Bill Coleman

This weekend I spotted a gorgeous black 91 S4 in Ann Arbor, but I was driving my wife's A4 Avant. Seems I only ever see other 928s when I'm not driving mine! I wave, but not surprisingly I never get a response back. Sometimes I give them a thumbs up, but depending on the distance I'm worried they might just see an extended digit and make the wrong interpretation. Does anyone else see the need for a way to acknowlege each other when we're not driving our 928s? Flashing 9-2-8 in morse code would take waaaaaaaay too long.

On a side note, I drove my 928 to work this morning and got a wave from a 911 driver!

Brendan

<<On a side note, I drove my 928 to work this morning and got a wave from a 911 driver!>>

Hurry up and buy a lottery ticket!

Garth S

Her Royal Highness, Queen Elizabeth, has a most distinctive hand gesture that could serve this function: while a pedestrian, commoner style 'thumbs - up' could be employed amongst the 928 fraternity, the 'Royal Wave' carries a minimal note of disdainful separation that allows one to acknowledge lesser species - but also has adequate kinship (ie, "really, well we do breathe the same air after all") to respond to those driving A4s, for example. This would also provide sufficient bridging diplomacy to allow for the fact that the other car of the recipient might be a 928.

Apologies to any true Royalists.

Big Dave

No no no! You're supposed to turn around and chase the other 928 down! Just ask Dennis!

Rez

Huh,

I use the sign in Gretch's avatar. For some reason people never wave back.

DonT

I use the "A-OK" signal.

Joe '87 S4

I've got one better. On my trip to Los Angeles last weekend, I got the thumbs up from a Boxster driver! And I double checked, it was his thumb.

saxapeeel

i give the thumbs up :-D

heinrich

THere is an age-old signal, called the "Porsche flash" ..... you flash lights at other Porsches. However, I believe flashing lights is illegal in the Republik of Washington. Also, if a Volvo flashed me I might think it weird and not understand. Perhaps if we all stuck 928OC or PCA stickers on our other cars? Dunno ... I guess a wave or thumbs up or smile etc. Ahhh yes I actually like the old double-honk ... works fine for me.

Ron_H

For those of us who were involved with Porsches as far back as the sixties, the usual greeting was a flash of your headlights as Heinrich states. But there weren't so many around then. And the car was a bit esoteric. It is rare that someone will flash back now. And it seems some people don't even recognize various models, and look puzzled when they are flashed.

Shane

Flashing is a tough one, since I drive fast and it takes a couple seconds for the lights to come up and to engage highbeams on and off, the other car is usually long gone.

macreel

I wave, as a 'flash'; I 'flashed' a silver grey Carrera
about 2 hrs ago on North I-405, exit 7.

He seemed puzzled or oblivious. Maybe he was
on his way to work.

Ron_H

I don't use the headlights to flash. If you just flash, the foglights will operate.

maddox

Over here a flash of the headlights lights is used to warn other drivers that a speed camera is on the road ahead.

Otherwise 928's are so bloody rare that I would be to stunned to respond in a timely or otherwise fashion. I have attempted to acknowledge other P drivers - in their Carrera 4s or GT3s but I think they work to hard and find it difficult to raise their hands back.

V-Fib

Recently, I watched a special about the Autobahn on the History Channel. Maybe Miss Nicole can confirm this, but they give tickets for obscene hand gestures. One of which is the "OK" sign to us, but doing it there (Germany) means *******. Needless to say, I give a lot of "OK" signs now.
Comments Miss Nicole?