April 2013 - Porsche Club of America – Northeast Region

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other legal-but-not-what-was-intended type of scheme. You
can resell a black Cayenne turbo for $200,000 quite easily. The
idea of factory delivery is supposed to be another marketing
tool to help the dealership sell Porsches, not an opportunity to
engage in an unsanctioned sale. The money is returned to you
when you pick your car up at the dealership back home.
Kirk would be a good guy from whom to buy a car. He’s patient
and takes time with you, but he doesn’t overwhelm you
with contact after you leave the dealership. In fact, he never
called me at all. A week later he wrote a lovely e-mail that in
part said, “Thank you both for stopping by to test drive all the
new 911s. It’s always great fun when someone is as enthusiastic
as yourself.” He knows that either my friend or I, or both of
us, will be back to get the cars eventually…
The day after that experience, PCA/NER had an event at Auto
Engineering in Lexington. I couldn’t believe all the food there.
If it were my place of work, I would gain twenty pounds very
quickly with all those cookies and bowls of candy hanging
around. Justin Becker explained numerous repairs to us very
clearly, and lunch was great. Thank you, Justin!
While there, I got the bright idea of checking out another
dealership to see what was on the lot and check out the options
on the window stickers. I wondered how much convincing
it would take to get Mark Engelberg, who was standing
next to me, to go there after the event. I asked him. He said
No doubt what this model is!
yes. I really love men who are that easy.
Seriously, Mark’s a good person to do anything car-related
with. He was my guardian angel on the track up in Loudon last
year. Mark is savvy. He is always shopping around for cars. He
asks good questions. To get to the Porsche showroom we cut
through Audi, where I almost lost him. He found something
there he liked, just as he did at the Aston Martin event. BTW,
have any of you seen the new Audi A7? I guess it can be classified
as luxury sport, but you have to see it to believe it. What a
car!
After two days of hands-on experiences, I went home and
read all the articles I have in a folder about 991s that I’ve saved
from the Boston Globe, from Autoweek, and from Excellence
magazine. I also read the lengthy brochure from the dealership
from cover to cover. Twice. I slightly revised my itemized wish
list, adding an additional ambient light package, and tucked
it in the folder. I’m now armed with an amazing amount of
information. Last week I knew nothing. This week I could do a
two-hour seminar on the model.
Then Mark brought me back to earth when he asked me if I
could honestly stand to see a new owner drive off down the
street with Lucy.
Right now, the answer to that is no, unless I get to hand-pick
the person. And I realize that it isn’t practical for me to have
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