Last thing I wanna do...

[SJEFFB986]

Is speed in my Boxster..

Why risk a ticket because you know this car is a cop magnet. How many Boxsters do you see on a daily basis? Few and far between.. So why risk becomming that "$#$@! Frickin A-hole Jerk $#%#!! speeding in that Porsche!! "

Now I'm not talking about keeping up with traffic flow which these days is at least 75mph...I'm talking about doing 85-90 down the freeway. You do that in your Boxster or any Porsche for that matter and people will remember you, especially on your daily routine commute. I saw a guy this morning in a newer 911 speeding and changing lanes so quickly almost causing accidents! I will not forget that guy.

So my advice to all Porsche owners is take it easy, enjoy the car but don't act arrogant and reckless in traffic..do that in your SUV..ha ha...

[Giller]

This has been talked about many times....and if I remember correctly - most of us felt this car was no more a cop magnet than any other. Use the search to look it up.

To me - if a cop sees you speeding, he doesn't care what you drive - he's just going to give you a ticket.

[Perfectlap]

Originally Posted by Giller

This has been talked about many times....and if I remember correctly - most of us felt this car was no more a cop magnet than any other. Use the search to look it up.

To me - if a cop sees you speeding, he doesn't care what you drive - he's just going to give you a ticket.

ahhh disagree completely. I have been pulled over more times in this car than all previous cars combined. But I think it's more to do with it being a flashy roadster than because it's a Porsche. Either way, foreign expensive looking sports car. I'm sure the same would have happened had this been a Merc or Bimmer convertible. The irony is that I have been a model driver during this time yet the smokeys are always on the prowl. One guy sniffed me out, while I was observing the speed limit mind you, and followed me for five minutes on this winding road waiting for me to screw up. Then he gets on his microphone (I had the top down) and and says "Porsche guy, radar detectors make you look GUILTY...". That's where is where I wish I had my own bullhorn so I could have replied "like the V1 was what caught your attention in the first place!".
Every other time it's some other thing like the no license plate (didn't have one on the previous cars either, but only pulled over in this car for it). And recently one cop tailed me and ran my plate even though I wasn't doing anything wrong and discovered that one town had gone after my license over a single unpaid parking meter ticket resulting in a license suspension (apparently SOP here in NJ according to my lawyer). The cop claimed my tail light wasn't working when I hit the brakes but after he wrote up the ticket I drove up to the gas station up the street and checked out the lights, nothing wrong at all.

The other thread you refer to mentioned a review of tickets issued by police but not the number of times certain cars were pulled over by police. I have been pulled over ~20-30 times in this car but only about 1/4 of those resulted in an actual ticket which I of course fought and had reduced to non-points fines. That other study of only citations that were issued might give the reader the impression that I never attract the attention of police, which is most certainly not the case. So this car has actually encouraged me to observe the speed limit just to avoid the hassle. But since first going through high performance driving instruction I find that I look at the road ahead differently with more respect for the braking distances required. So I'm always looking for escape routes/buffers which means I have to maintain distance to the cars in front which of course requires one to slow down.
Someone who is constantly weaving in and out of traffic is just showing you they foolishly put too much faith in the driving ability of the other drivers he doesn't know the first thing about. Should one of these slow pokes do something unexpected, the guy in the hurry can end up teets up in the middle of highway a.ka. "the early exit". An experienced and competent driver doesn't put that kind of blind faith in drivers he doesn't know.

[Giller]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

ahhh disagree completely. I have been pulled over more times in this car than all previous cars combined. But I think it's more to do with it being a flashy roadster than because it's a Porsche. Either way, foreign expensive looking sports car. I'm sure the same would have happened had this been a Merc or Bimmer convertible. The irony is that I have been a model driver during this time yet the smokeys are always on the prowl. One guy sniffed me out, while I was observing the speed limit mind you, and followed me for five minutes on this winding road waiting for me to screw up. Then he gets on his microphone (I had the top down) and and says "Porsche guy, radar detectors make you look GUILTY...". That's where is where I wish I had my own bullhorn so I could have replied "like the V1 was what caught your attention in the first place!".
Every other time it's some other thing like the no license plate (didn't have one on the previous cars either, but only pulled over in this car for it). And recently one cop tailed me and ran my plate even though I wasn't doing anything wrong and discovered that one town had gone after my license over a single unpaid parking meter ticket resulting in a license suspension (apparently SOP here in NJ according to my lawyer). The cop claimed my tail light wasn't working when I hit the brakes but after he wrote up the ticket I drove up to the gas station up the street and checked out the lights, nothing wrong at all.

The other thread you refer to mentioned a review of tickets issued by police but not the number of times certain cars were pulled over by police. I have been pulled over ~20-30 times in this car but only about 1/4 of those resulted in an actual ticket which I of course fought and had reduced to non-points fines. That other study of only citations that were issued might give the reader the impression that I never attract the attention of police, which is most certainly not the case. So this car has actually encouraged me to observe the speed limit just to avoid the hassle. But since first going through high performance driving instruction I find that I look at the road ahead differently with more respect for the braking distances required. So I'm always looking for escape routes/buffers which means I have to maintain distance to the cars in front which of course requires one to slow down.
Someone who is constantly weaving in and out of traffic is just showing you they foolishly put too much faith in the driving ability of the other drivers he doesn't know the first thing about. Should one of these slow pokes do something unexpected, the guy in the hurry can end up teets up in the middle of highway a.ka. "the early exit". An experienced and competent driver doesn't put that kind of blind faith in drivers he doesn't know.

