2012 Boxster Photos

[Overdrive]

I find the spoiler making a sort of beltline with the small bars going across the taillights to be a strange touch, almost like trying to make the car seem very upscale (not necessary IMO, it's already a Porsche, and has only been improving in quality since the days of vinyl rear windows). It would just be bizarre if the spoiler were the entire thing from one light to another, so I'm glad they didn't do that, at least.

A friend of mine took a look at these photos and feels that this car might actually be smaller than my 986. I feel just the opposite, while I know he may be right, but the car just appears to be massive with the driver looking so small in the images. It seems like the car's gaining mass, which I hope is not the case. I will say, though, the first thing that popped out of his mouth was "looks like an MR2".

Everything from the nose up to the end of the doors definitely comes off very Carerra GT, which I don't think is a bad thing to go back to some successful (or at the very least, memorable) roots. The intakes look very out of place to me, just something about the shape of them. You can tell they want everything to look like it flows together, but for me that's one spot where it doesn't happen, and then there's the spoiler/beltline mentioned earlier at the rear. The rest of the car forward is very safe-looking typical Porsche styling. I'd be interested to see how the car looks top up.

As for the video I saw posted earlier, if that Boxster was any sort of camoflauged up, that could explain the difference in appearance, but either way, I'm not entirely thrilled about the styling direction....guess we'll have to wait for official pictures to see what's really on the table.

[blue2000s]

Originally Posted by Overdrive

A friend of mine took a look at these photos and feels that this car might actually be smaller than my 986. I feel just the opposite, while I know he may be right, but the car just appears to be massive with the driver looking so small in the images. It seems like the car's gaining mass, which I hope is not the case. I will say, though, the first thing that popped out of his mouth was "looks like an MR2".

All reports are that the new car grows a couple inches in length but loosing weight thanks to aluminum body panels. It still will be heavier than the 986 though, I would bet.

To the eye, the car looks smaller in proportion to the wheels, but the wheels are huge. There was a bus ad in Denver where they painted a Ford Mustang onto the side of the bus, using the buses wheels for the Mustang. It looked great until you realized that the Mustang was HUGE!