Porsche pecking order - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

gmboxster · 10-13-2014, 11:19 AM

I never understood this "pecking order" mentality. Who cares ? Who cares what some other Porsche owner thinks of my car ? I mean, seriously I could care less than Less. I like my car and that's all that matters. With the 1998 Boxster 2.5 liter, 201HP engine I probably have 1 of the "weakest" Porsches around but it handles like a dream and that's perfectly fine with me. If someone wants to give me a Boxster S with 250HP I would take it with a smile but until that day I will be just fine.

Chuck W. · 10-13-2014, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by gmboxster

I never understood this "pecking order" mentality. Who cares ?

Exactly. Enjoy what you have!

pony13ca · 10-13-2014, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by gmboxster

I never understood this "pecking order" mentality. Who cares ? Who cares what some other Porsche owner thinks of my car ? I mean, seriously I could care less than Less. I like my car and that's all that matters. With the 1998 Boxster 2.5 liter, 201HP engine I probably have 1 of the "weakest" Porsches around but it handles like a dream and that's perfectly fine with me. If someone wants to give me a Boxster S with 250HP I would take it with a smile but until that day I will be just fine.

+1 Couldn't agree more!! What someone else thinks of my car never matters to me!! However I haven't had a negative word said to me about my S.

Porsche9 · 10-13-2014, 12:23 PM

Porsche's marketing department has done a great job in creating an artifical pecking order that only the foolish fall for. Especially when it comes to the Boxster/Cayman/Carrera. These three cars have more in common then not. Just look at the part numbers and the fact that most of the water cooled Carrera's orginal development/engineering work came out of the Boxster.

JayG · 10-13-2014, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by gmboxster

I never understood this "pecking order" mentality. Who cares ? Who cares what some other Porsche owner thinks of my car ? I mean, seriously I could care less than Less. I like my car and that's all that matters. With the 1998 Boxster 2.5 liter, 201HP engine I probably have 1 of the "weakest" Porsches around but it handles like a dream and that's perfectly fine with me. If someone wants to give me a Boxster S with 250HP I would take it with a smile but until that day I will be just fine.

+1 Yes! I love my Boxster and really don't care what others think.

j.fro · 10-13-2014, 01:57 PM

Funny how things go. 912s were looked down on for a while and look where they are now. 914s were damn near ostracized unless you were an autocrosser and today they are fetching $$& for good ones. Our 986s will have their day....

coreseller · 10-13-2014, 02:07 PM

Maybe he was just having a bit of fun with you, but then again maybe he's just an ass-clown. As others have stated why be concerned with what anyone else thinks of your car? Either way, unfortunately your response to Mr. 996 just perpetuated a stereotype.

Porsche9 · 10-13-2014, 02:07 PM

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Funny how things go. 912s were looked down on for a while and look where they are now. 914s were damn near ostracized unless you were an autocrosser and today they are fetching $$& for good ones. Our 986s will have their day....

Huge plus 1 on this. Just based on how most people react to mine I have no doubt. Just the other day was going down the my street and about 12 kids halted their game of ball and just watched the car drive by doing a full 180 with the heads while giving approving nods. Same thing I did when I was their age and these are still the same cars I lust after and in some cases have owned (the 1989 C4 that ripped my buddy's brand new 5.0 Mustang while I was in the passenger saying "Do you have the pedal to the floor").

Perfectlap · 10-13-2014, 02:11 PM

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I never understood this "pecking order" mentality. Who cares ? Who cares what some other Porsche owner thinks of my car ? I mean, seriously I could care less than Less..

It's basically something that evolved in the 1980's, really got going in the 1990's.
Even though Porsche as a prestigious sports car brand is much older than that. It really boils down to guys who learned to drive in the 70's and 80's. They see Porsche in the post 1964 era, or the Porsche = Carrera mentality. The clever guys at Porsche latched onto this generational change and made sure to milk it by upselling the Carrera and marketing all their other Porsches as "stepping stone" cars.

I really can't think of another brand that is so effective at getting its fans to believe all of their marketing. Like for example the Cayman being a better handling car than the Boxster. Porsche sold this idea at the time of the Cayman launch and there have really been few instances of journalists or blogger taking this marketing idea to task as it eventually becomes the common belief. For instance most people were surprised when Johannes Van Overbeek proved that the Boxster was the more nimble car in an Excellence Magazine piece. Meanwhile folks who know that the quickest cars are those with the most neutral balance and least amount of weight on top, were not at all surprised. Which tells us that we will see the 981 Cayman GT4 climb up the "pecking order" but similar power and weight trimming treatment will probably not be given to the 981 Boxster. Or maybe Porsche will surprise me...

Slate 01 · 10-13-2014, 04:36 PM

Farging Iceholes ALWAYS need to be put in their place, of course it is a dark, stinky place with no sunshine. Right on OP, thank you for not taking that shiite from anyone. BRAVO!

coreseller · 10-13-2014, 05:49 PM

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Farging Iceholes ALWAYS need to be put in their place, of course it is a dark, stinky place with no sunshine. Right on OP, thank you for not taking that shiite from anyone. BRAVO!

husker boxster · 10-13-2014, 06:15 PM

At Parade I took a pic of CAS' 987. How could anyone dislike it?

Hope you don't mind me posting pics of your car. I'll take it down if you don't.

About 7 yrs ago I had driven my 986S to Chicago for a Cubs game. I got there early and scored a great parking spot. I was standing a car away when a group of teens walked by - 2 guys & 2 girls. One of the guys is really looking at my car. The other guy says "It's not a real Porsche, it's just a Boxster". I felt like saying to him that I was about to toss you the keys, but since you don't think it's a Porsche, I'm not going to waste your time. But I kept quiet and left him with his misguided perceptions of Porsches.

seningen · 10-13-2014, 09:54 PM

Divide fun by cost and see what the pecking order looks like.

My Box S on track is a blast to drive.

Last DE I was harrassing a 991. He could out drag me on the straights but when he reluctantly gave me a point by, he commented he didn't realize how much he was holding me back when he told me he had no chance to keep up beyond the first set of corners.

Mike