Monetthecat

Nothing bad in 6 months living in Chicago (Northside), but the reaction from kids is worth the price of ownership alone. While parked at the healthclub couple weeks ago a Father and Son was walking past the car. The kid was about 9 and my car was parked all alone. He was chatting with his dad and all the sudden stopped dead in his tracks and yelled "Dad, Its a Porsche 911!!" He was awestruck.

I come up from behind and say hi and ask him if he'd like to sit in the car. Dad said it was fine and I let him sit and start the car. He could barely speak.

I turned it into a life experience and told him to get good grades, go to college and work hard and maybe he could have a Porsche someday. I said that's what I did.

THPorsche

Some ladies have been using your car to rest her purses to find her stuff.

stealthboy

Yes, that was my theory until it continued to happen when I moved my car to random locations all around the parking garage. That tells me someone is actively targeting my vehicle.

mi650

Just seems like an odd place to scratch it, almost like someone is hoping you won't notice. Kinda defeats the purpose of doing it, IMO.

IDK, stranger things have happened.

mtbscott

Originally Posted by rnl
"Idiots who leave little paper messages under the wipers complaining that I am taking more than one space in at the absolutely last row in an empty parking lot (like: "your parking is ignorant man") "

Don't do that.

Totally agree. Taking up two spots is bad karma regardless of how many empty spots there are in the lot.

MerlinsGarage

What does a BMW SUV have to do with lunatics?

stealthboy

I know, it's weird. I'm thinking it's because they're not bold enough to just flat-out key my car - and this is their "death by a thousand cuts" way of damaging my property. They know they're doing something to mar my new car, so it gives them that way to act out without being overt.

Otherwise, the reactions to the car are positive. Mostly it's the younger kids that love it. There are a lot of other Porsches in my area, so they're not too rare, but still it gets some waves and thumbs-up from kids.

freeman

I have always used remarks about my Porsches as "teaching moments" or just plain "self help".

Teaching moment: When a child remarks about my Porsches I point out that I am not wealthy but had been in school 11 years beyond high school and have "many college degrees". In many cases they interpret that to mean that I must be well employed. I just had a teaching moment.

Self help: On the few times I have been "justifiably" stopped for speeding on an interstate, I am both pleasant and overly conversational. I somehow direct the conversation to the Porsche. The officer's delight in the conversation usually results in a "warning". On only one occasion id I receive a citation for an expired insurance card ($7.50). This strategy does not work when I am stopped in my pick-up.

vjd3

I had this happen to me in Kansas back when I had an 87 930. I had just installed a new exhaust, intercooler and adjustable boost control and I did a very obvious boost run right in front of a cop early on a Sunday morning. It was so blatant that he was kind of laughing when he walked up to the window, and I was laughing, too. Then we were both laughing. When we both finally could speak, he looked the car over admiringly and said "if I had this thing I wouldn't be able to control myself either." He asked a few questions, let me off with a warning and told me where he would wring it out to escape the eyes of his fellow law enforcement officers. I almost asked if he wanted to drive it but he was in uniform and it would have been too weird.

rnl

I ordinarily don't, however, i own the freeking parking lot and office building it serves and it was a Sunday afternoon - empty, totally empty lot. Just me, my car and a desk full of work.

zelig

I once was going to a movie and noticed this guy checking my new 997 out and had a weird feeling. Told my wife to get tickets and but moved the car closer to the entrance and watched the dude who had no intention of going to a movie. After a little while he actually comes over and asked if I have a problem.

In a little while a car with four shady looking guys drive up and meet him and they just drive away. Called the cops and they figured my car was being cased for being stripped or worse. Glad I noticed him.

Learned my lesson about going to movies. If someone is looking for trouble and the theater is not attached to a mall or other businesses, it is obvious that you are away for a couple of hours. Plenty of time to do their "thing".

hff

In South Africa I find you generally get lots of positive attention, people move out of the way, parking spaces appear miraculously.

carcommander

I have driven Porsches and Ferraris for years and never had a problem. Lots of thumbs up. People do tailgate but they tailgate everybody. I don't think it's about the car.

fester

+1.

fester

I never take my 911 to the places like movie theaters where folks know that the car is going to be parked at least for 90 minutes or so. If you have other vehicle, take that one instead.