BigLou

I've been curious to see what some of you with the new base boxster,manual trans, (240hp) are getting for 0-60 times. Porsche lists 5.9 seconds on the website. I know some of their performance numbers are usually conservative, but I would gues that this seems pretty close to what it might actually be, or is it? I know that their are a number of variables that will make the figures vary, but I am just curious if anyone has timed their new boxster and what you have come up with. Please state how you got the figure, ie: SportsChrono, G-tech, etc.

Thanks,
Lou

Chris C.

Porsche lists the S at 5.2, and at least one magazine shows it at 5.0 You'd likely be safe knocking 2/10ths off the Porsche number

TedKM3

I think it's a little faster than 5.9, but that's butt dyno talking. My wife's 330i ZHP (performance pkg.) is also listed by BMW as 5.9 and it doesn't quite feel as fast. My E36 M3 ranges from 5.4-5.8 depending on who you ask and the 0-60 pull is just a tad more urgent than the base 987. Highway it's no comparison, the M3 has way more pull.

The_Phantom

Yeah, I don't know about Boxsters, but Chris C. is right, Porsche does give very conservative 0-60 times. I know that for a 996 C4S like my car, Porsche's official 0-60 was 5.1 seconds, but I have seen three different magazines list the 0-60 at 4.6, 4.7 and 4.6.

jumper5836

The actually offical time is 5.1 seconds from 0-62 mph so save a .2 of for 0-60 mph which put it more in line with the 0-60 times from magazines.

fast1

It's always easy to beat the magazine times because of their constraints. In order to achieve consistency the magazines run their tested cars with a full tank of gas and don't power shift. They also carry around 40 lbs of test gear in their cars. So if you race your car with a light fuel load and power shift, you can easily knock off a couple of 1/10s.