Unfortunately, with no scientific evidence to back up either of us, we will just have to agree (or not) to disagree. I've never been pulled over in my Box and while it is a small sample size, I have every confidence in my local and provincial police to not waste their time pulling me over unless I deserve it.
But I do appreciate everyone will have personal opinions/takes on this and different areas of the world might also influence this.

[Nine8Six]

Originally Posted by Giller

But I do appreciate everyone will have personal opinions/takes on this and different areas of the world might also influence this.

Our devoted and dearest law enforcement officers are trained to recognize abnormalities in people behaviors. That include "Driving behaviors". If you get pulled over, either you have broke traffic regulation(s), the law, or simply look really weird

Nothing to do with the car itself - guess how many boxsters, other sport cars and broken pick-up trucks an officer sees on a working shift. Does he/she care much about the make of your friggin car LOLLL go ask them

In China, speeding 50% over the advertised speed limit brings you a nice 15days holiday in jail, a criminal record, car impounded on the spot and your driving license suspended for 12months. Irresponsible jerks aren't tolerated much here... German, Italian car or not. People behave... in the large cities where the policy is enforced

Zero tolerance also - 0% alcohol. One sip, 30 days in jail. Eat that!

[CHRISP357]

For many of us, it comes down to this. Would you marry a super model and not "sample the goods" with frightening regularity? So why would you buy a 160 mph car and drive 55?

[coreseller]

Originally Posted by Giller

Unfortunately, with no scientific evidence to back up either of us, we will just have to agree (or not) to disagree. I've never been pulled over in my Box and while it is a small sample size, I have every confidence in my local and provincial police to not waste their time pulling me over unless I deserve it.
But I do appreciate everyone will have personal opinions/takes on this and different areas of the world might also influence this.

Don't worry Giller, PL is always right and always ready to compose a novel to anyone in doubt to explain why.

BTW.....I neither have been pulled over in the Porsches I have owned, not to mention several other sport / muscle cars I have owned (2 of them even red). Last two tickets were in an SUV and a station wagon lol........

[Perfectlap]

Originally Posted by Giller

Unfortunately, with no scientific evidence to back up either of us, we will just have to agree (or not) to disagree. I've never been pulled over in my Box and while it is a small sample size, I have every confidence in my local and provincial police to not waste their time pulling me over unless I deserve it.
But I do appreciate everyone will have personal opinions/takes on this and different areas of the world might also influence this.

Yes I think it's largely to do with the jurisdiction or the "police culture" of a certain area rather than the car itself. For instance in all the the times I have been stopped only one or two occurred in a big city and these were jut check points. Most times I was stopped were either in small towns, where the cops conducted themselves in a far more ill-tempered manner or I was stopped on the highway. The latter I always found interesting because cars traveling faster than me were not stopped and the tickets were always closer to 10 miles over the speed limit than 20 or 30.

[tanque55]

I go as fast as the traffic allows. In some áreas that's a good 20 over the limit. I figure if I get a ticket so should everone else. Used to tag along with people who had radar detectors, but don't see many anymore on the dash.

[tonichristi]

Thanks for the unsolicited advice, but I think we all know how to drive and don't need you to tell us how it is just because you got owned by a 911. :ah:

Get over it. Nobody cares.

[SJEFFB986]

Originally Posted by tonichristi

Thanks for the unsolicited advice, but I think we all know how to drive and don't need you to tell us how it is just because you got owned by a 911. :ah:

Get over it. Nobody cares.

Ok. Cool your jets..just voicing an opinion and observation. Point taken.

[CHRISP357]

I sure didn't buy a Porsche to drive the speed limit.

[BoxsterSteve]

Originally Posted by CHRISP357

I sure didn't buy a Porsche to drive the speed limit.

Speed limit?
Aren't those signs merely suggestions?
In 26 years of driving my old 5.0 and now the Boxster summer cars, I've been stopped only once, at a Ride check.
I get busted driving the POS daily driver...

[Porsche9]

Originally Posted by tonichristi

Thanks for the unsolicited advice, but I think we all know how to drive and don't need you to tell us how it is just because you got owned by a 911. :ah:

Get over it. Nobody cares.

Does anyone actual live in Tombstone anymore? I thought that place was just for tourist.

[Giller]

Originally Posted by tonichristi

Thanks for the unsolicited advice, but I think we all know how to drive and don't need you to tell us how it is just because you got owned by a 911. :ah:

Get over it. Nobody cares.

There's a jerk in every crowd....guess we found ours!

[rick3000]

I prefer to accelerate to the speed limit more quickly than everyone else.

[BIGJake111]

Originally Posted by SJEFFB986

So my advice to all Porsche owners is take it easy, enjoy the car but don't act arrogant and reckless in traffic..do that in your SUV..ha ha...

I would much rather see you fly past in the left lane going 130 then have some idiot texting and driving in an suv going 80, some large vehicle that will demolish anything it runs into and likely leave the at fault driver safe and sound.

Lane splitting and driving erratically is horrendous, but if you have a proper German car, why not enjoy it and drive like a respectful German would. Attentive and fast!

[Fintro11]

I usually travel about 20 over the speed limit, but our highways are not that busy and when they are you are stuck going as fast as the person infront of you.... No point swerving through lanes to try get ahead.

[kk2002s]

I actually think its cooler to be going the speed limit in a fast car. At least on the hwy.
Had a newer GT3 RS pass me on the hwy. a couple months back, he was just taking it easy. I was cruising 72 in a 65, he was doing 73
I thought that was more impressive

Speed limit signs don't make the grin


These do

[Retroman1969]

Cop didn't see it, I didn't do it.
-George Carlin