My mountain-biking buddy who's also a Porsche freak, picked me up today for coffee in his pristine white '98 Porsche 993. 6 speeds and we hit 60 in 2nd gear!
As we pulled into the Starbucks lot he tells me this joke:
Whats the difference between a Porsche and a porcupine?
On a porcupine, the pricks are on the outside!
Have a great weekend SOC!
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Actually that is a very old BMW joke. Just look at the yuppie pukes that drive the cheap BMW's today.
Major's right. Adapted for another marque...very impressive.
Hey, I drive a BMW too. A cheap one!
Perhaps to establish my expertise in the ways of BMW's I drove these little cars when they WERE little and most of you did not know they existed. I got my first 2002 new in 1969. I replaced in 72 with a 2002tii, then a Bavaria in 73, and got my wife a used 75 2002 in 77.
The MEN driving the cars them were a decade ahead of their time. BMW was nearly bankrupt before the 1600/2002 were introduced. There was almost no distribution in the US. BMW introduced the category of sports sedan to the world.
Everything changed when they decided to go upmarket. In the 80's it became the default Yuppie status symbol much like the Subaru Outback is the lesbian car, and the Boxster is a chick car.
That is also the origin of the Joke.
I would still have that 2002Tii had I not been hit in it. It was that bright orange color and after six months it was obvious it had been wrecked from the paint fade. At that time BMW sales were on fire and there was a several month wait to get cars. I sold my for $2k for than I paid for it.
I forgot to add, keeping that Tii would have required a mature decision on my part which at 23 years of age would have been a big stretch. Plus I had many years of pissing away my money on Porsches, and Mercedes ahead of me.
I've had three BMWs as well. Still a good joke. It may not describe all owners but it sure does some......but, that said, can't blame the car for the owner.
I think what may have occurred was the BMW was really the first affordable status car of the early 80's. That was the beginning of the baby boom Yuppie trend (greed is good). Remember this is before the MB 190 and Audi was still kind of a pile of crap. BMW's marketing was sheer genius in that regard. My recollection was my early BMW's were a lot of fun to drive, but were not very reliable or well made. If you go back to the early 70's I think the Datsun 240Z drivers might have been the butt of that joke.
Well, since this post has gone sideways, I'll jump back in.
BTW Major, you need to make that: "the women driving those cars (BMW's) were a decade ahead of their time..."
Our second Porsche was a 1958 Cabriolet, completely stock and completely...complete. It was white with red interior and had a removable hard-top.
We traded my wife's first car, a 1970 BMW 2002 automatic for the Porsche, straight-across. She purchased the car in 1970 a couple months after the original owner traded it back to the dealer for a stick-shift 2002. She scored it for $3,364, it had 2,000 miles on it.
Wish we had them both back!
