What is it with Boxster owners?

[fulham911club]

Now this isn't a dig at hand-bag swinging hair-dressers before you lot get on your high horses ... but why is it that MANY Boxster owners always refer to them in threads as 986 / 987 etc?

I've just read something about Gaymans and why the 911 C4S is more expensive than a C4 and there seems to be a trend amongst Boxster owners that they don't want to admit to owning a BOXSTER and hiding behind some numbers.

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Don said:

I think your comment about "Gaymans" rather gave away your attitude to the cars and their owners despite your protestations.

There's always one to rise to the bait. !!!

I understand the model deisgnation thing its just as though some use it as a mask behind which to hide

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Don said:

Why would anyone want to "hide" they have a Boxster? Especially as any Porsche aficiando knows precisely what the model designation numbers mean anyway!

But not everyone is a "Porsche aficiando". I'm not suggesting there is any reason to hide the fact but quite the opposite.

Anyway I expected these sorts of responses. Maybe I'll just delete the post.

[fulham911club]

Alright, alright.

If someone asks you "what car do you have?". Do you answer "986S / 996 / 997 / 993 / etc"?

I doubt it.

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sleep envy said:

DoctorD said: Well I always used to answer 993 C2 seconded

Go on then ask a straw people in your office (or wherever you are) the following questions;

1. What is a 993 C2?
2. What is a 986?
3. What is a 996 TT?

Bet you get a lot of blank faces for most people (unless you're on a tradng floor)

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rob05 said:

Thats very true and if the thread had started out just to ask that question,then indeed interesting topic,but i think the poster also had other ideas.

No I didn't. There was no hidden agenda in the question. Are you paranoid or something? A simple question has got blown out of proportion.

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garyhun said:

Fulham....starting your question with "Now this isn't a dig at hand-bag swinging hair-dressers" would seem to indicate otherwise. Provocative language, in my experiemce, is only normally used by people looking for an argument. Hence there would appear to be a hidden agenda. IMHO of course!

Oh really! It was a joke you tool. I was asking a question. Won't bother in future.

Ted : please feel free to put a close this lunacy

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anonymous said:

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A silver car

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nervous said:

fulham911club said: anonymous said: [redacted] A silver car wow you must be minted. that said, it must be a bugger to keep clean and really up the power to weight ratio.

Yeah I do through an awful lot of Goddards otherwise it tends to go rather yellowish and then black

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anonymous said:

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Naw, find them rather vulgar