. (-:

Addendum.... just shelled out for a nine year old 991 this Morning.... scared