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It will be interesting to see how the Boxster/Cayman change the Porsche ownership demographics in the long-term.
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I neglect my Oldsmobile and I do whatever it takes to get the money to keep the Porsche running right.
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I bought my first P-car at 27...if anyone accuses me of having a MLC I use the "you don't know me very well" line.
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It's not just a sports car, it has SOoooo many OTHER uses."
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I think what irritates me the most is the use of the word crisis.
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I'm 50 and I bought a Porsche=midlife crisis? When people hear I bought a Porsche what many say is "Oh' the mid-life crisis thing!" What the F? I've been planning to buy this car for fifteen years. I even had a warm up 911, A bright yellow 911T; yet most think it's an impulse buy to boost my textosteroon. Has anyone else been told they're over- compensating?
easy - I just say...NO this inst the mid-life....this is just the preparation for it, when I hit the mid-life....you will know! Trust me, you WILL KNOW
I wanted a 911 since I was 10 years old. Finally bought one at age 47. When people insinuate that it's a mid-life crisis car, I just say, "you don't know me very well, do you?"
Not true, us young chaps buy them too. I got one because I love cars, I love autocross, track days, etc, and no other car would do. So I saved up and got one. What's wrong with that?
Most people are still under the impression that a 996 costs $70k to buy. Yet no one is "overcompensating" when they spend $30k on a toyota pickup truck.
I hope I live to be older than 44....
F* 'em all. They don't deserve an explanation. Just drive your car and enjoy the hell out of it. If you want to reply, say something like "Yes, it was a toss-up between this and a 20 year old blond with a huge rack. I figured the Porsche would hold up better."
haha - love the replies!!
I thought of this
"F%*K YEA its a mid life, I have been getting my D^&K SUCKED every night by 3 different girls too!! - Life is F&^KING GREAT !!
Oh yeah. Absolutely a mid-life crisis mobile for me. I have no problem admitting it. Like others, I've wanted one since I was a kid -- and probably could have afforded one long ago. So I don't see it as such. But it probably is to everyone who views it from the outside.
And frankly, who cares?
Your response:
"My midlife crisis will be a 20 y/o cheerleader and a Lear Jet. This is just entertainment."
Or....
"Sounds like overcompensating has been on your mind a lot lately. What kinds of problems have you been having?"
Got my first 911 when I was 29 so anyone who knows me would not say that, I'm 45 now and a motorhead all my life.
I agree, Mid life crises would be a lear and a cheerleader
Damn, I need me a mid life crises!
I�d just bought my first Porsche at 49! If it�s a mid-life crise, I just loving it! For some they can afford to buy one at a young age, but for me it took a while to get the money (building a house and then get some loans whitout paying them
). And I think they are a lot pricier in Sweden compared to the US. Never mind,
what�s wrong with having fun at 50?
I'm 57 and finally could buy my first 911. I have had to listen to that "mid life" thing but I have the Porsche and they don't....
They tell me it's a chick magnet too, but I'm not good looking enough for that.....lol
Personally, I don't care what they think. I've never driven a finer automobile and it makes ME feel good.
The average lifespan for men in the US is 76, so it's a mid-life crisis if you get it when you're 38. I didn't buy a Porsche until I was 41, so I missed that. I guess I'm over the hill now at 45...
Bought my first Porsche (of 17) when I was 22. Bought this one in 2004. I'm 62. I have had two newer ones since this one, but this one was the "keeper."
I didn't have a mid-life crisis. I was ALWAYS out of control.
But my closest to MLC-like would have been in 1989 when I special ordered a brand new 1989 911 Targa, took delivery at the factory in Stuttgart, and spent a month driving it through Europe before shipping it home.
Very co-incidentally I had just looked at those photos late this past Friday night. I took about a 200 pictures on that trip. My wife took pictures of the speedo and tach when we were on the Autobahn. I had to "limit" the car to 135 MPH because it was brand new.
