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Originally Posted by Perfectlap
None of the Boxsters 2.5, 2.7, 3.2 will win any drag races but that's only a bother to someone who doesn't intend to test the handling limits of their Boxster.
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With all due respect, you don't make any sense. What would going fast in a straight line have
anything to do with handling? Taking a corner on a track is a steady-state affair. A 100 hp car taking a corner at 100 mph is the same as a 400 hp car taking the corner at 100 mph.
There's 3 things that make the quintessential sports car:
1. Handle great. Allows you to take the corner at a higher rate.
2. Brake great. Allows you to scrub speed
quicker between straights.
3. Have gobs of power. Allows you to get out of corners, down the straight and into the next braking zone
quicker.
The elite sports cars do all 3 of the above. Then the 2nd tier cars do 2 out of 3. Then the 3rd tier cars do 1 out of 3.
You seem to be relating a car's power with autocrossing where you rarely get out of second gear. Try running that Civic on a race track with some elevation changes and long straights and there'll be more than a 1 second diff between lap times of that Civic and a Boxster or Corvette or whatever.
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