New Boxster

[Andy Ha]

Am just about to order new Boxster for my wife, but I have just come across a rumour that there is a new model coming out in late 08. Can any one shed anylight on this.

[Don]

There are new models of Boxster that come out every single year. Usually after the August factory shutdown during which they re-tool. Productions start again in September IIRC.

Usually you get very minor differences. Sometimes you get a "facelift" - usually about halfway towards a complete "new model". My car, for example, is a "facelift" 986 S Boxster. MY03. My cousins MY04 Boxster looks identical but, in fact, has service intervals twice the length! I had previously owned a MY01 car - the first to have PSM.

If history repeats itself we can expect the next Boxster to look identical (i.e. still to be a 987) but to have a "facelift". The 987S has already had one power tweak (courtesy of cutting costs by eliminating the 280bhp engine and only having the 295bhp engine of the Cayman to produce). Perhaps we will see more?

[Geneve]

It'll be a 'facelift' - ie cosmetic changes and some mechanical upgrades (DI, PDK,?), possibly for 2009MY or after.

A new model (988?) would be further away

[Spice_Weasel]

Last week's Autocar mentioned that the 911, Boxster and Cayman engines will get more power next year (not sure if that is at some point in 2008 or for the 2009 model year) thanks to direct injection.

[Andy Ha]

Thanks for that. Thats the answer I was looking for her current model is 986 and needed to know if we could expect something as drastic as a 988.