Abuse

[woogie]

A friend of mine has just bought a Boxster and has had lots of abuse in only the 2 weeks he has had it. Is this just common with boxsters as I have had no abuse in over 12 months of ownership of my 996.

Maybe it's because my exhaust is too loud and I don't hear them

[MogulBoy]

woogie said:

I have had no abuse in over 12 months of ownership of my 996.

Maybe it's because my exhaust is too loud and I don't hear them

Nah! It's probably because you don't know many 993 owners!

[Wanta996(Gotta)]

I experienced it first week of ownership but nothing since.I find convertibles are a bigger target as the roof is down and people think they have a right to shout abuse at you as they think you are showing off.I would think MX5,Elise,S2000 drivers etc would get same abuse when roof is down.

What i have noticed though is other drivers wanting to race you, i thought this type of behaviour had died out - Obviously not.

[ihatesissycars]

Even though I drive a slow old 2.5 lux I get everyone trying it on!!!

The sad truth is that most cars could keep up with it or leave it behind lol!

[Fidgits]

i never got any abuse in my 996?

[woogie]

Fidgits said:

i never got any abuse in my 996?

It may be the convertible thing though as was mentioned earlier . I wonder if any 996/997 convertibles owners get abuse.

[Fidgits]

woogie said:

Fidgits said:

i never got any abuse in my 996?

It may be the convertible thing though as was mentioned earlier . I wonder if any 996/997 convertibles owners get abuse.

ask Blairout (griffalo)

[runner911]

I live in Plymouth down here in the Westcountry, and currently run a MK1 996 GT3 , the third 911 I have owned.

I frequently find some drivers less than courteous , with one or two making the w---n-er sign and trying to out accelerate or out perform.

On one occasion someone actually spat at the car and left saliva running down the offside door. I didn't see the culprit. Perhaps it's just as well .

I put it down to the current general standards in this miserable country, plain simple jealousy , or even the mental make-up of the Celtic mind !

[wildoliver]

I quite often get w*nker shouted............

That said I'm the one in the Porsche they tend to be the chav massive in a corsa.......I'll take being a w*nker please!

[TTTurbo]

Hey Woogie

That may have something to do with you being a big er

[johnmaddox]

Saw a Lambo at Silverstone the other weekend in the Paddock and the numberplate was U T05SER (for real- I have a picture!!)

[sleep envy]

get the odd word shouted at me, mostly wr, but I think it's less about the car and more to do with the fact they know me

[shadowninja]

sleep envy said:

get the odd word shouted at me, mostly wr, but I think it's less about the car and more to do with the fact they know me

You really ought to draw the curtains before pleasuring yourself.

[Slaav]

woogie said:

Fidgits said:

i never got any abuse in my 996?

It may be the convertible thing though as was mentioned earlier . I wonder if any 996/997 convertibles owners get abuse.

Last week on the M40 we were trundling out of town and a little 'chav' van was coming up on the offside in lane 3. He/she started beeping the horn to try and get our attention and in true to55er form, I tried to ignore him to only then realise that the passenger was giving it the big thumbs up! I laughed and he gave it larger thumbs up... Maybe we just remember the bad ones and I have had none in 10 months or so.

I ALWAYS try to remember what I am in when I am in town (especially) and stop at Zebras and let people go and I have never experienced the number of thanks and good gestures that I get in the toy when you drive it sensibly and courteously. Come on; most of it is down to US! Nothing makes me smile inside more than stopping at a zebra (when I could easily have gone past) to let 3 or 4 'rough necks' cross. I would guarantee that 3 of the 4 or 2 of the 3 would wave a thanks.

Reap what you sow!

[bigsi]

As the proud owner of my 996 cab for almost 4 years I can't recall any rudeness...lots of thumbs up though, and the occasional friendly insult from my 'mates' about my 'tangerine dream' (check my profile).

ta ta

[Andy M]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[TOENHEEL]

I posted a thread a while ago about hassle in my Boxster..people spitting at me etc. Unfortunately there is many people in this country who hate seeing someone with something they havent got.Absolute sh*tbags. Trying to find the thread now that i posted..

[TOENHEEL]

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0... there we go

[chumley-warner]

Don't get any abuse apart from those who **feel** I've cut them up, but nothing to do with the car per se.

I honestly think the car is quite anonomous - particualarly in the south east where it feel like every bu66er has got one.

Were I regularly subjected to abuse I think I would keep a little plastic water pistol (not black lest someone gets the wrong idea - perhaps a nice see-through orange colour) and squirt back at them as playfully as I could. Not sure if this would always work, but it would keep me amused.

[lynchygt3]

you lot should try being 21 and driving a porsche i'd get abuse at least twice a week and people trying to race me left right and centre. i'm 24 now and it's a lot less but still there my tuned 996 tt was a good laugh when people tryed it on let them get say 3 car lenth's ahead and then drop a gear and fly past them as though they were going backward's haha put a smile on my face every time.

i also have a good one for the chav's that herl the abuse next time somone call's you a wr shout back "hey you i was a wr well before i got a porsche" it normally leave's there 2 brain cell's a little lost for word's

oh then there's the little dick/dick extension one simply reply "will you please tell your mam to stop talking about me"