A different rant....
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I am getting bored reading the posts from the same people over and over again about 718 engines and GT4 values so thought I would start a proper whinge in true Pistonheads style:
WTF is going on with Cayman drivers, usually GTS owners, who drive around everywhere with the spoiler extended? You know who you are. I counted three today on the commute. It's not a GT4, so why try to make it look like one?
Oh, and Panamera drivers are just as bad, but that's probably because the car has the profile of a pooing dog.
Rant over.
WTF is going on with Cayman drivers, usually GTS owners, who drive around everywhere with the spoiler extended? You know who you are. I counted three today on the commute. It's not a GT4, so why try to make it look like one?
Oh, and Panamera drivers are just as bad, but that's probably because the car has the profile of a pooing dog.
Rant over.
JLZ78 said:
I am getting bored reading the posts from the same people over and over again about 718 engines and GT4 values so thought I would start a proper whinge in true Pistonheads style:
WTF is going on with Cayman drivers, usually GTS owners, who drive around everywhere with the spoiler extended? You know who you are. I counted three today on the commute. It's not a GT4, so why try to make it look like one?
Oh, and Panamera drivers are just as bad, but that's probably because the car has the profile of a pooing dog.
Rant over.
No idea. As for the Panamera i can't look at those as the pain is so bad!WTF is going on with Cayman drivers, usually GTS owners, who drive around everywhere with the spoiler extended? You know who you are. I counted three today on the commute. It's not a GT4, so why try to make it look like one?
Oh, and Panamera drivers are just as bad, but that's probably because the car has the profile of a pooing dog.
Rant over.
It absolutely gets me as well. Not just on Porsches, any speed deployed pop up spoiler that has been manually raised is a shocker. I have now come to the overall conclusion it's a positive thing though, it allows you to 100% identify that the person is a cock, there are fewer surer tests.
Glad you all agree.
One Carmine CGTS owner on the M25 this evening could be seen admiring his raised spoiler in stationary traffic. If I hadn't been going the other way I would have got out and slapped him.
It's the Porsche equivalent to putting an 'M' badge on a 320d, or slapping Golf GTi alloys on a 1.4TSI. It should be illegal and perpetrators should be publically shamed.
Haven't seen Boxster owners doing it though. Seems to be the Cayman/Panamera fraternity.
One Carmine CGTS owner on the M25 this evening could be seen admiring his raised spoiler in stationary traffic. If I hadn't been going the other way I would have got out and slapped him.
It's the Porsche equivalent to putting an 'M' badge on a 320d, or slapping Golf GTi alloys on a 1.4TSI. It should be illegal and perpetrators should be publically shamed.
Haven't seen Boxster owners doing it though. Seems to be the Cayman/Panamera fraternity.
A few months back we had a company meeting, so 500 employees descending on a rural hotel. I car shared with a colleague and she drove, when we pulled in the car park I noticed a new guy had a white 997 similar to mine. When we got out of the car he was sat in it still, before getting out he pressed the button to raise the spoiler either because he thought it looked good or because he wanted to let everyone know he was a cock.
I chuckled with my colleague then suddenly stopped and thought sh!t, what if my colleagues thinks that's my bloody car!!!
Not a good feeling (he also genuinely had the collar up on his sports jacket on purpose!)
I chuckled with my colleague then suddenly stopped and thought sh!t, what if my colleagues thinks that's my bloody car!!!
Not a good feeling (he also genuinely had the collar up on his sports jacket on purpose!)
I dunno, is it any worse than the 45+ bloke making sure the centre cap faces the correct way on the rims, or the grey hair afflicted 911 driver telling you his air-cooled beetle on roids is so much better than modern cars, as its more raw and natural, and the early 90's vinyl in the cabin is less pompous than leather. Let's not get to gold wheels on a 944 !
toys4x4boys said:
I dunno, is it any worse than the 45+ bloke making sure the centre cap faces the correct way on the rims, or the grey hair afflicted 911 driver telling you his air-cooled beetle on roids is so much better than modern cars, as its more raw and natural, and the early 90's vinyl in the cabin is less pompous than leather. Let's not get to gold wheels on a 944 !
Yes, its way worse. Its posing. Posturing. Its pathetic.I've driven once with the spoiler manually put up - I pressed the button by mistake when going for the PSE and didn't realise that it wasn't a simple, single press retract. Please forgive me. I'm on your side I wonder why there is a manual override. Why would I know any better about the aerodynamics of a car than the people who designed and built it.
I had this discussion with a dealer principal once, regarding raised TT spoilers...
He pointed out that Plod is aware of what speed most model's spoilers rise and so if you are on the motorway (or other road!) and they see one pop up it's an indication the car is speeding. Whereas, if you enter the motorway with it already raised and get stopped, the spoiler will stay up when on the hard shoulder, rather than going down again, thus indicating you had raised it manually and it wasn't the car doing 78mph which activated it.
He surmised that many owners raise their spoiler as a habit when starting off on any trip, so as to avoid this tell-tale sign of speeding. To be clear it's the popping up which he thought the indicator, whereas an already raised spoiler might be overlooked as the Plod may assume the driver is one step ahead.
Any merit in this?
He pointed out that Plod is aware of what speed most model's spoilers rise and so if you are on the motorway (or other road!) and they see one pop up it's an indication the car is speeding. Whereas, if you enter the motorway with it already raised and get stopped, the spoiler will stay up when on the hard shoulder, rather than going down again, thus indicating you had raised it manually and it wasn't the car doing 78mph which activated it.
He surmised that many owners raise their spoiler as a habit when starting off on any trip, so as to avoid this tell-tale sign of speeding. To be clear it's the popping up which he thought the indicator, whereas an already raised spoiler might be overlooked as the Plod may assume the driver is one step ahead.
Any merit in this?
DJMC said:
I had this discussion with a dealer principal once, regarding raised TT spoilers...
He pointed out that Plod is aware of what speed most model's spoilers rise and so if you are on the motorway (or other road!) and they see one pop up it's an indication the car is speeding. Whereas, if you enter the motorway with it already raised and get stopped, the spoiler will stay up when on the hard shoulder, rather than going down again, thus indicating you had raised it manually and it wasn't the car doing 78mph which activated it.
He surmised that many owners raise their spoiler as a habit when starting off on any trip, so as to avoid this tell-tale sign of speeding. To be clear it's the popping up which he thought the indicator, whereas an already raised spoiler might be overlooked as the Plod may assume the driver is one step ahead.
Any merit in this?
No. Thats utter bull crap. No copper watches spoilers! It is nil proof of anything.He pointed out that Plod is aware of what speed most model's spoilers rise and so if you are on the motorway (or other road!) and they see one pop up it's an indication the car is speeding. Whereas, if you enter the motorway with it already raised and get stopped, the spoiler will stay up when on the hard shoulder, rather than going down again, thus indicating you had raised it manually and it wasn't the car doing 78mph which activated it.
He surmised that many owners raise their spoiler as a habit when starting off on any trip, so as to avoid this tell-tale sign of speeding. To be clear it's the popping up which he thought the indicator, whereas an already raised spoiler might be overlooked as the Plod may assume the driver is one step ahead.
Any merit in this?
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