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Should I get a Porche Boxster?
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And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014 -
Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostWhy should anyone give a toss what other people think of their car?Comment
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Originally posted by Old Hack View PostBecause they look like they're inviting anal rampage in a Boxster, makes you look fagnostic
For someone whose own self-assessment is that he is too bright for the bobs, you don't come across as having a lot of self-knowledge.
Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by Old Hack View PostBecause they look like they're inviting anal rampage in a Boxster, makes you look fagnostic
I can understand that. I think it looks quite good and I don't want a car that's really 'sporty' because I don't see myself as a gifted driver, unlike the immeasurably gifted people who drive Audis on the motorway (there really is no beginning to their talents); I just want a decent looking (to me) car that can be a bit of fun but also comfortable and reliable. OK, the porsche isn't my taste, but I can understand why people would enjoy it without necessarily being old and homosexual. It's a nice car, simples. Not everyone wants an out and out race car; happily we don't all have the illusion that we can control out and out high performance cars.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostMaybe they just like the car?
I can understand that. I think it looks quite good and I don't want a car that's really 'sporty' because I don't see myself as a gifted driver, unlike the immeasurably gifted people who drive Audis on the motorway (there really is no beginning to their talents); I just want a decent looking (to me) car that can be a bit of fun but also comfortable and reliable. OK, the porsche isn't my taste, but I can understand why people would enjoy it without necessarily being old and homosexual. It's a nice car, simples. Not everyone wants an out and out race car; happily we don't all have the illusion that we can control out and out high performance cars.
So of course he;'s got be a blow-hard on here.
Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostFunny you say that and don't realise that you come across here as a right cock-knobber whose wife is having an affair.
For someone whose own self-assessment is that he is too bright for the bobs, you don't come across as having a lot of self-knowledge.
I have never said I am too bright for the bobs, that's the limitation in your understanding and knowledge of the English language coming out again, I merely pointed out I have lodged myself in an area immune from their advances. How you've deduced I am cuckold is amusing, very amusing. Kind of reverting to your inner child on the playground.
The cockknobber comment, for me, is a badge of honour coming from someone so universally ridiculed as being a bit of a Billy Liar, Walter Mitty and of such high distinction, utterly from the top drawer.
Thanks for that.Comment
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostWhat you don't understand is old Cock-Knobber gets into his 10 year-old Focus every day, bored out of his skull from the dreary, ill-paid work that even the Bobs won't do.
So of course he;'s got be a blow-hard on here.
Oh, I'll give you a mark for trying.
Keep going ass, too funy for words, coming from you.
Thought you were out in the garden enjoying a beer and completing your thesis
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Originally posted by Old Hack View PostI'd never buy a Boxster for the following
a) I am not gay
b) I am not over 50 & a
c) If I am looking for a drivers car, I would buy one whose structural integrity hasn't been compromised by having no roof.
d) I am not a hairdresser or aspire to be one
e) I would look like I couldn't afford a real one (Porsche).
f) They start at 38k for a car with less power then a Vauxhall Astra.
g) It shouts I have no imagination.
h) It would shout I have attempted to be a winner in life, but ironically, buying this proves I have lost.
It screams as our French cousins would say of Quebecois:, ce n'est pas la chose reelle
Alas, for the benefit of the OP, on the structural integrity thing.
The Boxster was designed from a clean sheet of paper for the chassis to work well without a roof, this is why the track times between the Cayman and Boxster are so close. The hardtop does little.
There is little scuttle, no body roll (a 997 911 cab does this, they fixed it with the 991S with PDDC) and the chassis does not flex, it is perfectly balanced due to its mid engined, rear wheel drive design. When you corner, you smile.
The car is lower on power than some hot hatches but this does not matter, the tyres on the back are almost a foot wide and the car corners like a go kart, this gives you confidence to use all the power available more of the time, even in the wet, she was not built for drag racing but for generating smiles-per-mile.
It's not a car defined by numbers or cliches from the Clarkson handbook.Comment
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Originally posted by Bluenose View Postshe was not built for drag racing but for generating smiles-per-mile.
I loathe it, it's a shining beacon of tulipe, in my opinion, not Clarksons. I have driven it, and the chassis isn't rigid; a friends R26R would murder it on a track and I have had much more fun driving an old Alfa Spider. I firmly believe it is not very good, considering the alternatives. The new one is better, but also far more expensive, for a properly specc'd one, and you could afford far more car than what the Boxster offers.
Jaysus, a 5 year old 911 Cabriolet you can buy for half the price, own it for a year and lose nothing. The only thing guaranteed about the boxster, from new, is that you will lose money.Comment
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Best car to drive I ever had was (got it 2003) a 1988 Alfa 75 Twin Spark, it was brilliant, unstickable, cornered on rails (lived in darkest Dumfries and Galloway at the time, cracking roads), wasn't that fast but felt reckless but straight, women refused to drive it - too fast. When it wasn't really....
Loved it, had the 3.0 manual too at the same time, that was a pig, nose heavy despite the V6 not being that much heavier....
Front engine, rear clutch and gearbox, inboard rear discs, mental in a production car....
It's not just about bhp.......Comment
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