How common are Boxsters in your area?

[deliriousga]

Since we're in North Georgia and the Boxster doesn't have 4WD or a gun rack, we're pretty lonely. :ah:

[kyle986driver]

it depends on where im driving. if i stay in my city i MIGHT see one, usually a 987...but if i go to the next city over (rich city) ill probably see 4 boxsters and severall other porsches.

'...As a former LAian and current SoCaler, I find it odd that LA has so many convertibles but on a relative basis, so few people drive top-down. Not sure that I could quantify it, but it was enough to notice. Have other LA people noticed this too? I guess it's because of the very real possibility that you can get hit by a stray bullet driving through some parts of town...."

Like a fabric top is going to stop a bullet? I guess it is simply the sensation of being "enclosed" that gives people a false sense of security.

[70Sixter]

I think there is another 986, a 944, and a Cayenne on the lightly populated island where I live. See more Porsches during tourist season. Usually see one or two P-cars if I drive in to Wilmington. Closest dealer is 2 hours away.

As Delerious noted, there are plenty of 4x4s with gunracks (usually holding fishing tackle and a 4' level) and dogs in the back.

All the SoCal comments took me down memory lane to my coastal San Diego days in the 70s and 80s. I gotta say the weather had something to do with going topless. Neither my 914-6 or 911 had or needed a/c. Nor did my home except during Santa Annas. And sometimes the coastal (left of I-5) fog did not clear until noon. Yes you could head east on some interesting, hilly, driver's roads and get to warm/hot weather, but cruising the PCH was soooo much fun. Top on or off.

[ohioboxster]

Boxster in my area is like seein bigfoot. People are funny they just assume they cost 100k. When I tell them I paid 20k they are like, "damn I paid more than that for my Grand Am."

[redman12]

Originally Posted by ohioboxster

Boxster in my area is like seein bigfoot. People are funny they just assume they cost 100k. When I tell them I paid 20k they are like, "damn I paid more than that for my Grand Am."

Paid for mine for 21k. Its a 98 box, 29,000 miles including hardtop What a deal.

[Marc Gelefsky]

Forget Boxsters, if I had a buck for every stinking Cayenne I see I could buy me a damn 997... geeez... They are all over these days... feh!

[mach schnell]

Originally Posted by ohioboxster

Boxster in my area is like seein bigfoot. People are funny they just assume they cost 100k. When I tell them I paid 20k they are like, "damn I paid more than that for my Grand Am."

yeah, one guy who is always giving me grief about driving a porsche or pulling into my daughter's school with her in the passenger seat in her booster seat and the top down - just the other day was talking my ear off about buying his wife a new $50k Expedition. i just rolled my eyes - people are clueless!

[blinkwatt]

Originally Posted by mach schnell

yeah, one guy who is always giving me grief about driving a porsche or pulling into my daughter's school with her in the passenger seat in her booster seat and the top down - just the other day was talking my ear off about buying his wife a new $50k Expedition. i just rolled my eyes - people are clueless!

WOW $50k for a Expedition,what a fool. Could you pull off a slighty used Cayenne S for that price?

[kabel]

Well, it seems someone opened a Boxster flood gate this weekend around here (Orlando FL). I’ve had mine now for a little over two months and have seen two or three in that time. This weekend.. each time I went out on the road I saw at least tow Porches. I know I saw at least seven (different) Boxsters this weekend.

[Brucelee]

"the other day was talking my ear off about buying his wife a new $50k Expedition"

Next week he will be jawing about how much gas costs and blaming "BIG OIL"

Clueless, yes.

[Perfectlap]

I just moved to a gated communtiy in Bergen County New Jersey.
One other Boxster a half block away, A blue Cayman, Saw a C4S parked across the street and a 928 to the other side, oh and a 968 parked right in front of my own place this weekend. But no Cayennes yet. Weird..

I only drive weekends really so I'd say I see Maybe one other Boxster a day.
I usually travel south to the Beaches or North to NYC.

911's are much more common than Boxsters and Cayennes the most common Porsche by far. As far as CaymanS so far I've only counted two in the wild.
(not including the two Ray Catena Porsche lent out during a PCA autocross).

I've had the Boxster since late 04 and still get at least two comments every time. My 986S trunk badge has prompted a few questions of "is that a Boxster or 911?"

Little kids seemed to be the most impressed they just stare like this
oh and An early 20's girl pulled over next to me in Her Acura TSX the other night and said I had the 'sexiest car around". errr thanks.