Owning a Porsche means you're having a mid life crisis
Owning a Porsche means you're having a mid life crisis
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Smollet

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13,805 posts

208 months

Friday 26th January 2024
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Crudeoink

1,132 posts

77 months

Friday 26th January 2024
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Not looking good for me then, bought my first Porsche last year, I'm only 30 so I've not got long left biglaugh

ARHarh

4,892 posts

125 months

Friday 26th January 2024
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I was 20 when i bought my first convertible, an MG Midget. Now 40 years later I am still have a mid life crisis, an MX5 now. Had it said to me plenty of times but mostly by blokes driving people carriers cause that's what the told them is sensible.

PistonBroker

2,670 posts

244 months

Friday 26th January 2024
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Bought my 986S just before my 43rd . . . so this figures!

Ignores the fact that I've been obsessed with Porsches since I was knee-high to a grasshopper though. If pesky houses, kids, dogs etc. hadn't got in the way I'd have bought one a lot sooner.

I see the MX5 is way down at 17. Which makes sense as I first had that midlife crisis aged 25.

J77wck

314 posts

25 months

Friday 26th January 2024
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27 for me, married with 2 children so defiantly a mid life crisis.

Busa mav

2,763 posts

172 months

Friday 26th January 2024
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Wish it was mid life, got my 911 GTS just under 2 years ago , age 67 , always wanted one, but couldn’t justify the funds before.

Smollet

Original Poster:

13,805 posts

208 months

Friday 26th January 2024
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I've owned an MX5 , 996.1 and now a 986.2s. I'm in a permanent state of crisis

stuckmojo

3,624 posts

206 months

Friday 26th January 2024
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I've been in a midlife crisis since I was 12. I still like the same things (Porsches, Harley Davidsons, guitars).

I am ok with that.

bigmowley

2,361 posts

194 months

Friday 26th January 2024
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Well that's a stroke of luck at least I haven't got a tiny penis and a hair salon.

Schuey_911

874 posts

90 months

Friday 26th January 2024
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Will take that with a pinch of salt. Got told I had a mid-life crisis when I was 19 when I started riding motorbikes lol

Adrian-9iafn

353 posts

90 months

Friday 26th January 2024
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Ive been having mine for the last 35 years then !

JamesW

215 posts

250 months

Friday 26th January 2024
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So I'm now on my 6th midlife crisis then, and it started at 25

Rik Blythe

98 posts

135 months

Saturday 27th January 2024
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5 911s an Aston and a r8 so far, my crisis must be amazing 😂

elan362

206 posts

55 months

Sunday 28th January 2024
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My wife calls it my 981 Boxster S my "Manopause" biglaugh

I seen to lurch from crisis to crisis!!! A BMW E89 Z4, MX-5 NC 3.5. 718 Boxster S, and now the 981BS smile

Edited by elan362 on Sunday 28th January 16:16

964Cup

1,584 posts

255 months

Sunday 28th January 2024
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I've got three. Does that elevate me from crisis to emergency, like the climate?

Guybrush

4,364 posts

224 months

Sunday 28th January 2024
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What if you've owned once since you were young and decades later, still owning one, somebody concludes that you are having a midlife crisis? It's all rather confusing.

CanAm

11,881 posts

290 months

Sunday 28th January 2024
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I've just bought my first Porsche, a Cayman, and I'm far too old for it to be considered a mid-life crisis car.

My 50 year old mate with the Racing Yellow Boxster -

I'm not so sure!

woodysnr

1,101 posts

246 months

Sunday 28th January 2024
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You are all youngsters I drive a 987 Spyder and a 981 Boxster and months off 79
Was 47 before I could afford my first Porsche now on number 18 they can be addictive.

Oz83

718 posts

157 months

Monday 29th January 2024
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There's some truth to it, although my guess is that most people wait until later in life for financial reasons.
If you could have afforded a Porsche at 20, then you'd have bought one.

The thing that rubs me the wrong way about the article is the cliché about buying a Boxster because you can't afford a 911. Everyone knows the only convertible Porsche should be a Boxster.

PlywoodPascal

5,946 posts

39 months

Monday 29th January 2024
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Coming at number 17, golf GTI???

If you buy a Golf GTI because you’re having a mid-life crisis, then you really ARE having a midlife crisis.