RE: Driven: Porsche Boxster S
Discussion
StevieB said:
With the 991 becoming more and more of a "supercar" and less "sports car" I think the Boxster is now my favourite Porsche, Ive always loved it and think this one looks absolutely stunning!
I don't think the 991 is any more 'supercar' than the 997, it's just more expensive. Porsche doesn't do supercars apart from their 959s, Carrera GTs, 918s etc ...Both the 991 and Boxster are great but I believe the best cars Porsche produce are the GT3 variants.
vimfuegoturbo said:
I really enjoyed Chris's article. It was most insightful and entertaining. I always enjoyed his writing in Autocar and never really understood why he became such a controversial figure (to some anyway).
Porsche has always been an engineering led company, so I'm always fascinated to see what updates they've applied to their latest model. It would appear that they've done it again with the new Boxster, better in every measurable way, but possibly lacking that last emotional 'something'.
However, that's not the real reason I would never buy one, not even a second hand one(which I could just afford!). For me the problem with the Boxster is it's origin and more particularly the name itself.
I can just imagine the committee of marketing men gathered around a table in the early nineties in their smart suits, drinking something 'frothy' from dainty little cups, when some bright spark suggested melding the words 'boxer' and 'roadster', to be met by simultaneous back slapping and nodding of heads.
The very name 'roadster' sends shivers down my spine - a kind of American open top 'sporty' car with vague 'Indy' overtones? Whenever I hear that word I always think of the the MGB. When it was first shown in 1962 it was a beautifully simple, elegant looking sports car with ample performance for the time. Fast forward to the end of its life and it had become a hideous, underpowered, jacked up monstrosity, prostituted for the U.S market. It had also, somehow, gained the new title of 'roadster' along the way too.
The Boxster is, of course, a far more accomplished car than the MGB ever was, or was intended to be despite being classed as a 'roadster' from the start. However, the image of women of a certain age and/or shouty types wearing red braces (you know who they are) driving these cars around (badly) just won't leave my head.
Anyway 'rant' over - the car saved the company, so what do I know...
Um... Boxster is an amalgamation of boxer and speedster.Porsche has always been an engineering led company, so I'm always fascinated to see what updates they've applied to their latest model. It would appear that they've done it again with the new Boxster, better in every measurable way, but possibly lacking that last emotional 'something'.
However, that's not the real reason I would never buy one, not even a second hand one(which I could just afford!). For me the problem with the Boxster is it's origin and more particularly the name itself.
I can just imagine the committee of marketing men gathered around a table in the early nineties in their smart suits, drinking something 'frothy' from dainty little cups, when some bright spark suggested melding the words 'boxer' and 'roadster', to be met by simultaneous back slapping and nodding of heads.
The very name 'roadster' sends shivers down my spine - a kind of American open top 'sporty' car with vague 'Indy' overtones? Whenever I hear that word I always think of the the MGB. When it was first shown in 1962 it was a beautifully simple, elegant looking sports car with ample performance for the time. Fast forward to the end of its life and it had become a hideous, underpowered, jacked up monstrosity, prostituted for the U.S market. It had also, somehow, gained the new title of 'roadster' along the way too.
The Boxster is, of course, a far more accomplished car than the MGB ever was, or was intended to be despite being classed as a 'roadster' from the start. However, the image of women of a certain age and/or shouty types wearing red braces (you know who they are) driving these cars around (badly) just won't leave my head.
Anyway 'rant' over - the car saved the company, so what do I know...
Not aware that Porsche has ever used the word 'Roadster'.
Degner said:
Um... Boxster is an amalgamation of boxer and speedster. Not aware that Porsche has ever used the word 'Roadster'.
See, once someone puts something on Wikipedia it becomes the truth 
<Wiki says:> The Boxster's name is a portmanteau of the word "boxer", referring to the vehicle's horizontally opposed or "boxer" engine, and the word "roadster", referring to the vehicle's two-seat capacity and convertible top.
"the infernal electronic handbrake. It's completely counter-intuitive in a three-pedal machine, it will only engage with the foot-brake pressed."
Great - now to dazzle drivers behind with your brake lights whilst sat in a queue you no longer need to be a moron, you just have to drive a Porsche
Great - now to dazzle drivers behind with your brake lights whilst sat in a queue you no longer need to be a moron, you just have to drive a Porsche
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