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Originally Posted by Brucelee
The Box has tons of sales life left IMHO IF Porsche wants to invest a bit of technology, packaging and marketing into it.
Given their past treatment of the 928 and 968, I would not bet money on that.
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I think the Boxster has "steady" sales potential. There is a significant market for a quality, (moderately) high performance roadster in the 40 to 60 thousand dollar range.
Other mfrs. have taken a shot at the Box but none of them have thusfar been able to provide the package that Porsche has. A part of that package is, arguably, the little crest on the nose, but the bottom line is still that the Box is a damn good sports roadster. Porsche would be foolish to drop the Boxster and reignite the whining for an entry-level Porsche sports car.
It took them almost thirty years and two tries to finally hit it out of the park with the Box, so I think they'll hang on to it for a while.
Now if they can just do a little something to placate the natives about engine reliability, we'd all have a merry Christmas.