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I got a nice wave the other day from the driver of a red 928, which of course I returned. Neither of us were driving all that quickly. This was on an major highway (Rt. 287s, in the vicinity of Morristown, NJ).

Most of the time, I and the other Porsche drivers I see on the highways don't drive stupid, to avoid expensive tickets, and to avoid expensive accidents. Unfortunately, there are also those who are driving not that quickly because their newer 911 or Boxter is a fashion statement.

Empty back roads - well, they may be approached a bit differently.

I've encountered the occasional young 'rice burner'/new Mustang drivers who have a bit of "show me what you've got" attitude.

Amusingly, I had an encounter with a nicely built replica (I assume) Cobra back when the weather was warmer. He was a few cars ahead of me, waiting at a stoplight to turn onto a local main road. After we both turned, I caught up to him and then something interesting happened. We were both "pushing it" a bit, but not all that much, but it was much more that we were checking out each others cars, especially how they sounded at/near full throttle upshifts. Like: "here, listen to this...", "ok, how about... this..." and passing each other a few times along the way down the highway in a "looking at the details" kind of way.

A rolling car show, in which both participants liked the look of, and respected, the others' wheels. Driving quickly, but not stupid, and not really caring about what the great unwashed masses, i.e. non car guys, thought.

OK, my point:
I, and I think many of us, have our cars for US. Because WE find them interesting, and so do other car people. They're also extremely well-built, reliable if maintained well, and challenging to drive well. They also hold their value better than most other cars. They're expensive (or they were when new), and so will garner the envy of others. So does M-B & BMW.

And, to quote Wikipedia:
"Porsche has been successful in many branches of motorsport, scoring a total of more than 28,000 victories, of which most have been scored by the Porsche 911 series over five decades."