is this what idiots think of us?

[7th gear]

Originally Posted by Bavarian Motorist

Sometimes I get crap about my car or I hear crap from other "car people". Typical stereotypes and generalizations range from, "You can't afford a real Porsche" to "Your car is a girl car."

I usually ignore the critics because I know I know ten times as much as them about cars and I can't possibly respect an ignorant opinion. That's like if a blind man told me my shirt was ugly and I went and changed it because of his opinion.


Here's one example I witnessed today...


This was taken from a forum I use a lot, my350z.com, which is a community for Nissan 350Z owners.





I can't get over the utter stupidity and ignorance displayed here. I don't even need to explain why.

This isn't the first example I've seen.


Do you guys get crap also? From what specific groups do you hear it from? How do you respond? BMW communities have never spoken a word other than to compliment me.


This type of ignorance actually upsets me.



If you want to read the thread, http://www.my350z.com/forum/showthread.php?t=234467&page=13



Thanks for letting me rant, guys.

haven't heard that kind of krap ... yet. i guess i'll try to sum that conversation up by telling them 'every car on the road will get from point a to b, it's our egos & the sparkle of the car that get in the way' because it really doesn't matter?!?!? we all got what we wanted and from what i've mostly read here, we're all happy.

[Uncle Bob]

OK, I'll confess....I bought my Boxster to impress someone, my wife! When I take the top down and head out on a warm Spring day (hey, just around the calendar!) she is impressed. BTW, she never has questioned my manhood or asked "why didn't you get a 350Z?" So I guess it works.

Actually, I have, on occasion, sensed folks were mildly annoyed by the mere presence of the car. Purists never scoff and others aren't worth paying attention to rebuff. Even if someone gave me the car, I wouldn't put up with any abuse for driving it!

[silverboxter]

Quick, answer this question....WWJD? haha! What would James Dean drive! He would drive the Boxster...and he ain't no girly-man! ; )

[unklekraker]

Originally Posted by silverboxter

Quick, answer this question....WWJD? haha! What would James Dean drive! He would drive the Boxster...and he ain't no girly-man! ; )

good one, silver!

[Grizzly]

Originally Posted by silverboxter

Quick, answer this question....WWJD? haha! What would James Dean drive! He would drive the Boxster...and he ain't no girly-man! ; )

Uuuuummmm...you might want to do a little research on James Dean.

Now that times have changed and diverse lifestyles are largely accepted, Mr. Dean might just as easily be spotted cruising Mulholland in a pink Fiero as he would a 550 Spyder. He would certainly help the argument about the Boxster being a girly man's car a lot more than he would refute it.

"...One of his few documented homosexual relationships was with Rogers Brackett, the sophisticated, 35-year-old radio director of a prestigious advertising agency, whom Dean met in the summer of 1951 while working as a parking attendant at CBS...Just two weeks after they met, Dean began living with Brackett in his Hollywood flat...

...While in New York, Dean began dating a singer-dancer named Elizabeth "Dizzy" Sheridan, who seems to have been his only serious girlfriend; he even asked her to marry him. Dean confided in Sheridan about the relationship with Brackett and also said that he planned to end it. "He did not want to be gay," Sheridan recalled years later - a telling statement that, coupled with the fact that he continued seeing Brackett, hints at a possible practical side to Dean's romantic involvement with Sheridan. Being openly (or even too suggestively) gay would have quickly ended his career at that time, when gay actors like Rock Hudson were being forced into sham marriages to protect their image.

It's not surprising, then, that when Dean's movie career began to take off, he started appearing at Hollywood events with pretty starlets on his arm. The press -and his studio, Warner Brothers - made much of his supposedly passionate love affair with the lovely Italian-born Pier Angeli, one of the stars of The Silver Chalice. But though Dean's colleagues and friends maintained that he was heartbroken when Angeli decided to marry singer Vic Damone, Dean's relationship with Angeli was, she herself later said, "all so innocent." Kazan once told an interviewer that he "did not think Jimmy was a very effective lover with women."

Another of Dean's documented gay relationships was with Jack Simmons, a young actor who, by all accounts, was devoted to him. Because the attachment was kept quietly in the background - Dean virtually lived with Simmons while filming Rebel Without a Cause but had his own apartment - studio officials did not seem to mind. That may have also been because the Warner publicity machine was busily getting articles like "The Dean I've Dated," by Lori Nelson, into fan magazines..."

Today, news of a gay actor would nary raise an eyebrow, but in the 50's??? Katy bar the door!!!

[motoadve]

Last week I took for a commute drive a professional semi retired car racer, who has raced Porsches for more than 20 years.
My Porsche is the 05 base, with Triptronic.
He said he thought the Boxster was the best sports car in the world, and who ever said is not a Porsche, they havent driven one.

Then I said , but mine is just a base and a Triptronic, and he says in a windy road a manual will not pull away , not even an S.
The Boxster is all about handling.

[Bavarian Motorist]

Originally Posted by motoadve

Last week I took for a commute drive a professional semi retired car racer, who has raced Porsches for more than 20 years.
My Porsche is the 05 base, with Triptronic.
He said he thought the Boxster was the best sports car in the world, and who ever said is not a Porsche, they havent driven one.

Then I said , but mine is just a base and a Triptronic, and he says in a windy road a manual will not pull away , not even an S.
The Boxster is all about handling.

Why won't a manual pull away in a windy road?

[Marc Gelefsky]

Originally Posted by motoadve

Last week I took for a commute drive a professional semi retired car racer, who has raced Porsches for more than 20 years.
My Porsche is the 05 base, with Triptronic.
He said he thought the Boxster was the best sports car in the world, and who ever said is not a Porsche, they havent driven one.

Then I said , but mine is just a base and a Triptronic, and he says in a windy road a manual will not pull away , not even an S.
The Boxster is all about handling.

Fer gods sake its TIPtronic!