what do you do when you see another box?
 

When I see a Box, which isn't often this time of year, I feel like waving or acknowledging them. Perhaps let my Sexster sniff their butts a little and make friends.



When next to an S, however, I feel a little inferior :( Like the hot girl who is just too hot for you. Though I'm not sure if they see me as much.



I guess it's almost as if I totally relate to them. I know they are happy driving their Box and they know I'm happy and it's sort of contagious.



LOL you guys will think I'm insane.

I don't think you're insane. :cheers:

I wave or flash my lights. Others always wave or flash their lights at me too. We're one big happy family full of strangers.

A quick two flash of the lights Autobahn style to any Porsche on the street. My way of saying, "good choice."

I feel obligated to catch up to any other Boxster I see on the road around here and give the driver a thumbs up. One time my dad and I were on the way to a dinner in the Boxster and this 03'+ 986 comes flying by. I being the Boxster fan,dropped it a gear and caught up to him. By the time I caught up to him I was going 100+mph,just staring at his rear diffusers and dual exhaust on his Artic Silver S from a lane to the right. Luckily no one was on the road ahead and my dad is grabbing onto anything he could and he says "Do you do this **************** everytime you see a Porsche? You know the moment you get a ticket I'm yanking you off my insurance."

Boxsters are common enough down here year-round that I honestly don't even notice them on the road that often. I've had a few wave exchanges, but generally don't make it my mission in life.

I've seen a few other Boxsters on the road so far. Waved at a couple guys... no response.

One guy in an 80s 911SC waved... one guy in a 968 nodded as he passed the other direction....


It's hit or miss around here. If you get a wave back, it's an enthusiast. If you don't, it's a rich puke that drives a Porsche just because it says Porsche on the hood.

YES...COULDN"T AGREE MORE

There are quite a few Boxsters in SoCal, I wouldn't take it personally if they didn't acknowledge back. I definitely wave on twisty roads tho, you know it's an enthusiast up there (it's even moreso when your riding a bike and wave to other bikers).

This car was regarded as a 'trophy wife car' by my friends when I first considered it, but I ignored them because it's such an amazing car overall. Sadly tho, most of the people I see driving them around my area seem to fall into that category:(

-David N.

Well, screw you, outcast :)



Maybe I just haven't noticed the Boxsters until I got my own...I'm sure in the summer they're EVERYWHERE.


But lately I've been seeing more and more of them.


Wow wouldn't it be funny if you acknowledged someone behind you by putting your spoiler up, lol

Hi,

Couldn't agree more. They're fairly common up here too.

I didn't buy my Boxster to gain entry into any particular Society or Club (nor do I think I have), I bought it for me. I could care less what others think, who sees me in it, or who I see in another one.

There's an older Black guy somewhere in my general neighborhood who owns a Guards Red 944. Every time he sees me approaching, he begins waving frantically about a block out (almost to the point of being unsafe).

I don't want to know this guy, make friends with him, invite him to Xmas Dinner, nor do I feel obligated to acknowledge him just because he owns a car from the same manufacturer as I. Frankly, he looks like a Dork doing it. But, to each his own...

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99

Good observation. I love the Porsche blip. In twisties country (which is where I mostly drive mine) I blip my lights to a Porsche and get a blip back 90% of the time (half the time, the other Porsche blips first). We both know why we're there and what we're doing. If it's a DE or a club race weekend at Limerock, there are Porsche blips galore on the country roads in the 30 mile radius around it. As I go to more PCA events I start to even recognize people and Porsches so then the blip replaces a human 'hi'. Most Porsche people I've met there are good, down-to-earth, folks.

In conclusion, if the car (Porsche), road (twisties), and purpose (joy) all meet, the blip exchange is almost guaranteed. To the extent that one, two, or all three of these conditions are not there, the blips become less likely (e.g. a congested highway on the way to work).

Z.

Jeeze... so negative.


If you didn't want to belong to a particular community, why are you on these forums?

It is a natural propensity of humans to want to belong to groups which they directly relate to. It's nothing to be ashamed of.

If I had to do the waive each time I saw a Porsche in my area, I would devolope Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. I usually waive back to the folks that waive at me. Every once and a while I initiate a waive. It doesnt bother me at all.

I can't stand when every kid in a hopped up Subaru or Honda chases me down and thinks that I want to race. I'm not interested.... save your gas money kids you'll need it for your next "ricey" mod.

By the way, 3 inches of ice on the ground, car stranded at my office.

Mnboxster, I'm not sure where you are seeing all these boxsters in the twin cities b/c I am certainly not. Pretty much don't see any over the winter and maybe one a month in the summer.

...and I do wave and actually get excited to see another one.

That's the spirit :)

That's funny. I get the same thing everytime I go out, with the new mustangs as well. There was a time where I couldn't pass them up, but it no longer bothers me to let them think they would have won or I was scared.

If they slow back down to try and egg me on, then I try to make sure they see me laughing madly at them while shaking my head. Kind of being a jerk I know, but usually it gets them to floor and drive madly away one more time which is even more amusing.

Nobody has wanted to race me yet.


Oh, just one guy in some riced out...well, I'm not sure what it used to be, but some ricey car.

I wave to pretty much any Porsche. Most people wave back or wave before I can. Nothing wrong with being friendly.

Hell yea I even point them out while my GF and I are driving around looking for a new home. I know of one 97-99 thats is very close to me that was hit by a falling tree from our last wind storm. It has been like this for 3-4 months and I will give this guy till mid summer before I bring home another stray....

