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Old 11-01-2016, 03:54 PM   #15
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This may sound funny but I have almost no memory of the 1997 Boxster launch in NA.

The BMW Z3 seemed to have made the bigger splash after appearing in the James Bond movie. Ditto for the Audi TT a year or so later. Everyone was talking about the design of that car by 1999. Porsche was just not keeping up in that part of the 90s. And what hubbub there was about Porsche was about how the Boxster was a let down from the 1993 concept car and how FUGLY and muted people thought the 996 was. It wasn't until the sales numbers started making a dent that people started saying anything positive about Porsche after years of negative. Many forget that Porsche sold barely a thousand 993 Carreras in all of North America in a single year before the water cooled twins came on the scene.
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