European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 03, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Columns endless summer photo by pm sent Vertier porsche comes up with a Way to Fly the roads by John Windrow staff columnist the porsche people arc trying to kill me. I Don t know How my insignificant demise fits into their corporate schemes but they re after me and i feel pretty Down about it. They re not so crude and obvious As to dispatch a team of goons to shoot Stab Poison or drop a Safe on me from a tall building. They re More Subtle. What they be done is manufacture and sell 200 cars known As porsche 959s. Jucy probably wanted to Call it porsche icbms but that name was taken porsche guarantees that the 959 will Crank Down the autobahn at 200 Mph. That As our car Corner editor excitedly tells me is faster than a formula one racing  i of course am not going to run out and plop Down $145,000 for the our wheel drive 450 horsepower Highway rocket. Thai s about $140,000 Over my car budget and besides i know that i m not smart enough or Brave enough to drive one. But 200 people somewhere in Central Europe were Rich enough smart enough and Brave enough to Purchase a 959. They re out Here somewhere now dreaming of passing bows and Mercedes that Pov " Down the left Lane at Only 140 Mph. So one of these Days i la be limping along in my Polo at the absurdly la Gardly clip of say 80 Mph and i will he disintegrated by a 959 thai has spun out trying to pass a Bow on two wheels on the far left shoulder of the autobahn. I m certain thai a nato armoured Convoy will be involved probe july directly ahead of me. There Are cruder deaths but it will be dramatic. The fireball will probably he visible from several nations. I Only ask that a Small Bronze plaque be placed beside the Crater left by the explosion. I Well up to the Frankfurt Auto show recently to gel a Good look at he 959. Morbid curiosity i guess. I had to ride in a bus through a parking lot that contained about 250,000 everyday cars to go to the dream cars. Inside the exhibition Hall there were Peugeot a Talbot bows Fords Renalls Saab Volvo Daimler benzes audis jaguars opels Rolls royces sodas Alfa Romeos Mancias fits Toyota and Nissan not to mention the holy porsche 959. The gods played one of their hilarious Litile Jukes