The thing I hate the most about the 996.
#46
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The assumptions that non-Porsche people make about us...we are deemed to be arrogant yuppie creeps before we even open our mouths.
#47
Originally Posted by triode
The assumptions that non-Porsche people make about us...we are deemed to be arrogant yuppie creeps before we even open our mouths.
#48
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Originally Posted by mbergeron
Totally agree....most non-Porsche people don't get it that we drive that make of car because they're awesome and we actually like to drive them.
Now, people work hard for their money, they spend it carefully, and so you would think a $100,000 car is not a casual purchase.
#49
How about the way water comes in the driver's window in the rain. It drips right on the leather grab handle and arm rest. No matter how slightly you open it.
The boxtser is way worse though, maybe all the cabs do this more. I currently have a coupe.
The boxtser is way worse though, maybe all the cabs do this more. I currently have a coupe.
#51
Originally Posted by ElTorrente
LOL this is the exact reason we need cupholders!
I don't want to actually "hold" my Starbucks coffee when I'm driving home or to work- and so I need a cupholder. I would like to concentrate on driving, rather than spilling hot coffee on my ********* because I have to hold it between my legs- or on the carpet as I wedge it between the seat and door sill..
I don't want to actually "hold" my Starbucks coffee when I'm driving home or to work- and so I need a cupholder. I would like to concentrate on driving, rather than spilling hot coffee on my ********* because I have to hold it between my legs- or on the carpet as I wedge it between the seat and door sill..
ElTorrente, you're cracking me up - that's exactly right. If it was a weekend project car, I'd understand, but we're driving these things every day. Where should the coffee go? (besides that other guys ***...?)
#53
Originally Posted by Ucube
The glut of fingerprints on the windows after it has been parked in public. I don't mind so much Riad's problem of crazy bitches constantly jumping in for a ride.
#54
The sound. There is none! These cars are so quiet it doesn't sound like a sportscar at all. Sportscars are supposed to be loud, obnoxious beasts that are so responsive that driving one strikes fear into lesser mortals.
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I'd like to add, finding a good parking garage, especially one that has "self park". I've been training downtown (18th and I) for the past couple days, yesterday was terrible. Today I found a nice large building with pleanty of parking room and elevators instead of a dungeon and having to walk in circles to exit.
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The low beams: Can't see anything above knee level at any distance, yet people flash me because they are too bright
Sound system: Hopeless waiting for a MOST iPod solution
Gnawing RMS fears: Thanks, guys
Sound system: Hopeless waiting for a MOST iPod solution
Gnawing RMS fears: Thanks, guys
#58
Originally Posted by ElTorrente
Yeah yeah yeah.. we've heard that before. It's if some people think that owning a Porsche means that you will no longer desire a cup of Starbucks or maybe grabbing an In-and-Out combo meal on the way home.
#59
Originally Posted by washington dc porsche
I'd like to add, finding a good parking garage, especially one that has "self park". I've been training downtown (18th and I) for the past couple days, yesterday was terrible. Today I found a nice large building with pleanty of parking room and elevators instead of a dungeon and having to walk in circles to exit.
Biggest gripe about the 996? That the replacement pods for the in-dash cappuchino maker take so damned long to get here from Stuttgart. They really should cut a deal with Starbucks.
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Originally Posted by leedav
Gnawing RMS fears: Thanks, guys
The Downward Cycle of 996 Ownership On Rennlist
The Illustrated Narrative
<--- little timmy is excited about owning his new porschA and joins rennlist to chitchat with fellow owners.
<---- little timmy sumbles upon thread after thread of RMS issues.
<------ now worried, he asks 993 owners what they did when their cars have issues
<--- 993 owners tear into poor timmy abuot his useless vaser-kooler "crappenvagen", thus causing poor timmy much anguish.
<-- suddenly, little timmy finds a rash of threads about 993 valve problems and his faith in God is restored, as he waves to the old foggies and peels out in his slightly leeky, yet still very Uber 996
The End.