How common are Boxsters in your area?

[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.