When gals suggest that to me, I just smile as I open the door for them to get in. It's really a shame that the car is so damn low, I need to be there to help them in and out of it. Not one of them has complained!!
larry
Wow. You know really I was talking moreso about the used market but those really are eye-openers.
You know I saw a used 2009 tacoma that had all the goodies- TRD offroad, manual 6spd, and the crew cab 4-door setup. $26k. I thought that was ridiculous. But I guess if you're going to spend $60k on a tundra...
I get that comment all the time. I'm 42 and fit the profile I guess, but like others have said, I've wanted a Porsche 911 since I knew what a sports car was, and now I can afford one, and afford to make it nice. I hope they don't regret not getting one is how I feel, you only live once, my 9 year old cancer surviving daughter taught me that the hard way. Hell, buy a Porsche, if you can buy 2. (how cool would that be?)
I was in for service on the Suburban a while back and wandering the sales lot....I was more than shocked to see $50+k price tags as a "DEAL" - WOW!
LOL @ 100+ (and the name is Ed...dont ask, I dont think I could clear that one up for you
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It might not have anything to do with a mid-life crisis. It could just be about ***** size. Same result = Porsche.
When I first got a Porsche, some of my friends said "sorry to hear about your *****."
-td
+1 Posters upon posters of 944s and 959s in my room as a kid. I always attributed that quote to Ferry Porsche - Not a mid-life crises, a life-long obsession.
Jealousy causes people to be mean-spirited. Just remember to smile at the less fortunate.
FWIW, Mrs SSST's GL450 was a lot more than my Porsche. My truck only cost a few thousand less 4 years ago.
I've always thought of Corvette to be more of a mid-life crisis car than the Porsche. The Porsche is coveted more by people with real car sense, more of a student of the art than most. The Vette could be driven by your kid brother. But a 911 is a different animal. It does not reside on blocks outside trailers for long periods. It is valued for it's form and will be used again and again by smart people who are in love with the way it moves down the road. I can't stay out of it! (5 weeks 5,000 mi) omg.
Its pretty ignorant and probably envy for those who say this stuff.
I have worked hard my entire life and love cars, period!
Yeah, I think Corvettes are more related to this mid life crisis stuff...
As I was getting into my 72 911T today with my son after his soccer game, one of his friends dad saw us and and asked my son "is your dad having a mid life crises?" Earlier in the week I had someone say that I must be compensating for something. I responded with "yes I am, but the comforting effects of owning two Porsche's helps me get through the night".
Bah! Ignore them. They're just jealous!
Granted I'm not 50...or even 40...but I'm sure people have privately made their own comments. All of my family and close friends, however, know that I've been a Porsche guy all of my life. Hell, I have a framed poster that I've had since I was 13 now hanging in my garage.
Okay, maybe I shouldn't have admitted that...but let people say what they want. What matters (for me) is that I finally have the car of my dreams parked next to the poster. The only crisis would be not having it.
-Eric
Turned 40 last year. Had promised it to myself as it has been my dream car forever. So if someone thinks its a mid life crisis, who cares?? I am the one driving my Porsche, fulfilling my dream. And its a great crisis to have. Rather have one that I can afford than one I can't!!
I look at it this way: I was 47 when I bought mine. That's old enough to be able to pay cash after a lot of years of busting my ***. One shot at it, in the slot between house-poor, divorce-poor, and kids-going-to-college poor. One great car for this life (not counting the wife's Maserati... but the same equation for her).
I started riding motorcycles when I was 48, long story but my wife convinced me against her will to buy a Harley. The day I brought it home a few neighbors came over to check out the noise and all of the comments were about me having a mid-life crisis. I just smiled and said yeah - with luck you might live long enough and work hard enough to enjoy one too. Then at 52 I pull up in the Porsche and a neighbor literllaly sprints to my driveway and says oh, ANOTHER mid life crisis? And I smile as big as I can and say NO - it's the same one and it's probably only a crisis for you. I love this crisis. Had my first and only other 911 when I was 21 - only comments back then was "cool" and "and what's up with that oil smell".
