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Old 02-04-2010, 05:19 PM   #1
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I think the design of his front bumper is very well executed. In fact, I greatly considered it for my vehicle. Unfortunately, the time constraints of my project required me to get it in a hurry, and the price for expediting the shipping was cost prohibitive.
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Old 02-04-2010, 09:03 PM   #2
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I think the design of his front bumper is very well executed. In fact, I greatly considered it for my vehicle. Unfortunately, the time constraints of my project required me to get it in a hurry, and the price for expediting the shipping was cost prohibitive.
I agree with JD I think the front bumper has a very good style to it that compliments the lines of the Boxster well
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Old 02-05-2010, 05:22 AM   #3
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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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Old 02-05-2010, 06:55 AM   #4
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Certain that it is, a delicate balance between "form and function" is required to improve upon the aesthetic beauty of the boxster . Although some have expressed their opinion regarding front bumpers that create an elongated look on this vehicle, in my opinion there is nothing worse than some of the "turbo" look front bumpers out there that turn the front end of the boxster into a "snout".
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Old 02-05-2010, 08:53 AM   #5
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Bingo, Johnny.
I keep looking at the front cap on mine and seeing how to simplify if by removing the foglight assembly, rad opening grilles and that cheap crap looking trim around the center opening. Just blacking out the crossbars in the rad opening grilles made a huge improvement.
I need to post a new pic with the orange tumors gone from the front fender.
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