How common are Boxsters in your area?

[Chris C Atlanta]

Still only 1 987 every 2nd or 3rd day though...seems the production and sales volumes are significantly lower than the 986 models.

About half have the top down, at least this time of the year.

[TVC15]

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.

I have always owned convertibles and always lived in L.A. and in the last 10 years the top is definately staying up more frequently when driving in town. As trafffic congestion becomes worse, it becomes really unpleasant to have the top down in the broiling sun, inching along, surrounded by fume-spewing diesel trucks and buses, and cars with their stereos blaring.
I now reserve my top-down driving for off-peak times and more pleasant and condusive environments like Santa Barbara, San Diego, Palm Springs, etc, where you can be on the (somewhat) open road with the wind in your hair.

[TriGem2k]

Originally Posted by TVC15

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.

I have always owned convertibles and always lived in L.A. and in the last 10 years the top is definately staying up more frequently when driving in town. As trafffic congestion becomes worse, it becomes really unpleasant to have the top down in the broiling sun, inching along, surrounded by fume-spewing diesel trucks and buses, and cars with their stereos blaring.
I now reserve my top-down driving for off-peak times and more pleasant and condusive environments like Santa Barbara, San Diego, Palm Springs, etc, where you can be on the (somewhat) open road with the wind in your hair.

I can second that...I always see more top of driving in covertibles then i do top down. My top usually stays up for the very reasons you stated. I like to keep my down at night...

[asnigro]

I live in the Western Suburbs of Chicago and maybe see one boxster every 2 weeks. I've never seen a Caymann on the road, I've seen one 987 on I-290 about 2 months ago, and a 996 once every 3 weeks or so. They're not that common out here in the burbs (if there are some, probably garage queens). I'd bet I see a Cayenne once a week.

[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.

[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.

[luxury1]

Originally Posted by blinkwatt

How often do you guys see Boxsters on the road in the area that you live? I recently headed to San Fransisco for part of the weekend and spotted 3 Boxsters,that more then I have seen in any one day before. Around town in Sacramento I will be lucky if I see two a week. Just wondering how common Boxsters are around the world.

They are pretty rare in Pittsburgh mainly due to the fact that we average only 59 sunny days a year. Also, our winters are pretty cold...

[jangobox]

I was just in Springfield,Missouri over the weekend. I attended a friends wedding. Out of the 4 days I was there I only saw 1 987 and 1 996. Pretty good for the middle of the country where there are hardly any nice cars around town. I probably only saw 3 BMW's and 2 Mercedes the whole time. You'd be surprised at what kind of home you can get for 400K out there.

[boxtex]

Driving around Houston, Galveston area 120 to 150 miles a day I see an average of two or three boxters a day, 911's and SUV's are by far more common.

[ephidaboost]

I have a 20 minute drive through west Houston and see about 1 boxster a day. Galleria area is the jackpot. Porsche SUV's are everywhere.. I've even had one turbo Cayenne owner try to race me..

[Iatros]

I see too many in Tampa


Wait, can you ever see too many Boxsters?