I took my 85 year old father for a blast in the new 996. After the ride he was exiting the vehicle with my help but fell right on his face. The altitude shift knocked him off balance. He was'nt hurt at all thank god., but it is a very low car. Even with my "suv" height standard c2.
LOL - The decision to buy mine happened when my Father was in a nursing home and learned he was never coming home again. My Father was the frugal do with out will enjoy himself someday later kind of guy. Seeing him wheelchair bound and learning that his lifetime savings were taken in exchange for care got me to thinking... and thinking hard... when is someday? So, after proving to my wife that we had the cash the decision was made that someday was going to be today.
So - when I brought the 996 home - my wife sort of helped me out of the car and she was laughing so hard it had me cracking up. She said "good timing, if you would have waited any longer you might be able to get in this thing and never get out".
Weird times - Mom is the same nursing home now - and I am thinking it is time to add the winter 996.
John, I agree...someday is today
the year I bought the 996 I went to 9 funerals - I did some of that same thinking....I decided that the worst thing that could happen was to die before I got the one thing I had wanted my whole life..2 weeks later (on Mother's day) I came home in the 996...and very glad i did!
best of luck on your parents care and times, I am sure it's tough.
I’m 25, so this cannot be a mid-life crisis! Mid–life crisis will be a little later. Another Porsche or a Aston Martin!!!
Corvettes and Mustangs are the #1 Mid-life crisis car choices! And lately it's been the Chargers/Camaro's too...
Originally I had my mid-life crisis scheduled for November of 2000, but I was just too busy at the time and never got around to it.
Maybe next year.
To me, the Corvette is more a stereotypical MLC car than any of the upscale European makes. The Porsche is indeed more of a reward than a symbol, and when I finally find the turbo I want, I will drive it until that day that I'm physically unable to drive it. [or until they take my license away, whichever comes first
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Sounds like me but my motivation was 9/11. I was stuck in Manhattan watching everything go down so I figured I should act now (just in case) instead of continue to put it off. I started shopping soon thereafter but didn't find the Porsche I wanted until February.
I was 28 then so hopefully a Porsche is not a mid-life crisis because if so that doesn't leave me with a lot of time to enjoy them!
I wanted a Porsche since I was 15. Finally was able to afford it at 43.
People talked that I got it because I was going thru a mid-life crisis. I did not attribute the car to a midlife, but to a life long desire.
What I attribute to a mid- life was the fact that I was dating a 20 year old woman for a while.....
Stereotypes will be stereotypes, you'll just have to brush them off. I bought my Porsche when I was 33, and I TOLD everyone I was going thru my midlife crisis so they wouldn't push that crap when I really was.
People will think what they will think, and you just have to live your life, love your wife, and drive your porsche.
So my mid life crisis started at 25, not always a p-car and has been going strong for 17 years.
My responce is normally something like "Yeah, whatever. You wouldn't get it anyway...". Those who know me know better.
Oh crap.. then I guess the neighbor was right and the P-Car is ANOTHER mid life crisis for me. At least they don't have 12 step programs for Porsche owners, at least not yet. Hello my name is John and no matter how hard I try I can't leave the house with out driving my Porsche. I take pictures of it, I talk to it, and sometimes at night I go in the garage and turn on the lights to lust after it. I neglect my Oldsmobile and I do whatever it takes to get the money to keep the Porsche running right. I admit that I am poweless over my Porsche and my life has become fun as hell.
Trust me, the Porsche is a cheaper mid life crisis option.
I purchased my 1st pacar the ay after I got my license. Bought my next one, when
I was 25, and have had 3 more since then.
ONLY KIDDING!!!!!
