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Originally Posted by fivepointnine
you basically just described a Lotus Elise........
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Indeed, or the 1st gen Esprit.
Neither of which is easily had stateside anymore unless you get a used Elise. But if I were to buy an Elise, I'd be doing so with the intention of having a fairly streetable track car, as opposed to a trackable streetcar in the Boxster. Either way, if I'm going to buy a car like that, it's with that intent of having a straight up sports car, and not because I want them to add leather, a subwoofer, and a cupholder every six inches of interior space.
Porsche kind of stopped making cars resembling that sports car image a while ago, I'm realizing, but the introduction of the 986 really seems to be the end of that period. Anything after that has started to lose the whole pure sports car thing and catered to people looking for a status symbol to flaunt at the workplace and garage otherwise, unless it's a 911/Carrera with a "GT", and possibly a number following, in its name.
And even then, who really drives the piss out of their Carerra GT besides that guy with the Gemballa one that cracked it up?