My take on Porsche's in the Bay Area Ca
 

... first off i love high performance cars (old and new)

But i find it very difficult to get excited about Porsche because of where i live. I really like the old 356, 550's and the CGT's... that's about it!:smilie:

The Silicon Valley is the high tech capital of the universe. It is safe to say there is a nice mix of old and new money....

You can't go out without seeing a 997TT in every color during a single lunchtime outing. seriously. you could see up 25+ in 2-3 hours all along the El Camino. Red, black, brown, yellow, cabs, modded . . . etc. etc.

There are at least 12 GT3RS's in this area, tons of GT3's and i have already seen 5 997 GT2's in th elast 2 weeks...
C2's and C4S all damn day long.... it's like people's commuter car, and i'm not even referring to the 996's either (brand new models). . .

I like the brand and i like styling,
this place is weird!!! AMG's and M cars are as many as Toyota's and Honda's.




werd.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...8/IMG_9257.jpg

thats why i live where i live...big fish in a small pond :)

Anonymity can be an asset if you want to drive like an a**hole though... :yup:

I hear ya, although it's nowhere as 'bad' as cali in my area, it still seems like you can't turn a corner without bumping into a 911. GT2/3/RS are more rare but if you want to be unique you got to get something like a ZO6. That coupled with the distorted reality here on TS ;) results in me hardly ever looking twice at a random pcar. Are you swamped with S8's as well? There seem to be a ton of them running around where I work, it's nuts.

Porsche's are as common as Honda's and Toyota's here

Get an S5...I have only seen 3 so far in the wild :P
1 Sprint Blue & 2 Black

LOL! Guilty as charged! My 997TT is my commuter (and track weapon), and our Cayenne S is the family hauler.

If I recall this correctly, Panorama (the PCA magazine) had a factoid indicating that roughly 1/3rd of all Porsche's manufactured and still running today are located in California.

They are standard issue in the Bay Area...
Consider that within a 40 mile radius of San Francisco, we have 7 Porsche dealers... :lol:

Sonnen Porsche
415-380-8000 900 Redwood Highway
Mill Valley, CA, 94941

Rector Motor Car Company
650-348-0111 1010 Cadillac Way
Burlingame, CA, 94010

Michael Stead Porsche
925-280-4900 2555 North Main Street
Walnut Creek, CA, 94597

Carlsen Porsche
650-701-9200 3636 Haven Ave
Redwood City, CA, 94063

Porsche of Fremont
510-623-1111 5740 Cushing Parkway
Fremont, CA, 94538

Porsche of Stevens Creek
408-247-1655 4155 Stevens Creek Blvd
Santa Clara, CA, 95051

Porsche of Livermore
925-447-6400 3100 Las Positas Road
Livermore, CA, 94551

But I love 'em, and always will... predestrian perhaps, but I just look at as an ever-growing brotherhood! :friends:

^^^ that is nuts ^^^

There is one in my area...and its 35 mins away.

Hence the need to mod... to personalize and to differentiate. That's why there are so many modded Hondas, BMWs, Toyotas, Acuras, etc. Same goes for porsche :HappyDance:

It's even worse when all your friends are mod-aholics and drive high-end cars and it becomes "the norm" or when you go to meets ...

whats really bad is that 45% of them are soccer moms driving to nordy's wearing sweats,tshirt,sunglasses and those damn fuzzy ugg boots. i hate that chit.

dont hate the players i guess...