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Originally Posted by dghii
Coming from a 914, anything might feel ok!
My first test drive in a Boxster was a really nice, low mile '99 back in 2004. My previous cars had been a Miata, a '99 Z3. I loved the Boxster except the shifting felt so sloppy and vague I thought that there was something wrong. It stuck with me and I later found, through reading and driving other Boxsters, that my experience was the norm.
When I finally bought my car in 2008, I enjoyed everything about the car and got use to the shifter. A few years ago, my boys bought me a short shifter for Christmas . After install, I was amazed at the difference and how much 'newer' my car felt.
Heck of an upgrade!
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It's all relative, heck it also has 2 more cylinders with almost twice as much power, AC and automatic top, so what really to complain???
Other manual cars that I owned are 73 Beatle (with Scat short shifter), 74 Volvo (with a weird overdrive switch on the shifter), 80's VW Fox and 91 Saab, nothing fancy... By far my 914 with tail shifter tranny is the worst of all that trained me well to live with any shifters and lowered my standard... but it made me feel skillful operating that funky mechanical device!
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1997 Boxster arctic silver/ red, XNE riveted mahogany/ leather steering wheel & 917-style wood shift knob, Ben’s short shifter, PSE, 996 TB, UDP, stereo/ center console delete, hardtop and speedster humps, daily driver rain or shine or snow!
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