Jason Weisberger is Boing Boing's publisher. He often does what he ought, instead of what he should. On instagram and twitter he is @jlw

  • http://twitter.com/rodgillespie Rod Gillespie

    Now redo that with a Cayenne. Or should I say undo?

    • Dcoronata

       The Cayenne is hideous, and uses enough fuel for a fleet of Boxsters and Caymen, but it can be blisteringly fast, and with the right tires (tyres?) it can rally as well as the 959.

  • Robert Cruickshank

    They should just refuse to sell them to people who aren’t going to use them properly. 

  • Aleknevicus

    The irony at work here is that the vast majority of this ad’s target audience will never ever race their vehicle. So the ad, while stating that it’s not for posing, is targeted directly at posers.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Sports cars are generally driven five miles below the speed limit by wizened milquetoasts.

      • http://profiles.google.com/george.herbert George Herbert

        Or not.  Adhesion Limits are fun.

      • Jake0748

         ”wizened milquetoasts”. My phrase for the week.  Thank you.

  • avraamov

    having been in a 356 a few times, and also owned a beetle, i can honestly say the 356 is pretty much a flattened beetle with some more acceleration. 

    • http://twitter.com/gths Ǥɍǡḩḁᶆ Ӻᴙᴇᴇᴍᴀᴎ

      Well, the Beetles were designed by Porsche as well (for the Nazis!), so that’s not an entirely inapt comparison.

  • agrovista

    I used to call Jason’s speedster his expensive karmann ghia

    This was in response to avraamov’s comment

    • http://boingboing.net/ Jason Weisberger

      That was the most beautiful car ever made. That one in particular.

  • pjcamp

    Always reminded me of an upside down bathtub.

  • SkylerNelson

     Yeah, in reality, there are usually 4-7 Porches parked at the Jos. A. Bank here in Orange county, usually driven by the type of guy who honks during rush hour.

  • http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan

    I’m having a mild attack of the conditioned responses.

  • http://twitter.com/_Engineer666 _Engineer

    Very cool. I love Porsches! 
    This is my favorite commercial: Shell/Ferrari http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_kwxzU4wL4 

  • DJBudSonic

    Was that a glimpse of the great Roger Penske?  I have an awesome bunch of culled photos that were being pitched at the proofing printer from a history of racing book with a chapter on Penske, who drove a Porsche in his youth.

  • perch

    I used to take my Mercedes 300D out hiking. I drove that thing all over Colorado, up mountains, two-tracks, through mud holes and puddles that were deeper than the bottom of my doors.

    I’d get to the top and the only other vehicles would be 4wd trucks and such. I’d always get some dweeb telling me I shouldn’t be taking that car out like that. That it was ‘too nice’ and a ‘classic’.

    PFFFF! The thing ran great and got me where I wanted to go. That’s the POINT of having a good car, it can do that stuff. I wasn’t about to waste my time polishing the thing at the car wash.