who can afford the gas to be street racing??
i'm relatively young (25) so other cars seem to expect the "redlight showdown" when they're next to me...
truth is, there's a lot of cars out there now that can spank the boxster (subies, turbo'ed 4bangers, hell even some of these 29Liter trucks (exaggeration for effect) can beat my car.. if beating someone in a straight line is your goal, the box will always leave you disappointed I think..
to be more on-topic, what if you WERE to stay neck and neck with the highlander? then what? one of you is gonna cause an accident where the the merge actually takes place because you'll both be too stubborn to back off and let the other pass. and if you were in front of me when this happened, boxster owner or not, i'd be pissed
(of course i'd side with the box driver first, let's not get crazy here)
to quote the greatest movie of all time: "there's a lot of bad drivers out there" (come on, name the movie!). Don't be one of them!