Boxster - Hairdressers Car?
Discussion
Please help settle a dilemma!
My colleague owns a Boxster and refuses to accept that it is an out and out Hairdresser's car! He recons women "check him out" all the time in it, but I think they're just looking to see if it's Vidal Sasoon driving. He has even painted his brake calipers henna red to improve the "wow factor"!
Any feedback welcome, but keep it gentle as he is very sensitive, as you can imagine
My colleague owns a Boxster and refuses to accept that it is an out and out Hairdresser's car! He recons women "check him out" all the time in it, but I think they're just looking to see if it's Vidal Sasoon driving. He has even painted his brake calipers henna red to improve the "wow factor"!
Any feedback welcome, but keep it gentle as he is very sensitive, as you can imagine
I've never really understood this term hairdressers car - also applies to the MX5.
The Boxster is a bloody good sports car, quick in S form, handles well (looks a bit odd though) etc. Why in that case should people be told don't get one its a hairdressers car - and why is that derogatory?
Plus the fact that most hairdressers wouldn't be able to affod one in the first place.
Yes many buy one to pose in but that can be said about nearly all sports cars.
The Boxster is a bloody good sports car, quick in S form, handles well (looks a bit odd though) etc. Why in that case should people be told don't get one its a hairdressers car - and why is that derogatory?
Plus the fact that most hairdressers wouldn't be able to affod one in the first place.
Yes many buy one to pose in but that can be said about nearly all sports cars.
All convertibles are "hairdresser's cars" and GAY as GAY can be!
From the StreetKa to SL55 to the XKR Convertible to the 911 cab. G-aaaaa-yy.
So. If you feel any question about your masculinity at all you shouldn't buy one.
Me? I drive two convertibles and I'm hung like a donkey. I'm so macho that women faint with desire as I drive past depite how G-aaaa-yyy my cars are.
Did you know when you go to the Porsche dealer they get a tape measure out? If you, ahem, come up short they won't sell you a convertible? Yeah. Wouldn't want the story to get out that convertibles are driven only by "new men" who are gay as anything...
From the StreetKa to SL55 to the XKR Convertible to the 911 cab. G-aaaaa-yy.
So. If you feel any question about your masculinity at all you shouldn't buy one.
Me? I drive two convertibles and I'm hung like a donkey. I'm so macho that women faint with desire as I drive past depite how G-aaaa-yyy my cars are.
Did you know when you go to the Porsche dealer they get a tape measure out? If you, ahem, come up short they won't sell you a convertible? Yeah. Wouldn't want the story to get out that convertibles are driven only by "new men" who are gay as anything...
Boxster seen as one of three things.
1)The Porsche for people who can't afford a 911 (about 30% of sales)
2)The porsche for people who want to say they own a porsche but can't/don't like driving cars(20%)
3)the porsche designed for and driven by hairdressers (50%)
Survey conducted while going on stag weekend and 100% acccurate.
1)The Porsche for people who can't afford a 911 (about 30% of sales)
2)The porsche for people who want to say they own a porsche but can't/don't like driving cars(20%)
3)the porsche designed for and driven by hairdressers (50%)
Survey conducted while going on stag weekend and 100% acccurate.
mikeyboy said:
Boxster seen as one of three things.
1)The Porsche for people who can't afford a 911 (about 30% of sales)
2)The porsche for people who want to say they own a porsche but can't/don't like driving cars(20%)
3)the porsche designed for and driven by hairdressers (50%)
Survey conducted while going on stag weekend and 100% acccurate.
Quite correct.
You forgot to add that a Boxster is camper than row of pink tents in Brighton
mikeyboy said:
Boxster seen as one of three things.
1)The Porsche for people who can't afford a 911 (about 30% of sales)
2)The porsche for people who want to say they own a porsche but can't/don't like driving cars(20%)
3)the porsche designed for and driven by hairdressers (50%)
Survey conducted while going on stag weekend and 100% acccurate.
To be 100% accurate - what if you`ve got a 911 and a Boxster, like driving cars and don`t even visit a hairdresser?
ettore said:
Boxster seen as one of three things.
1)The Porsche for people who can't afford a 911 (about 30% of sales)
2)The porsche for people who want to say they own a porsche but can't/don't like driving cars(20%)
3)the porsche designed for and driven by hairdressers (50%)
Survey conducted while going on stag weekend and 100% acccurate.
To be 100% accurate - what if you`ve got a 911 and a Boxster, like driving cars and don`t even visit a hairdresser?
You're obviously one in a million......
mikeyboy said:
Boxster seen as one of three things.
1)The Porsche for people who can't afford a 911 (about 30% of sales)
2)The porsche for people who want to say they own a porsche but can't/don't like driving cars(20%)
3)the porsche designed for and driven by hairdressers (50%)
Survey conducted while going on stag weekend and 100% acccurate.
Then there are maybe 10-15% who like Porsches and prefer what is apparently near-perfect mid-engined handling rather than the superbly developed, yet still fundamentally compromised 911 (ass-engined) or Cayenne (high C of G, just generally silly). How many % does that make?
No such thing as a hairdressers car...
The problem is, cars like the MX-5, and to some degree, the Boxster - which are fantastic cars, great handling, the Boxster S is pretty damn fast too - are bought by people who dont know the first thing about cars, and buy them to 'pose' in...
Then people who think the be all and end all of motoring is a BMW M3 start calling them hairdressers cars - so serious drivers who would normally buy one for the performance and handling are put off, because they dont want people to think they bought the car to pose in rather than drive...
So, in a nutshell, the Boxster (especially the S) is NOT a hairdressers car - its a serious mid-engine sports car that has an undeserved reputation caused by people like yourself...
The problem is, cars like the MX-5, and to some degree, the Boxster - which are fantastic cars, great handling, the Boxster S is pretty damn fast too - are bought by people who dont know the first thing about cars, and buy them to 'pose' in...
Then people who think the be all and end all of motoring is a BMW M3 start calling them hairdressers cars - so serious drivers who would normally buy one for the performance and handling are put off, because they dont want people to think they bought the car to pose in rather than drive...
So, in a nutshell, the Boxster (especially the S) is NOT a hairdressers car - its a serious mid-engine sports car that has an undeserved reputation caused by people like yourself...
When the engineers at Ferrari started work on the F360, they extensively tested a Boxster over thousands of miles as they were so impressed with it's handling, balance and unflapability on the twisty bits around Modena. Sure it's not as powerful as a 911, but the way it handles camber changes mid-corner and deals with broken surfaces is pretty impressive and up there with far more expensive and exotic sports cars.
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