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Old 01-22-2011, 03:50 PM   #6
eightsandaces
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Originally Posted by yelojkt
Good point. I drive a car with a slightly modified 1.8T and it makes the base boxsters that I have driven feel feel slow. I have yet to drive an S model. But I would say it would be comparable in speed to my car. I love this motor (1.8T) but I do not want one in a boxster. I want a flat six. Lower center of gravity and the sound. A boxster without the growl of the flat six behind you just would not be a proper boxster.

The boxster feeling slow is sometimes due to how well Porsche cars go fast. Conversely, my old Fiat sounds and feels like it's quick but it's not, at least relative to anything new.
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