Yawn, why do people care so much about it not being masculine, it's a 315bhp mid engined porsche not a pink corsa! Pretty sad that so many people are scared about what other people will think about their manhood, despite the fact most negative comments are going to be from people who are jealous and own far from 'manly' cars themselves.

this i like

gawd i am a giant contradiction ..

Because it doesn't rely on an engine-driven pump.

Saw one the other day in a supermarket car park. The closer I got, the more special it felt, until I was right up next to that exquisite hood. That's when I realized it looked pretty much perfect. Had to do the 'turn to look at it one last time' as I walked away. Sigh.

Really hope Porsche make another Boxster Spyder.

Who is this Chris Harris character? Why do his video reviews have to be pre cursed with his name? Is it some sort of ego thing...?

branding

expect a raft of marketing products to be launched soon

I can't diasagree with any of that. My previous statements regarding the image of the Boxster were relative to Chris's slant in his video.

Since I am apparently the PH stereotype made flesh (being a company director, possessing a goatee and being powerfully-built - well, heavy, anyway) I don't find my masculinity threatened by the car I drive, so I'd buy a Boxster if everything Monkey said was true. But it ain't. This car is not £40k. It's £46k with no options, and with any sensible set of kit it's knocking on £60k - the one I specced just now for fun was £59k and I didn't go mad at all. That's just stupid when you can buy a sub 10k-mile 2-year-old high-spec 997 C2S cab for near enough the same money. Here's one in very similar spec to the Boxster I put together for £65k from Bramley, for Pete's sake, so people not in their private fantasy land of pricing (and I know whereof I speak, I have bought from them, and nice people they are too) will be asking sub £60k for similar cars.

Don't get me wrong, it looks like a lovely motor, but it needs to come in at £50k with a reasonable selection of kit to make sense. That would set it squarely against the SLK 350, the Audi S5 cab etc in similar levels of spec. I've just matched an SLK as best I can to the Boxster and it came out at £50,650. Of course you can argue that a poverty-spec car would be fine, but why should you do without nav, PASM, heated seats, bluetooth, leather and a decent stereo when you can have all of these in similar cars for the same money. I'm sure the Boxster's a better drive than the S5 (they're not really in the same segment, after all, and most sports cars would be - I know, I have an S5 cab...), and I suspect it's materially better than the SLK. But is it £10k better? Is it better than a 1-year-old GTR; a 2-year old 911 C2S...?

Because as with everyone else totally pissed off with the total rubbish spilled by the BBC, the only other car reviewer that I like watching is Jay Leno.

We are Petrolheads, so we want to know the technical details. Not how fast it can drive on a runway against an F16.

Chris's videos are excellent - and just about the only car reviews worth watching out of the UK right now.

So if you don't mind, keep pre-pending Chris Harris on the videos, then I'll bother to watch them.

New boxster looking good. Can't wait to see and drive one. But I like the rarity of my spyder and the looks. Dunno if they will re do the spyder, but it would be a good 4-5 years away.

Good video... much more like it. Simple informative driving of a car. No silly phone calls, long winded joke build up or a 'wk' mountain in sight!