2012 Boxster

[chris97boxster]

Originally Posted by Deserion

A Boxster without a boxer motor is not really a Boxster, now is it.

+1
like I said earlier. ..I didn't know what to say to a
turbo 4 cyl (if its an audi/vw)
But that statement sums it up

Would a Corvette b a vette with a V6 in it?

Would a 911 be a 911 with a V8?

Maybe they VW / porsche need a reminder on what makes a boxster
my 2 cents
Chris

[Overdrive]

That's definitely my concern...the whole point of the name of the car was combining two aspects of it, the boxer engine and it being a roadster...not trying to insult anyone's intelligence here, as I'm sure 90% of the members on here know this, but it just points to there being an obvious misnomer situation there if they continue to call the car a Boxster and the engine isn't flat, be it a flat 4, 6, whatever. That'd really be my only gripe if they were to make that error. If it's still a high power 4 cylinder, I can't really complain all that much, it's just the nature of the beast with car development these days.

As for the whole issue of the Lotus (a marque of which I am a fan, so don't try to paint me as biased) vs. the Boxster, as someone mentioned earlier, we're talking about two entirely different machines from two different eras with very different technological developments to them, as well as two very different weights. To expect a trackable street car over a decade old that used to put out 200 horses to the CRANK on a good day with the wind behind it to outperform or even keep up with a featherlight, barely streetable track car is not realistic. You might as well try to compare a Bugatti Veyron to a Tuk-Tuk. I really don't see why someone's trying so hard to point out how lame this car is. A Crown Victoria's pretty lame when you try to compare it to an F1 car, too, but which one can you drive to the track, on the track, and back home again? One could do this all day with any and every car you could think of, but why bother? People know the issues with the car and that Porsche messed up in a lot of ways...it's not stopping people from buying them and enjoying them on and off the track.
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[jacabean]

there is no need for hostilities gentlemen . We would not be up here if we did not like our Boxsters .
Back to the smaller boxster type car we have been hearing about. I don't think it is even going to be called a boxster. From what i have read the Boxster is just going to keep heading up market and this car will slot in under it to fill where the box. used to be priced.

[jbs986]

The smaller Boxster you are referring to jacabean is the baby Boxster or( the New 356 as it is called internally at Porsche) it will share the same mid-engine platformW/ the new VW Bluesport and the new Audi R4 rumor is that Porsche is developing a horizontally opposed 4-cylinder Turbo 2.0L engine producing 250-300hp. for the car.

The new 356 will be smaller and lighter then the 987 cost less, around $ 40,000 it is ment to undercut the base Boxster/Caman and will be on sale sometime in 2012 and it will still be called a Boxster.

[CenterIsl]

Originally Posted by jbs986

The new 356...will still be called a Boxster.

Sounds like a mistake to me, just as if they'd called the original Boxster a 911 - which would have further insulted the 911 crowd. Insulting the Boxster crowd - now that would really be pissing in their own soup.

[jbs986]

Originally Posted by CenterIsl

Sounds like a mistake to me, just as if they'd called the original Boxster a 911 - which would have further insulted the 911 crowd. Insulting the Boxster crowd - now that would really be pissing in their own soup.

The smaller Boxster will still have a Boxster engine it will just be a 4-cyl. turbo instead of a 6-cyl. engine.

[Overdrive]

Originally Posted by jbs986

The smaller Boxster will still have a Boxster engine it will just be a 4-cyl. turbo instead of a 6-cyl. engine.

Like I've been saying, as long as there's an actual boxer engine in the Boxster, even if it's a flat 4, I'm ok with that...cause it continues to make sense.