Feeling special? Nope - then go to France!
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I have just got back from a week's camping in France with the Boxster (they really are that practical - and enough room to bring back a case of wine 
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My Boxster S is a daily driver (52k in just over 3 years) so you start to take its performance for granted. You also get so used to seeing other Boxsters and 911's around that you sometimes forget that what you drive is pretty special. But France is the perfect place to go and remind yourself. The number of people stopping, taking photo's and fathers pointing out the car to their children was amazing. But best of all are the roads, they are so empty, so many opportunities for fun! The only radar traps I saw where on the autoroute in Belgium, just after the customs booths and one on a main road through a village, where the 50km/h was a reasonable speed limit. It is a shame the roads aren't in as good condition as you would hope. I was worrying about my suspension and steering for half the week! But of course the Boxster didn't miss a beat.
Anyway - thanks to the Blue 911 that waved somewhere near Rethel last Thursday lunchtime! And also thanks to the chap in MAC13, the Maclaren F1 that was on my Eurotunnel train last night - you really made the end of my holiday!
) My Boxster S is a daily driver (52k in just over 3 years) so you start to take its performance for granted. You also get so used to seeing other Boxsters and 911's around that you sometimes forget that what you drive is pretty special. But France is the perfect place to go and remind yourself. The number of people stopping, taking photo's and fathers pointing out the car to their children was amazing. But best of all are the roads, they are so empty, so many opportunities for fun! The only radar traps I saw where on the autoroute in Belgium, just after the customs booths and one on a main road through a village, where the 50km/h was a reasonable speed limit. It is a shame the roads aren't in as good condition as you would hope. I was worrying about my suspension and steering for half the week! But of course the Boxster didn't miss a beat.
Anyway - thanks to the Blue 911 that waved somewhere near Rethel last Thursday lunchtime! And also thanks to the chap in MAC13, the Maclaren F1 that was on my Eurotunnel train last night - you really made the end of my holiday!
I should be getting paid by the tourist board for this but ... It's a very similar situation here in Ireland .. Perhaps not so much so in Dublin , but once you venture into the country-side ... As the old movie quote goes ,
Porsche 911's .. Too small to get laid in , but as soon as you get out ......
my wife has asked me to be honest and tell you this is not the case for me
Porsche 911's .. Too small to get laid in , but as soon as you get out ......
my wife has asked me to be honest and tell you this is not the case for me
Agree about France, a recent trip in the Atom provoked nothing but good reactions. Only downside was it was difficult to leave petrol stations because of the crowds round the cars.
The reason for this is the French all seem to drive crap cars, between Gras (just North of Nice) and Dijon my co-driver and I counted less than 10 decent cars and the bar for decent was set pretty low !
Ben
The reason for this is the French all seem to drive crap cars, between Gras (just North of Nice) and Dijon my co-driver and I counted less than 10 decent cars and the bar for decent was set pretty low !
Ben
The french DO have some nice cars, but they are almost all garage queens. The socialist thang over here means that people feel that it's almost dirty to have a proper sportscar and disloyal because the car obviously won't then be french. So they get hidden away, and wheeled out preferably when the neighbours aren't looking (they're likely to report you to the dreaded tax-inspectors out of civic principle/envy).
I spent 2 months driving my porker back and forth to work waiting like a sad bastard for another Porsche owner to wave to - none, zilch. That's one of the pleasure of coming to the UK for me - so much vehicular diversity (i.e. not just Renault, Peugoet and Citroen) and loads of sportscars to admire.
But then I'm not after "feeling special" because of other peoples' reactions - it's more about how special the car feels to me....
I spent 2 months driving my porker back and forth to work waiting like a sad bastard for another Porsche owner to wave to - none, zilch. That's one of the pleasure of coming to the UK for me - so much vehicular diversity (i.e. not just Renault, Peugoet and Citroen) and loads of sportscars to admire.
But then I'm not after "feeling special" because of other peoples' reactions - it's more about how special the car feels to me....
ballcock said:
I should be getting paid by the tourist board for this but ... It's a very similar situation here in Ireland .. Perhaps not so much so in Dublin , but once you venture into the country-side ... As the old movie quote goes ,
Porsche 911's .. Too small to get laid in , but as soon as you get out ......
my wife has asked me to be honest and tell you this is not the case for me
Porsche 911's .. Too small to get laid in , but as soon as you get out ......
my wife has asked me to be honest and tell you this is not the case for me
WOO HOO, back in September.......from an orderly que girls.....
Yex said:
This sounds like fun as I'm taking the Cayman over to Le Touquet for lunch in a few weeks. Best make sure it's very shiney before I do 
Yex
Yex
Went to a wedding in Le Touquet two weeks ago in my 997. Judging by the reactions the French have never seen a 997... The kind of reaction you'd expect driving a Lambo..!! Good fun.
nel said:
The socialist thang over here means that people feel that it's almost dirty to have a proper sportscar and disloyal because the car obviously won't then be french. So they get hidden away, and wheeled out preferably when the neighbours aren't looking (they're likely to report you to the dreaded tax-inspectors out of civic principle/envy).
Dear me, that's abysmal but a lesson to us here in the UK of things to come, more emphatically than they already are, under our current zeitgeist of oppression.
Like the tale in the other thread about UK police actually bothering to tip off the French authorities in respect of some 'X' balling eventers - it's just manifestly pitiful and entirely illustrative of the rampant, uncut jealousy being programmed into the psychological DNA of vast swathes of the European population, disguised as many things, primarily environmentalism by a band of secret, manipulative, centre left lizard folk.
(Cherie Bliar is actually called 'Diana' in private and swallows live mice, whole...)
Irish said:
ballcock said:
I should be getting paid by the tourist board for this but ... It's a very similar situation here in Ireland .. Perhaps not so much so in Dublin , but once you venture into the country-side ... As the old movie quote goes ,
Porsche 911's .. Too small to get laid in , but as soon as you get out ......
my wife has asked me to be honest and tell you this is not the case for me
Porsche 911's .. Too small to get laid in , but as soon as you get out ......
my wife has asked me to be honest and tell you this is not the case for me
WOO HOO, back in September.......from an orderly que girls.....
Pints it is then!!
Right then - 24 hours in France this weekend. Where should I go for the good roads?
Over to your Euro driving expert types
And doesn't that Macca send you weak at the knees.... I'd be a like a hysterical teenage girl at a Boyzone concert if I was parked next to that in the Chunnel queue
Over to your Euro driving expert types
And doesn't that Macca send you weak at the knees.... I'd be a like a hysterical teenage girl at a Boyzone concert if I was parked next to that in the Chunnel queue
GuyR said:
phild said:
You can see the back of my Boxster through the rear wing of the F1 on the middle picture
Thats certainly what I always look for when I see an F1 photo, I wonder "is there a Boxster to be seen somewhere in the background"....
You b'stard!!! I just sprayed my keyboard with orange squash!!!
Vesuvius 996 said:
Totally agree.
We drove our seven year old poverty spec 996 C2 down to the Alps last year.
People RAN OUT OF THEIR HOUSES AND APPLAUDED as we roared past!
Amazing
And not a coffee bean shake in sight.
We drove our seven year old poverty spec 996 C2 down to the Alps last year.
People RAN OUT OF THEIR HOUSES AND APPLAUDED as we roared past!
Amazing
And not a coffee bean shake in sight.
Same kind of things happens all over SA too, apart from they have a gun and they want you to give them the car.
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