Porsche 356 Speedster v. Karmann Ghia

In August, 1972, Car & Driver magazine published this comparison of the legendary sports car and the well-regarded budget sports car.  Keep in mind that, back then, C&D was a fairly iconoclast rag, closer to "Rolling Stone" than "Motor Trend" (which, by the way, has a knack of awarding "Car of the Year" to vehicles that prove to be the most-hated, as time goes by).  One editor said C&D wasn't the best car magazine back then, it was the best magazine, period.  (It seems redundant, but necessary, to write the word "period" followed by the actual punctuation mark, right?)

I bring all this up because many people feel this was meant to be tongue-in-cheek.  Or at least, hope it's tongue-in-cheek.  Who knows... it's been debated on this VW forum, and the posters ironically seem to think the Karmann Ghia is a joke.