J'sWorld

I pretty much just like to smash on other Cayenne owners that think they are fast, especially the new ones. Decimated some "MOM" in a new F-Pace. She tried for over an hour to keep up. I'm pretty sure she took it straight to the Porsche dealer for a trade in.

19psi

Lol! In the Corvette forums, those were worse than an oil thread and appeared far more often. It usually starts off with a guy in a disco era C3 getting butt hurt over another guy in a current model not waving back. It then turns into 1000 posts psychoanalyzing typical owners between all 7 generations.

RSbob

1. In the 914 I get waves from other vintage classics like Triumphs, MGs, 70s 911s and of course 914s. I wave back.
2. in my 82 SC only get waves from similar vintage 911s, because everything else knows that only @$$hats drive 911s. I give similar year a ego reaffirming wave because new 911, Caymen and Boxster (oops 917) owners are too wrapped up in their world.
3. in the Cayenne I wave at similar and older vintage but never at newer Cayenne or Macans for the same reason as 3.

classic and vintage owners know they have something special and take pride in ownership and share that pride with similar others. New car owners typically lease and have little skin in the game turning wrenches. In two years when the lease is up and mebee they will try a F-Type, or an M car, or a Alfa, or Vette. JMOICBW.

Libast

That ski rack is OEM

DWPC

I had a Ferrari 308 until about 7 years go and almost everyone waved at me including Fedex drivers. Then I'd toot the "O Solo Mio" air horns.

RKD in OKC

If they look, I give them a quick thumbs up. That way they can't easily tell if I actually gave them a thumbs up or flipped them off.

Petza914

I wave at all Porsches but there aren't that many where I live. The Macan and Cayennes rarely wave back, usually because they're being driven by women that don't get it, and aren't paying much attention to what's driving around them. Any other Porsche probably has a 70% wave back rate.

Pillow

FTFY (I had to do it )

Nice!

Wisconsin Joe

I've got a 944, 928 & 955.

I've found:

944 drivers will wave back at anybody. P-car or not. Its almost pathological how enthusiastically they wave back at another 944.
914 drivers will wave back at other Porsches. Boxters too, for the most part.
911 drivers will sometimes wave back at the 928, occasionally at the 944, almost never at the 955.
Cayenne drivers (all of them, Macans too) will usually wave back, if they are actually paying attention to anything other than the lane directly in front of them or their phone. That happens maybe half the time. That's also assuming they actually know what a Porsche other than a Cayenne or 911 looks like. That takes it down to maybe a quarter.
No clue how other 928 drivers wave. Never seen one while driving one of mine.

Dilberto

Waving takes one hand off the steering wheel and is mostly done by PC sheeple. I'm not PC - I'm MAC....

TomF

XS29L9B

Exactly. Add motorcycle waves, and it gets real annoying. Lift hand of my bars to wave? Pass.

Chensley

As someone who owns a Miata...I agree with this take. Miata owners are notoriously enthusiastic wavers.

oldskewel

My old college roommate had one back in the day. Don't Miata's have a button to raise and lower the headlights to "wave" to other Miata owners. I thought that was pretty cool.

And on the motorcycle waving, I agree. Often when I move over (in my car) in my lane to allow a motorcycle to more easily split lanes (legal here in CA), they will wave to thank me, and I wish they would not. Dangerous enough as it is.

Probably 90+% success rate (they wave too) on waves from my old 911 to other air-cooled Porsches. But maybe that's because we can hear eachother coming.

deilenberger

It took me about a week touring Europe on motorbike - to figure out they don't wave, they waggle their left foot at you. Less loss of control ability that way.