Tuesday 29th July 2008

Boxstera GT

Boxster turned into Carrera GT - nobody fooled

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There's nothing that says 'I wish I had a better Porsche but could only afford a Boxster' quite like this. This is a Boxster that has been made into a Carrera GT look-a-like and while you have to admire the work put into it, I'm afraid it ain't fooling anyone.

From some angles it doesn't look too bad but then you venture around to the rear three-quarters and start to wonder if you are in a Stuttgart hall of mirrors. It is like when a Hollywood A-lister gets some dodgy plastic surgery - all the features are still there but it just doesn't look right.

The car started life as a Boxster but has been stretched by 12" 'in both directions', says the eBay seller. 'If you are a quiet shy person, this is not the right car for you. When I drive this car, I am photographed at least 5 times before I get home,' he says.

The car has 66,000 miles and the seller is after $80,000 for it. So the price of an almost new 911 in the States then...

See the ad here

 

 

[wadsy]

My first thought...

Is it just me? Why do people 'waste' their time with stuff like this?

sorry!

[skylinecrazy]

That's st

[Ace Sportscars]

Hahahahah...rubbish! That wouldn't fool anyone. Its bad enough having a boxter let alone doing that to it

[Don]

That poor, poor Boxster.

There was no need to do that to it.

It's desecration, frankly. An insult to both cars. A CGT up close is a thing of beauty. Personally I feel the same way about my Boxster. But that is just wrong.

I hope whoever made it enjoys it thoroughly and keeps it forever. It won't be being sold...

[matt3001]

That is a disgrace to cars

[Soton Pug]

Why oh Why do people do it...

[Don]

Ace Sportscars said:

Hahahahah...rubbish! That wouldn't fool anyone. Its bad enough having a boxter let alone doing that to it

[J16GY]

What the f........? One word - WHY!?

[hairykrishna]

40 grand in real money? Good luck with that...

[dougc]

Yes its a bit rubbish but it could have been a lot lot worse.

Like the convertible 'F40' I saw on the M25 on Monday morning.



eta - Here it is in all its glory

Edited by dougc on Tuesday 29th July 13:03

[Burnham]

Ahh, I see what the problem is, its still got the roof on.

I'm sure that, if you removed the roof panel, drank 2 litres of Smirnoff and then squinted a bit...it may look like a bad recreation of a Carrera GT based on a Boxster.

Edited by Burnham on Tuesday 29th July 13:03

[skylinecrazy]

dougc said:

Yes its a bit rubbish but it could have been a lot lot worse.Like the convertible 'F40' I saw on the M25 on Monday morning.eta - Here it is in all its glory

Edited by dougc on Tuesday 29th July 13:03

Is that the one based on the TR7?

[hairykrishna]

I came very close to buying one of those 'TR40's. In my defence it did have a 4.4 liter V8 with straight pipes.

[kieronj]

Maybe my eyesight is fading but my initial reaction wasn't C-GT but 914.

[Sharief]

Ace Sportscars said:

Hahahahah...rubbish! That wouldn't fool anyone. Its bad enough having a boxter let alone doing that to it

BOXSTER.

[Pegasys]

It's no 996 Turbo i'll give it that

Edited by Pegasys on Tuesday 29th July 13:22

[fairplay101]

Dear....................God................Noooooo!

[astrsxi77]

Hmm, at least it's still a Boxster underneath, not a Pontiac Fiero or a Maestro. But that's no excuse really is it?!

Horrific Gansta-spec wheels to boot; the kind of thing seen on every Bentley from Santa Barbara to Inglewood.

[E21_Ross]

Ace Sportscars said:

Hahahahah...rubbish! That wouldn't fool anyone. Its bad enough having a boxter let alone doing that to it

what is wrong with a boxster then? my mates dad has a boxster S (he also had a 911 carrera S, a DB9, and he now also has an Audi RS4 before you start saying poor mans 911) and it is a cracking car. when he had the db9 he actually preferred the boxster for fun. so it's not bad having it. it's a great car.

[Twincam16]

Only in America. No doubt the advert will refer to 'rims' and the details 'giving you an ego', and no doubt the owner's interior shot of the car will also show a pair of Oakleys and a mid-range mobile phone perceived to be some kind of premium product 'left casually' on the centre console.

In the UK replicas (or 'RELPICCA'S' in FleaBay parlance) are dodgy back-yard things built by people with a sense of irony (obviously I'm talking Toyota F355s, not Proteus Jaguars and Westfield XIs here). In America, it seems they're seriously big business and people will pay a hell of a lot for a Pontiac Fiero with a new bodyshell and fiddled suspension. Go to www.kitcars.com to see the devastating effects of a life lived without a sense of irony:

For example - $38,000 (nearly £20k) gets you this:



Looks the part, a lot of money clearly went into it, but it's just a Pontiac Fiero V6 underneath. And an automatic at that - but wait - they've even tried to disguise the automatic shifter as a manual:



And here's a 'Ferrari Testarossa' - again, a lot of time and money has gone into it, but not only is it based on a Camaro (and therefore the engine isn't just wrong, it's in the wrong place), he's given it a 200mph speedometer (don't know whether it's a transfer set fo the original so it makes it look like he's doing 200 when he's doing 110), he's also added, and I quote, 'a James Bond motorized flip plate at the rear'. Yours for $32,500 (£16,250):




Lots of time, effort and money goes into these and people feel really proud to be seen in them. The question is - why???