Most attention is fairly positive, mostly admiring, and sometimes I'll get politely asked about it by people...though usually this latter part happens when someone sees me loading things into both of the spots where the engine should be and wondering where it is. As common as I feel they are, I guess some people don't see them too terribly often.
I occasionally get people who just know it's a Porsche and assume it's some sort of 911 (like people who think a Glock is a type of pistol rather than a brand, or that every assault rifle is an AK-47), and get the WHOA!
look because it's parked in a lot amongst run-of-the-mill Subarus, Hondas, Toyotas, Chevys, and such.
Some of my co-workers wonder how the hell I can afford the thing, and at this point I'm tired of educating them on how these things don't all cost $60k, so I just let them think it costs whatever it costs in their minds, though this also does tend to get some people acting a bit jealous and stupid, so I am careful about who learns about it belonging to me. The co-workers who are my friends are car enthusiasts who know better and don't treat the car like it's a Countach 5000QV from a 1980s pinup.
And as quiet and understated as the early base cars are, some people seem to think it's some crazy-nasty powerhouse when I'm sitting at lights, and rev at me in their crappy pieces of crap (or maybe they realize that it really isn't fast at all and just want to claim that they beat a Porsche
). And I'm not talking from the high Porsche throne...these cars are the type where money's poured into making it "fast" but they don't have any left over for paint so it stays primer black/gray/white for years...and it's still not all that fast. I had a loser hanging out of the passenger window of his friend's Fast-and-Furious'd Civic trying to get my attention at a light because (read with oozing sarcasm) "Damn, that thing's fast! 'Scuse me...'scuse me!"
(to be fair, it
was painted, but he had "speed holes" in his rear bumper and all sorts of other stuff that cost more than the car itself or was just plain useless so that really destroys his shot at fairness)
Had a guy in front of me at a light scoping my car out in all of the mirrors of his Corolla (my DD car) and could see him say "nice". If he only knew less than a minute later my CEL was about to come on.
Overall though, people seem to be positive and don't really take issue with a younger gentleman driving a nice car and not being a complete douchebag about his existence.
1999 Porsche 986 Boxster
'99 986 Baton Rouge, LA
Sancha
Boxster
2006 Porsche Boxster 987
Hybrid Mode
