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by testfrequency 1 day ago
My love for Porsche almost completely stopped as soon as I moved to the Bay Area.
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Why? Because you could afford one? Or because you everyone else could? If your love for them was based on other people not having one, and not for love of the machine, can you really call yourself a fan?
Because of the kind of other people who had them and how he felt that reflected on him.

Having a cool old project car is less cool when everyone else is some jerk who bought into it.

Note I said “almost completely”. You also decided to interpret my response as I only cared about scarcity..which is a choice.

To answer: There’s only so many times you want to strike up a friendly conversation with a driver about their lovely car, only to be met with them having no clue about their bespoke vehicle, or even worse - the pitted feeling that they are somehow superior.

Porsche drivers in most of places I’ve lived do not behave this way. You will have a better time and luck in the Bay Area chatting cars with someone who drives a Ferrari or McLaren (or a Mazda to make it clear it’s not simply value) than a Porsche owner.

As a petrol head, I’m saying it’s sad that most tech bros buy these over the top track cars and don’t know much about them besides the paint color or alcantara.

then again, you what Alcantara is.