Are Porsches the douchiest of cars?

In most cases, I remain correct. People may not even realize their motivations for buying an expensive car -- that's how unaware and unexamined they are.

belial wrote:

In most cases, I remain correct. People may not even realize their motivations for buying an expensive car -- that's how unaware and unexamined they are.

No, what we know it what it says about yourself, the unexamined one. Without a clue, without a doubt.

You sound like Trump crying out "no collusion."

belial wrote:

In most cases, I remain correct. People may not even realize their motivations for buying an expensive car -- that's how unaware and unexamined they are.

True, same goes for the owner of a Leaf or a Prius.

Racket wrote:

Sure, I'll explain it for you. It means you're a 911 wannabe but since you can't actually afford one, you decided to get a Cayman (or a Boxster, or really any non 911) to fool yourself and others into thinking you've made it. You haven't, and your insistence that "it's actually great and handles really well! It's basically a 911!" is right on queue with all the other posers who couldn't afford a 911.

This exposes you. The 911, being rear-engine, is an inherently inferior platform to the mid-engine Cayman/Boxster. Porsche has worked hard to make the 911 as great as possible despite its disadvantage, but the Cayman/Boxster is the better driving car. If you've driven a 911, Cayman, and Boxster, you would know this. You should really seek out the opportunity, it's quite the study in contrasts.

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

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My car died yesterday after 16 years. It’ll cost more to repair than it’s worth. I’m getting one of these next weekend

I love the Cayman. It's what the 911 was 15+ years ago.

I bought a black BMW 530xi wagon in 2009, used with 30K miles on it. You don't see many of them in the states but from what I read are common in Europe. Put a yakima rack on it which I use to carry my kayak, mountain bike, etc, the point being it's not a show car but a real workhorse automobile for me. Fantastic winter car; I live in Minnesota and run rings around everything else on the road when it snows. Reasonably fast and handles like a sports car; still driving it with 170K miles and the thing is solid as a rock. 27mpg as well. Hands down the best car I've ever owned. Don't get the beemer hate; buy used and intelligently and you will have a great car for as long as you want it.

For me the douche cars are:

--Hummer. Wtf?

--Massive escalade type cars, especially driven by some overly made up suburban princess

--the 3500 diesel trucks driven by anyone who doesn't have a ranch

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http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4371146

This has been covered and the douchemobile answer is Subaru.

This reminds me of a saying Geb once said not long ago, when he was told how fast he think he could do a marathon now. He said, Oh 2:02......with a car. That was funny, and got me literally thinking of this thread. I wonder what Geb thinks of Porsche's. He probably prefers running though. I wonder if he is giving Bekele motivation and advise on getting the marathon world record this year. A Porsche admittedly would do a marathon alot faster then 2:02(Bekele level now). I wonder what the roads are like where Geb and Bekele live. Probably not good for Porsche's

You sound like the sewer pipe crying out, "I'm full of __it."