How to feel instantly inferior in your Boxster - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

djomlas · 03-20-2007, 11:39 AM

funny thing you mention that.
me and my friend were going to get his new car, we were in his 540i
we were going down south in IL
as soon as we kinda got out of chicago area, EVERYONE moved out of the way as we sped by (i will not mention any speeds, but he clearly want following the speed limit by any means). it was pretty neat, we were just passing everyyyyone, we were in far left lane, and everyone just moved over as they saw us approaching, i tought that was cool.
then on the way back you can totally see were getting close to chicago as more and more people are going like 40 in left lane on a freaking highway.
driving in chicago is the most frustrating thing ever, so many idiots on roads

porscheracer · 03-21-2007, 10:07 AM

If you can drive in NYC you can drive anywhere... try driving midtown during rush hour...better yet check out time square at 7 pm...

Help my autox skills...

Jump · 03-21-2007, 03:55 PM

To make Porscheracer feel better I’ll provide more details. I had pulled off the highway to swing through a park quickly to check out the lake. At the stop sign as I was pulling back onto the highway he came over a hill on the road opposite of me and flashed his lights at me. I was already into the turn too far for me to flash back. He pulls in behind me but kept a respectful distance back. If anything, he fell back as a pushed it a little harder through the turns. 3/4s of a mile later he pulled off onto another side road. Nothing but respect from both drivers.

ddb · 03-22-2007, 04:42 PM

Speaking of feeling inferior in your Boxster....

I thought you guys and gals would enjoy this picture.

ddb

Perfectlap · 03-22-2007, 05:23 PM

well if it makes you feel better I would feel much much safer in our Boxsters than an all carbon fiber tub on the open road. One Rennlister died a year ago in the CGT hitting the wall at Fontana. I'm not sure what the investigation by Porsche yielded, probably not very much because the families of deceased are now or were suing the last time I checked. What struck me at the time of the tragedy was that the CGT was designed to be an LMP racer, not a road car yet the drivers had no chance in a pretty straight forward high speed crash. I'm not a racing car designer but I think I've seen a dozen carbon fiber racing cars desintegrate and yet the driver just walked out with only a scratch.
I never really heard a detailed description of why the car wasn't redesigned once the LMP rules changed, instead Porsche just scrapped the whole racing project and put the cars on the road for $500K. And of course they recently pulled the plug on the Carrera GT altogether.

ebarker9 · 03-23-2007, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Perfectlap

well if it makes you feel better I would feel much much safer in our Boxsters than an all carbon fiber tub on the open road. One Rennlister died a year ago in the CGT hitting the wall at Fontana. I'm not sure what the investigation by Porsche yielded, probably not very much because the families of deceased are now or were suing the last time I checked. What struck me at the time of the tragedy was that the CGT was designed to be an LMP racer, not a road car yet the drivers had no chance in a pretty straight forward high speed crash. I'm not a racing car designer but I think I've seen a dozen carbon fiber racing cars desintegrate and yet the driver just walked out with only a scratch.

That crash was at well over 100mph (some reports have it as high as 150mph) into a concrete retaining wall. The shots that I saw of the car showed that it held together extremely well. I can't imagine the result being much different in any other road car. With a full-on race harness and HANS setup, perhaps things would have turned out differently, but even in racing you rarely see a direct impact at speeds that high.