The Boxster, the poor man's porsche and Inferiority complex

[ChrisZang]

For all the people who respond with thoughtful and insightful posts, seems to me you're wasting our time; looks like madmods had a bad day and is deliberately trying to piss people off. I guess he's mad because nobody liked the center lock look alikes that he wrote about ;-)

[madmods]

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[Crono0001]

Originally Posted by madmods

Again, meaningless assumptions or judgments Sound so TUFF!!! lolllll

URGENT, someone get me that ego sensor wiring thing. It's somewhere between the Ricer and A**hole Role Playing pages. Top book, bottom shelf.

This.

Childish, this.

[thom4782]

Originally Posted by Crono0001

This.

Childish, this.

Agree completely

[Johnny Danger]

Poor man ? My accountant says I have more money than Davy Crockett.

[Coffinhunter]

Originally Posted by Johnny Danger

Poor man ? My accountant says I have more money than Davy Crockett.

But do you have the cool cap?

[heliguy]

Danger, love the Forrest Gump quote!

[particlewave]

Originally Posted by ChrisZang

For all the people who respond with thoughtful and insightful posts, seems to me you're wasting our time; looks like madmods had a bad day and is deliberately trying to piss people off. I guess he's mad because nobody liked the center lock look alikes that he wrote about ;-)

Hit the nail squarely on the head, lol!

Seriously madmods...fresh air and real life can work wonders.

[Perfectlap]

p.p.p.p.S.

The sports car game is one of extremely diminishing returns. For the price of a Sonata, sorry a used Sonata, you can buy my car. Then you can get into a car that's like 5X's as much money but guess what? It's not 5X's faster. It's not 5X's better on the skidpad. It will only get you 5X's the number of compliments for which it extracts 5X's the number of greenbacks from your pot of gold.

That's the beautiful thing about Poor man's Porsches, whether its a 944 or 968 or Boxster, it makes you realize how much is spoon-fed markeing hype and how much actually translates on the road. That all being said, I would daily drive an F430 Scuderia with carbon fiber seats if price was no object and I had had Benjamins to light my Cohibas. But then that's kind of imoral too.

[navair]

Yep, Boxster's suck!

Aug 17 San Diego Zone 8 AX TOP 10 TIMES: @Qualcomm , West Lot. 140 entries, built 911 hotrods, GT3's, 4 Ferrari's, Lotii, you name it...

Class, Car, Number, Name, Car, Year, Car Model

CC14 295 Kinninger, Erik 1981 911
CC11 594 Reinhardt, Martin 2007 Cayman S
CC11 504 Reinhardt, Jennifer 2007 Cayman S
CC15 95 Kinninger, Mark 1981 911
CC07 96 Vanderschuit, Carl 2006 Boxster
CC13 1004 carnevale, chad 2010 GT3
CC11 17 Young, Paul 1978 911SC
CC05 786 Zaidi, Hassan 1999 Boxster
CC10 666 Carusillo, Daniel 1976 911
CC12 514 Hill, Craig 2004 GT3

[Perfectlap]

^ Was this SCCA or the wine and cheese crowd (PCA )?

[Topless]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

^ Was this SCCA or the wine and cheese crowd (PCA )?

haha PL,

There are 3 National SCCA AX champions in that top 10. But they do still appreciate a little wine and cheese now and then.

[j.fro]

Like it or not, this post has certainly attracted some attention and put a little zing into our forum. Maybe Madmods is the Andy Kaufman of 986forum!

[madmods]

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[fusionist]

REALITY CHECK:

A two seat convertible sports car that starts at 60k is not a poor mans anything.

[Ian c]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

^ Was this SCCA or the wine and cheese crowd (PCA )?

The museum and vineyard tours aren't my thing , but don't disrespect the pca drivers please mr perfect lap .
There are some pretty Frikin awesome pca drivers

The perfect lap on Saturday was 52:31 on his 3rd timed run .
His first timed run was 54:51 and his second was 54:40 .

Pretty impressive by ANYBODIES standard .
But bear in mind his slowest first timed run , which he improved on by over 2 seconds, would have netted him 3rd place

Ps : did you ever get your Lloyd's mats sorted out ?

[Perfectlap]

Originally Posted by Ian c

The museum and vineyard tours aren't my thing , but don't disrespect the pca drivers please mr perfect lap .
There are some pretty Frikin awesome pca drivers

The perfect lap on Saturday was 52:31 on his 3rd timed run .
His first timed run was 54:51 and his second was 54:40 .

Pretty impressive by ANYBODIES standard .
But bear in mind his slowest first timed run , which he improved on by over 2 seconds, would have netted him 3rd place

Ps : did you ever get your Lloyd's mats sorted out ?

I am well aware that the same fast drivers run in SCCA, NASA, etc. as well as PCA.
But we all know that SCCA's times are far more competitive than PCA as a whole.
Around these parts we've had SCCA events where the top 7 times were separated by half a second (maybe less) if memory serves. Whereas a PCA event might have twice, or more, of that gap. I also recall one pair of SCCA drivers who consistently won or lost their class by 0.09 or less despite being completely different cars.

Other differences I've noted. PCA drivers will often show up wearing "driving shoes" and Porsche design button down shirts, whereas SCCA drivers will show up in old grungy sneakers, lots of stubble, a Tom Petty concert T-shirt, oil-stained jeans and will generally drive the wheels off whatever they can get into. Hence the wine and cheese referenfce.

p.s.
I still have those $100 red 987 matts that the vendor would not accept a refund for.
The online order form simply said Boxster matts with no clarification if they were for 987 or 986 but they insisted on charging restocking and shipping.

[ccstud17]

Originally Posted by madmods

How many of you here lack of self-worth, a doubt and uncertainty, and feeling of not measuring up to modern car standards and trends being owner of the cheapest available Porsche?!

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What happen here? I'm asking the guys who were here back in 2010/11

We call this trolling.... :troll: :troll: :troll:

[woodsman]

Originally Posted by madmods

How many of you here lack of self-worth, a doubt and uncertainty, and feeling of not measuring up to modern car standards and trends being owner of the cheapest available Porsche?!

REF: "Inferiority complex": a person who feels inferior always comes up with powerful defense mechanisms that helps him hide his feelings of inferiority from others and even from himself.

Most of these defense mechanisms are launched by the subconscious mind and so the person never becomes aware of that fact that he is using these mechanisms to hide something.

I've been browsing 986forum.com for a few days while on holiday and found an alarming new wave of this kind of behavior. Triple increase of haters in less than 1.5 years, etc... I've read as bad as fellow 986 owners taking pleasure attacking another 986 owner for no apparent reason. It's all over the place and embarrassing.

What happen here? I'm asking the guys who were here back in 2010/11

People and language are complex and you would need more than a two day scan to BEGIN to understand the dynamics involved-
nothing in this world is what it seems so just go with it and stop trying to control everyone and everything-- you are not the boss here!

[madmods]

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