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Old 02-05-2010, 05:22 AM   #15
Quickurt
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I LOVE opinions and how they vary!!
I agree with Chris about the front end being too long.
A boxster is a mid engine car and I want it to look like all the great mid engine cars of the past, that being very short in front of the front tires, a fairly long wheelbase, because the engine as well as the passenger compartment have to be between them. Then a nice long, tapered, sloping rear end to close the air smoothly back together as the car leaves it, because that is about 75% of aerodynamic drag - how you leave the air, not how you enter it.
The confines of being a roadster and practical street car limit that somewhat, but the basic "balance" of the design needs to remain "mid-engine."
I never "saw" the Boxster design until the Cayman came out. I immediately loved the Cayman, but then mysteriously, as I continued to drool over Caymans, I suddenly "saw" the Boxster and in a short time loved Boxsters MORE than Caymans.
Call me weird, but then again, my wife does it daily.....
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