Tom, the "unique" handling you've heard about with Porsches has to do with the 911 and most of the weight being on or behind the rear axle. 911s are tail happy and driving them aggressively through corners requires a lot of experienced driver control. Lift off the gas pedal in the middle of the turn and the back end will come around. The acceleration force of the tires on the pavement is what keeps the car from spinning.
To a lesser extent, this happens in the boxster as well, so I'm going to have to partially disagree with BYprodriver.
In our cars, unskilled drivers tend to drive them fast into corners and then get scared. The fear-based thought is to lift off the throttle and mash the brake pedal, but by the time your foot moves from gas to brakes the physics are all wrong (moves weight to the front) and the back end will move upward, not downward where you want it to prevent oversteer.
Tracking the Boxster with an instructor is an amazing eye-opener. You'll be in the middle of a corner and that feeling of control loss will hit you like a ton of bricks and your instructor will say, "PUT YOUR FOOT IN THE GAS AND KEEP IT THERE!" ...
which is the polar opposite of what your mind is telling your foot to do. The idea here is that if you give the rear wheels more power, they'll grab the road and find resistance and actually compress the rear suspension and make the back end stickier than before.
All this to say, enjoy the car on public roads but save the "drive it like you stole it" for the track days and you'll be very happy you did this. I spin out once a weekend at the track (less and less, but I still do it) and have no damage to the car. However, if I spun out on public roads, I'd damage not just car(s) but myself and others too. I'm sure you're smart enough to know this last bit, but I'll add it for any village idiots reading this thread years from now
