Spidey944

I know there have been threads in the past about why we love these cars, but maybe you have new stories you want to add. After a recent drive today, I am finding myself even happier with my choice of a "Fun" car.

We had a 2002 Boxster S Convertible in the shop for a few days now tracking down a check engine light issue. After making a repair to the air/oil separator, the vehicle needed to be drivin a few times for drive cycle reasons to ensure the light was not going to come on the moment the customer left the shop.

So of course, being the shop manager, I opted to take it to lunch today!

I came back slightly uninspired I must say. I can see why they call these a girls Porsche. The car feels fast if you are starting in 1st and moving through the gears. It only starts to open up when the rpm's are over 5k. I guess I was just expecting more from an S model. Cruising around even in 3rd gear and punching it, it just didn't feel the same. The whole time driving all I could think about was how much this car needed a turbo!!

Aside from the feel of the engine, the seats were bolstered poorly, and the interior felt like I was in a bigger version of a Miata. I love my P car, and would love to own a whole fleet. But you can count the Boxster off my list. I love my 951, and would love to own it until the day we have no more gasoline for me to enjoy it properly. Then maybe I can just look at it while parked in my garage dreaming of the booooooooost.

lart951

They don't call it girls car, we call it Gayxster.

Reimu

I thought it was "coxster"?

lart951

or jokexster

George D

One of my friends saw a guy in a boxter with a scarf around his neck and stated, "That guy must have a mangina!" Cracks me up!

So

lart951

perhaps, it was a fagxster

RKD in OKC

Hey, I liked my BoxsterS and set a LOT of FTD's with it. What you are describing is all about the torque curve. With a turbo you get more torque as the rpm increases making the car feel faster than it is due to the increasing acceleration rate as rpms increase. An NA car has a flatter torque curve so the acceleration rate starts out higher but does not increase nearly as much as rpms increase. An interesting note: the 0-60 is the same for a stock Boxster S as a stock 944TS or a stock 928GT. The 928 with the most low end torque feels the slowest. In fact, by comparison the 928 feels like the car gets slower as rpm increases.

At this last Sunday's autocross my 2.8L 944 Turbo running 16psi on Toyo Proxies got spanked, 3.5 seconds, by a Cayman S with aftermarket swaybars, and Hoosiers. I placed 3rd .4 seconds behind a 375hp 4x4 Evo with shortened 1st thru 4th also on Toyo Proxies. I did better the two GT3s by just over a second. It was 40°F out and everyone had trouble hooking up.

lart951

OMG, you are kidding me right? the 928 feels like the car gets slower as rpm increases.

2bridges

Drove a boxterS myself to make my own decision a long time back. What a poor excuse for a performance car. I expected much, much more. After that I can't help but kinda sneer at the Boxters ...... sorry little under performers from top to bottom.

road noisy, soft suspension, lazy through the rpm... just all around a nice car for the wife to drive

RPHARRIS

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/3...6faa57634c.htm <--sort of like that?

lart951

So the boxster is yours or is it your husband car?

ninefiveone

NASCAR called... they want you guys to come on back and stop messin around with them weird foreign cars that "handle"

Spidey944

OMG Lart, that's the funniest thing I have heard in weeks.

RKD in OKC

I've owned 5 Porsches.







I don't need or use my cars to define my manhood or prove my ability to produce testosterone.
I have however noticed the 944 Turbos seem to attract the attention from boys under the age of 25 where the other Porsches I've owned attracted women. Before you go accusing those that own Boxsters of being girly men, you might consider what your owning a car that attracts boys under the age of 25 makes you.

Josh B

Nice collection - I'll bet that 914 was fun to drive