Aggression towards Porsches?
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I'm with you on this Don. After all, you ARE the Don !
(adopts Marlon Brando Corleone voice) This man is disrespecting us. We will arrange the usual horse's head.....
I became a Godfather for the first time a few years back. My after dinner speech reflected than Don Don would be checking in on the the little ankle biter's behaviour from time to time. "Respecta youra parents, boy. Kapeeeeesh"
So UV. You have been warned! And you're forgiven of course...
To be honest, if they put a better back end on the boxster I would love one.
Maybe one a bit like the back of a 996, to match the front ;-)
*only kidding*
I just find that central tail pipe affair and lazily rounded off rear corners/clusters a little timid. And the spoiler... well, not exactly in whale tail fashion but probably twice as effective!
If it looked a tad more aggressive I think the sniping from the 911 brigade would be halved over night.
All IMHO.
Domster
Maybe one a bit like the back of a 996, to match the front ;-)
*only kidding*
I just find that central tail pipe affair and lazily rounded off rear corners/clusters a little timid. And the spoiler... well, not exactly in whale tail fashion but probably twice as effective!
If it looked a tad more aggressive I think the sniping from the 911 brigade would be halved over night.
All IMHO.
Domster
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does the spoiler not come up on a standard boxster then ?
Yep sure does. The issue is that when the spoiler has done its little electric thing it completely hides the model designation badge that is on the boot lid. So they can't tell if its a 2.5 / 2.7 or 3.2S.
The true aficiando would, of course, be able to tell by the twin exhaust pipes of the 'S'.
You'd have to be 
close to be certain though... 
This morning I witnessed the most incredible feat of engineering.
I am in the right lane about to turn right on a roundabout. A white Vauxhall Cavalier is next to me on the left. I pull on to the roundabout only to find that a car coming from my right has decided to accelerate hard onto the roundabout...probably because he saw the Porsche pull out...Damn I say...I had better not inconvenience this guy so I accelerate hard myself ensuring that I am past the danger area and am on the roundabout. After this acceleration I slow and continue round as normal.
White Cavalier next to me, although in the wrong lane, is also going right..although he had not indicated this. Probably took my acceleration as some sort of challenge and floors it...going around the outside of me. As he gets past me he, of course, meets the traffic joining the roundabout from the opposite direction and has to brake hard suddenly.
He was already at the limit of adhesion with the acceleration and hard cornering and now he lifts and brakes. Sure enough the back end flies out..BUT NOT FAR! Amazingly it comes back on line and heads for the exit...narrowly missing the traffic crossing its path.
So..either he wanted to go right..was in the wrong lane...and did something terminally STUPID about it. OR it was a road-rage "I am going past that t****r in the Porsche" thing.
Either way. Several people's lives were saved from a complete w*****r by the stunningly safe handling engineered into his vehicle by (gasp) VAUXHALL!
Idiot.
I am in the right lane about to turn right on a roundabout. A white Vauxhall Cavalier is next to me on the left. I pull on to the roundabout only to find that a car coming from my right has decided to accelerate hard onto the roundabout...probably because he saw the Porsche pull out...Damn I say...I had better not inconvenience this guy so I accelerate hard myself ensuring that I am past the danger area and am on the roundabout. After this acceleration I slow and continue round as normal.
White Cavalier next to me, although in the wrong lane, is also going right..although he had not indicated this. Probably took my acceleration as some sort of challenge and floors it...going around the outside of me. As he gets past me he, of course, meets the traffic joining the roundabout from the opposite direction and has to brake hard suddenly.
He was already at the limit of adhesion with the acceleration and hard cornering and now he lifts and brakes. Sure enough the back end flies out..BUT NOT FAR! Amazingly it comes back on line and heads for the exit...narrowly missing the traffic crossing its path.
So..either he wanted to go right..was in the wrong lane...and did something terminally STUPID about it. OR it was a road-rage "I am going past that t****r in the Porsche" thing.
Either way. Several people's lives were saved from a complete w*****r by the stunningly safe handling engineered into his vehicle by (gasp) VAUXHALL!
Idiot.
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