:cheers:

Hi,

Enough with the Psycho-babble, it's not negative at all.

I bought the car - not the nameplate or the so-called Community. It doesn't matter one whit to me that it's a Porsche. Give me the same car, styling, handling, with a Yugo badge (or any other) on the hood and I'm there (except maybe for the China-Doll engine). Wasn't it you who pointed out that it's about the power and handling?

I've owned several equally, or even more prestigeous, Hood Badges in my time. To me a Porsche isn't a Porsche, it's just a car. There are numerous Porsche models which i have absolutely no desire to own.

Granted, the same may not be true of all others. Many (I suspect even many here) bought the car exactly because of the Community, the Nameplate, what it says to others about who they are. That they wanted to be included in such a percieved group. Also, it's been my experience (not just now, but through the years) that as a group Porsche owners tend to know a lot less about cars than owners of several other performance marques. Certainly not all, I'm not making that assertion, but many more than I've found in Jaguars, Ferraris, Lotus, maybe even Mustangs and Vettes. That's OK too, not positive or negative, just OK.

But, if you must know, I am on these forums because I chose to be. To learn from others and help others learn about these cars. Not because merely owning this car somehow obligates me to buy into other people's sense of Community...

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99

my GF used to laugh at me for wawing at someone, or if they wawe at me untill this one time we were driving around and a fellow benz owner wawed at her, shes like this is kinda cool that they notice we drive similar cars and i understand now. hehehe, good experience

i think its kool, especially since we dont drive as common of a car as a honda, i wonder if everyone that has a honda wawes at a nother honda driver :D , i think there wold be too many accidents

I give a thumbs up and wave!

Hi,

There are tons of Boxsters here in MSP. I live on River Blvd. in St. Paul and this is one of the scenic drives many sports car owners in town frequently make, I see them going past the house all the time (as well as many others). Around the Lakes too. Certainly not so many in winter, but there are 5 other Boxsters alone within a 6-block radius of my home. A Black one, Navy, 2 Arctic Silver and another Guards Red, as well as at least 10 911s of various models.

MSP is the only city in the US with the size population it has to have two Porsche Dealerships, and these existed well before the Boxster or the Cayenne were introduced. Traditionally, this area is high for Porsche Ownership, especially by Mid-Western, limited Driving Season, standards.

I suspect you haven't had yours long enough, or driven as thoroughly through town, to have noticed. See if you don't agree with me by this time next year...

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99

Most of your response is gratuitous...So I won't even respond.


You could just as well be on a forum for cars in general or sports cars in general and serve the same purpose. However, you relate to the people here because of the car you have, and for that, you joined in the community.

Keep thinking you are the exception...

Hi,

It's not at all gratuitous. You're the one who keeps putting labels to it. For your information, I do belong to several other Car Forums, both general and marque specific. In fact, I'm a moderator on two of them.

And you keep discounting the fact that my presence here was my choice, not some obligation. If you wanna wave - fine. But, don't chide me because I choose not to wave back...

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99

MNBoxster is one of those owners who doesnt waive back. :chicken:

For God's sake... if you have to psychoanalyze returning a wave, you have a lot more problems than someone wanting to feel like part of a community. It's pretty bad when you have to consciously make a decision to be unfriendly.

I see no reason to wave to other boxsters, I do wave to other motorcycle riders when im on my bike, but just is not the same in a car.

Hi,

It's not at all unfriendly. You guys are the ones who are overanalyzing things labeling those not similarly inclined to return your jesture as unfriendly.

They may not see you, may be concentrating on driving (as they should), be listening to the radio, feel no obligation to respond to a stranger, or simply not give a ******************** (you realize that this is OK too right?).

It seems it's you who have the problem with that, not the other way around. Let it go...

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99

I wave to everyone blessed with the same good taste as mine. When I walk down the street with my fiance and I see a guy with a hot girl, I wave. When I hear someone order the same entre I ordered at the restaurant, I wave. When I see someone wearing the same shoes as mine, I wave. Most of the time I get these blank stares back, but I don't care. People can be so unfriendly sometimes. :rolleyes:

Z.

I have actually gotten several waves and thumbs up from motorcycle guys...especially Harley riders!

Same here. I think it's the love for the twisties that connects.

Z.

I don't expect people to wave back. If they do... cool. If not... I could really care less. I understand not everyone see's you waving, knows why you are waving, or has time to react. But if you see someone waving, know why they are waving, and have made a conscious decision to not wave back... you ARE being unfriendly. That's like someone complimenting your car or giving you a thumbs up and purposely blowing them off. To have to justify not giving a small gesture of good-will when given the opportunity is pretty messed up in my opinion.

You just made my point. You go to other forums to serve your purpose, yet you still come here to a group of people which you have a common ground with.


No one said that it was an obligation, nor did they even suggest that.


All I am saying is not to act like you are the exception here and you aren't here for the same reason the rest of us are.

My all time favorite acknowledgment while driving my car top down (stuck in traffic Jam on The Garden State Parkway):

A guy who looked very similar to Samuel L. Jackson to boot but not driving a Boxster:

"YEAH!! THAT'S WHAT I"M MOTHER *#$&'^@'g TALKIN' ABOUT! HELL YEAH!!"

Wow... How do you respond to that one? lol

Moments like that are priceless. :D

In Iowa everyone gets the same "farmer wave"....no matter if you are driving a Porsche or John Deere or Case or...........

I wave to farmers all the time. They are always good for a wave back. Gotta love those farmers! :)

Where's Iowa? Two quick headlight flashes is good for me! ;)