Mid life crisis my A$$
I'm just a hard working stiff, who like the rest of you have been saving for years to get my dream car. I wasn't able to afford a Pcar until I was around 40. Any younger and I would have been a Lottery winner, or just a spoiled kid - lol
How many 20-30 yr old people want a car with a $300 oil change?
Is it a midlife crisis to be willing to pay more for a better bottle of wine?
For those who boast that their car can go faster, stoplight to stoplight - because you can chug your cheap wine faster than I ever would want to, does that make yours better?
I bought my first P-car at 27...if anyone accuses me of having a MLC I use the "you don't know me very well" line.
Look around at the people accusing you of having a MLC because you have a Porsche...they almost invariably drive things like tan Toyotas because they don't have the ***** to own a Porsche or their wife won't let them. Believe it or not, it doesn't take a rich man to own a Porsche--just a guy that wants one badly enough, like many of us. My contention would be that those accusing me of compensating for something by buying a Porsche are actually compensating for their inability to stand up to their wives once in a while.
Every time I hear a comment like this, it reminds me of how great my family is that they actually encourage me to pursue my passion for cars. Sure, they roll their eyes a little sometimes, but they know it makes me happy and they'd never let me be the poor schmuck looking at another man's Porsche while hiding my own desire to have one.
Life's too short to drink cheap beer or drive ****ty cars. Cheers!
Amen to that! I got my 996 last year at age 27 too. I definitely worked my tail off for it and it surely won't be my last! Luckily my wife doesn't get between me and my cars (as long as I keep her driving something nice).
At 39 I'm old enough to not give a **** about what people think/say. I've had my Porsche for almost 1 year and I've loved every minute of it, and that's all that matters to ME.
It will be interesting to see how the Boxster/Cayman change the Porsche ownership demographics in the long-term.
For many guys in their 20s, a used Boxster at 15K is a fairly reasonable purchase. Hey, its a Consumer Reports Best Buy, after all!. Boxsters and Caymans, although terrific in their own rights, are in many cases stepping stones to the more expensive 911. My guess is that this marketing will shift the average age of 911 acquisition down several years over the long run.
It will be interesting to see how Porsche balances perceived exclusivity, which is central to its brand, with a shift in target market demographics. A very difficult balance.
I guess the current ad campaign provides some insight.
I think that the current ad campaign is interesting, but when you show the 911 as a School Bus, Pickup Truck, etc etc, you certainly are no longer selling it to the exclusive sports car crowd.
On the other hand, it provides ammunition for the guy to use with his wife. "See how flexible my new Porsche is going to be? It's not just a sports car, it has SOoooo many OTHER uses."
Yeah, sure.
larry
I think the ads are meant to be tongue in cheek but, that said, haven't 911s always been marketed as bullet proof drivers' cars? They've competed in the Paris to Dakar rally!
One of the reasons I was able to convince my wife that we should buy a 911 is that it actually has a useable back seat for our little kids. I drive my daughter to school every day and while there are certainly more minivans than sports cars in the parking lot, I don't think anybody sees the car and thinks, "Wow, it really is like a school bus."
-Eric
I wonder how the people that build these cars feel about which model they're working on. Is there a model pecking order with 911 builders only the most experienced? More than likely they rotate around different model factories.
Not sure if doing the higher priced cars is a badge of honor -- but I have heard rumors that when a car is particularly good coming off the line, they single it out to be painted black.
The borderline ones are painted silver. The worst ones -- the real lemons -- are red and, appropriately, yellow. The rationale for doing this is much the same as the person who orders a steak well done in a nice restaurant. He is likely to get a lesser cut because he is incapable of discerning the quality difference anyway.
It's just a subtle and simple way for the people who work on the line to differentiate the quality of their handiwork.
I think what irritates me the most is the use of the word crisis. I hate to admit how much my car means to me and has done for my quality of life, to call it a crisis of any kind is absurd.
Your right, the body does go to paint first, the cars color is determined before it's built: unless your talking about steering above average motors to black cars.
