Sanity Check - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

NickCats · 09-20-2006, 04:56 AM

thanks, bmussatti !

z12358 · 09-20-2006, 05:52 AM

Nick, I would say couple of times a night may be a tad on the obsessive side. I'm with bmuss on this one: focus.

I only see my car on weekends so it always looks like it just came out of the wrapper after a week's pause. Anticipation and delayed gratification works for me, I guess.

It's a fact that I've been devoting big chunks of my free time (including this forum) to the new black beauty in my life so I'm starting to get slight vibes of jealousy about the Box from my fiance. It can turn into an intricate triangle if you're not careful.

Perfectlap · 09-20-2006, 06:22 AM

Order snow tires if you don't have some already. I just got Pirelli Snow Sports (Porsche approved) and the guy at the tire rack says they get more expensive as the supply starts to decrease. I've been in rain that quickly turned into snow halfway into my drive.

Anyhoo that "I have my very own Porsche" never really goes away. I've known guys who have owned many Porsches over the years and they still look up to the brand and the heritage (if not the company run by greedy arrogant bastards..ahem as many say). They don't really have that feeling for other brands except for maybe Ferrari (the few who could afford to maintain such a car).

Before I had the Boxster I did allot of Autocrossing with the POrsche Club (the wine and cheese crowd as I called them back then) and I got very very used to seeing all manner of Porsches 911, 914, Boxster. It became very common place for me so when I got mine it didn't seem so "out this world dream come true" situation. But then the comments started flooding in. I would bump into someone I hadn't spoken into in years and they said "I heard you have Porsche now"

About a million "you have my dream car" comments and even one nice blonde girl pulled over when I was pulling out of a parking spot to tell me "I just want to say you have the sexiest car".
The funny thing is I never considered it a dream car. Just a good alternative to an S2000, MazdaSpeed Turbo Miata or Z4. Dream car for me would be a Maserati Gran Sport Coupe in pearl white or a Ferrari 360 in Yellow.

p.s.
Growing up I wanted a Black Trans Am with the stupid bird on the hood like in the movie "Smokey and The Bandit" or a silver 928 (Scarface).

NickCats · 09-20-2006, 07:53 AM

Ha ! I'm not the only one :

http://986forum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5288

pecivil · 09-20-2006, 08:09 AM

yep do the same thing and wifey thinks its crazy.....and I have had it 2 years!!, but it is my first Porsche. I too dreamed all my life about getting one. And with the engine swap happening, in the shop for the 2nd week now I am jonesing for her. I may have to drop by the shop (again) to make sure shes ok.

maybe in a couple of years I will get a 95 928 gts and scratch another longtime car "itch".

Porsche: There is no substitute!!

:dance:

Ronzi · 09-20-2006, 08:11 AM

It wears off after a while.
Ultimately, it's just a car.

Just like there is a pecking order in the overall sports car world, there is a pecking order within the Porsche world ... and in terms of currently available models, the Boxster is at the bottom of it. So there's no reason to feel TOO impressed with yourself for owning one.

Feel better now?

Perfectlap · 09-20-2006, 08:22 AM

jeez...your a wet blanket.

I'm assuming your being facetious but I've never understood this Boxster 'entry level' Porsche talk. Its the roadster of the Porsche brand. Parts and hourly labor are just as expensive as its rear engined brother. The funny thing is that even Porsche promotes this 'entry level' nonsense with its own Factory Race Car drivers. I read an interview a few years back with Patrick Long who had just become an apprentice Factory driver and he said that that he and the other newbies got Boxsters while the full time factory drivers got 911's. He said something like "just to remind us we hadn't moved **UP** in the food chain"
My immediate response was so they promote you by giving you lesser handling sports car??

At more than $50,000.00 There is nothing entry level about any car with that price tag. Even repeating that is buying into the mental brain washing Porsche wants you to believe to justify spending $80-$100K on a rear engine car simply not worth its price in terms of performance. $50K is a heck of allot of dough for a car even a sports car, a luxury indeed.

Ronzi · 09-20-2006, 08:31 AM

Hey, fifty years from now we may all be swaggering around congratulating ourselves for having the perspecacity for buying the successor to the Speedster.
When the top goes down, the price goes up ... but maybe not right away.

Adam · 09-25-2006, 09:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ronzi

It wears off after a while.
Ultimately, it's just a car.

Just like there is a pecking order in the overall sports car world, there is a pecking order within the Porsche world ... and in terms of currently available models, the Boxster is at the bottom of it. So there's no reason to feel TOO impressed with yourself for owning one.

Feel better now?

So true, you can even break it down further as to say there is a "pecking order" not only in the Porsche brand but in the boxster lineup as well. 2.5's bring up the rear,then the 2.7's and 3.2's and now the new 3.4's being the big swinging dicks on the block in boxsterdom.

Perfectlap · 09-26-2006, 07:30 AM

That pecking order stuff is all your in head. All these 200 HP ''neighbohrhood" engines really are all tiny. And the non-gt2/gt3/gt4 911's aren't all that big for their price tags either. More weight requires more power and each pcar has its purpose. GT3 for track, SUV to haul **************** you don't need, Boxster for a roadster experience, C4 for the cold weather and those who like understeer, and CarreraGT for guys who have to have exotics they can't keep from spinning.

Allot of bull**************** goes into the Porsche mystique. They are all different animals. A giraffe is no more a safari animal than a zebra. There are no lesser porsches, a 2.5 has less power but its not as fat as the later 986's. I'd rather take a drive a nice restored 914 with a lawnmower engine than a 997 any day.

NickCats · 09-26-2006, 08:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adam

So true, you can even break it down further as to say there is a "pecking order" not only in the Porsche brand but in the boxster lineup as well. 2.5's bring up the rear,then the 2.7's and 3.2's and now the new 3.4's being the big swinging dicks on the block in boxsterdom.

Hey now !

As a 2.5 owner, I'm a little offended