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Originally Posted by lkchris
Porsche is forced into this "mistake" by current emissions and consumption laws. It's smaller and turbocharged for every manufacturer in Germany.
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Yes and no.
Everything in engineering is a tradeoff. It bothers me that the automotive press seems to simply accept that turbo's were the only possible solution to the problem.
If I were in charge of engineering at Porsche, I'd have thrown out 600 lbs of what I consider to be useless weight in a Boxster. This weight reduction alone would have yielded +3 to +4 mpg - the same as the mpg improvement between the 986 and 718 models.
986 manual mpg: 17 city/24 highway
718 manual mpg: 20 city/26 highway
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