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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
You understand how justifying the Porsche as objectively excellent under a very specific collection of features and not just as “a car” is silly when you’re evaluating CG not based on the specific collection of features it provides but just as “a winter jacket” right?
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Completely disagree with you. Comparing buying a car to buying a winter coat is absurd - cars are, for a huge subset of people, enthusiast, hobbyist purchases. No one looks at a parka as an enthusiast purchase, something that is "more fun to wear" than its competitors. You might buy it for style or status, but although the 987.2S has a Porsche badge and is a nice looking car to most people's eyes, that's not the reason why anyone would want to buy it (or hardly anyone).
If the question is what jacket is going to keep you warm in the winter, there are better options than CG. If the question is what is the best sports car you can you buy for under $50k based on the commonly accepted criteria that sports car enthusiasts use to judge what makes a good sports car, there are very few other options that can compete with a 987.2 Cayman S, and if you decide that something beats it (
eg, a new GR86, as in this comparison using a 987.1), that's going to come down to priorities like not caring about having 100 less horsepower, or interior technology, or how tactile and mechanical a shifter feel you like, or if you can put up with drive by wire.
I think the problem you're having here is that you're not a car enthusiast.
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On a purely functional, objective basis, owning a Porsche and justifying it as an objectively excellent choice is a lot more ridiculous than doing so for a Canada Goose jacket.
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Again, wrong. Look at what I was saying earlier: there is no specific circumstance or purpose you could use a CG jacket for where you can objectively say, based on its features and (non-stylistic) design, that it's the best option you could spend your money on. There absolutely is a case based on its objective characteristics - a very strong case - that the 987.2S is the best car for its purpose
for the money.