Less abuse in older cars?
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Do people find that they get less, shall we say, impolite comments and gestures made at them when driving an older Porsche when compared to a newer one?
Thought I'd ask as I just had my first "w@nker" shout in the 993 after only a couple of months (996 took me a year to get one): light had just flicked from red/amber to green and I started pulling away (normally I might add) and about 1 sec later a guy tries to dive across the crossing in front of me. He gets about a foot out before realising that a car bumper is in all probability likely to be more robust than his legs, dives back and shouts his self pleasuring comment. Normally I just wave, apologise even if it's not my fault and carry on as life's too short. I'm afraid this time he got the finger displayed through my rear windscreen (first ever for me in 14 years driving) as it's been a pretty crap day overall so far in terms of me having to deal with incompetent/tw@ttish people of which I now probably qualify as now too. But dang did it feel good
Thought I'd ask as I just had my first "w@nker" shout in the 993 after only a couple of months (996 took me a year to get one): light had just flicked from red/amber to green and I started pulling away (normally I might add) and about 1 sec later a guy tries to dive across the crossing in front of me. He gets about a foot out before realising that a car bumper is in all probability likely to be more robust than his legs, dives back and shouts his self pleasuring comment. Normally I just wave, apologise even if it's not my fault and carry on as life's too short. I'm afraid this time he got the finger displayed through my rear windscreen (first ever for me in 14 years driving) as it's been a pretty crap day overall so far in terms of me having to deal with incompetent/tw@ttish people of which I now probably qualify as now too. But dang did it feel good
te out of them until I've damn well nearly killed them to death.Seeing that the shape hasn't changed a great deal since 1963 I would think the average man on the street wouldn't really know the difference between a new one or an old one.
So a jealous brain dead idiot would still get the hump with anything with a Porsche badge unless you were driving a Porsche panamera, then they would be shell shocked at seeing such an ugly car.
So a jealous brain dead idiot would still get the hump with anything with a Porsche badge unless you were driving a Porsche panamera, then they would be shell shocked at seeing such an ugly car.
DH01 said:
Seems a fair and reasoned response.
Try a Cayenne, it's all love on the streets !
One day I'm going to buy a big smelly Land Rover, preferably a LWB one, purely to drive in London from my house to the Waitrose half a mile away just to watch the the greenies go apoplectic :PTry a Cayenne, it's all love on the streets !
Mario149 said:
One day I'm going to buy a big smelly Land Rover, preferably a LWB one, purely to drive in London from my house to the Waitrose half a mile away just to watch the the greenies go apoplectic :P
I once parked in our local M&S carpark in my filthy pick-up.Came back to it and someone had scrawled something about me killing the environment in my big, gas guzzling behemoth, in the dirt on the tailgate.
I trundled off chuckling about the £110 pa RFL I was paying...
Mario149 said:
One day I'm going to buy a big smelly Land Rover, preferably a LWB one, purely to drive in London from my house to the Waitrose half a mile away just to watch the the greenies go apoplectic :P
I have friends in London, so am there 3 or 4 times a year and a few years ago saw a really snotty brown 911SC which was filthy. It was obviously being used as a daily.I just thought that was the coolest thing to use in London. It's what I would do.
mollytherocker said:
I have friends in London, so am there 3 or 4 times a year and a few years ago saw a really snotty brown 911SC which was filthy. It was obviously being used as a daily.
I just thought that was the coolest thing to use in London. It's what I would do.
I'm not quite on that level yet, but my 993 is my daily drive I just thought that was the coolest thing to use in London. It's what I would do.
I'm yet to prove whether it makes financial sense yet, but the idea was that since I paid £18k for it and it's already done 110k miles or so, the extra miles wouldn't devalue it so all I had to do was stump up more money for servicing than usual It's not quite going to plan at the mo, but as soon as I start chucking some more miles on it, the pence per mile cost should get a lot better!Mario149 said:
Do people find that they get less, shall we say, impolite comments and gestures made at them when driving an older Porsche when compared to a newer one?
Thought I'd ask as I just had my first "w@nker" shout in the 993 after only a couple of months (996 took me a year to get one): light had just flicked from red/amber to green and I started pulling away (normally I might add) and about 1 sec later a guy tries to dive across the crossing in front of me. He gets about a foot out before realising that a car bumper is in all probability likely to be more robust than his legs, dives back and shouts his self pleasuring comment. Normally I just wave, apologise even if it's not my fault and carry on as life's too short. I'm afraid this time he got the finger displayed through my rear windscreen (first ever for me in 14 years driving) as it's been a pretty crap day overall so far in terms of me having to deal with incompetent/tw@ttish people of which I now probably qualify as now too. But dang did it feel good
I got an amusing gesture on the way back from the garage after picking mine up - as far as I am aware, utterly unprovoked. Is that a record? Thought I'd ask as I just had my first "w@nker" shout in the 993 after only a couple of months (996 took me a year to get one): light had just flicked from red/amber to green and I started pulling away (normally I might add) and about 1 sec later a guy tries to dive across the crossing in front of me. He gets about a foot out before realising that a car bumper is in all probability likely to be more robust than his legs, dives back and shouts his self pleasuring comment. Normally I just wave, apologise even if it's not my fault and carry on as life's too short. I'm afraid this time he got the finger displayed through my rear windscreen (first ever for me in 14 years driving) as it's been a pretty crap day overall so far in terms of me having to deal with incompetent/tw@ttish people of which I now probably qualify as now too. But dang did it feel good
I parked my C4S up outside a Coop supermarket in a fairly "modest" area and came back to it to find a woman peering at the badge and saying to her husband - "It's a Porsche, I bet it's really fast, lovely isn't it". ( I should add she was really smiley when she saw an old beardy git climb into it)
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