Jim in St.Louis

I tried to place a deposit for a Club Sport and the dealer contacted the regional rep who said that there are no known plans to import it. Does anyone have any information to confirm or deny that statement?
Jim

ScottS

Porsche typically remains mum baout things until they annouce it all over. I put a deposit down on the Clubsport last month. The GM said that Porsche has not annouced anything yet but was going to make a boxster product that would "put the passion back in Porsche."

If they don't import it to the US I will probably import it as a nonstreet legal track car. If not, I'll appply my deposit to a 997C4s or the like.

Paul Marangoni

How much of a deposit did you need to put down? Is the deposit fully refundable? I'm thinking of doing the same.

Mongo

Club Sport Boxster huh? Anyone had the option code designation for this car? Is it M637 like all the other previous CS optioned cars???? WHat's included in the Clubsport optioned Boxster?

Jim in St.Louis

There are two Porsche dealers in town and one wants $500 and the other $1,000. But both say that it is totally refundable. I put a deposit on a Boxster in July of 1993 and got the car April of 1997, without any problems.
I don't know of any code for it other than just calling it a Club Sport Boxster Coupe.
Jim

Jim in St.Louis

I don't remember what the features were other than a special suspension, engine and no A/C.
I think that I read it in Autoweek.
Jim

Mongo

no exterior differences like a logo (IE 968 and 944 clubsports?)

Moogle

the designation probbaly C7S / C7 or something, who knows.

Doug&Julie

http://www2.us.porsche.com/usa/

Check out the new link for the "Cayman S". I hope by the "S" designation there will eventually be a "base" model. I don't think I'll ever be able to afford the "S" if they place it between the Boxster S and 911....

Mongo

honestly I think Porsche coulda come up with a better name then Cayman


EDIT: on second thought the site of Cayman reptiles on their website is REALLY KEWL!

Doug&Julie

I agree...on both counts! OK, maybe I'm a Porsche sucker, but I'm startin' to dig it...

Moogle

i wonder if S implies there will be a lower BASE model, or a turbo version?

would be sort of silly just to release an S version without any other reference points

Mongo

Interesting how the displacement is the same as the old 996 as well as the horsepower (well 5 HP less than the 1999 996).

I'm starting to get excited here

500

A sign of genius marketing is something that at first is so unfashionable that nobody likes it, but then evolves into something tres cool...

Time will tell if "Cayman" does this. But I must say... it actually is growing on me... Two weeks ago I hated it with a passion. Now I can sorta say it's OK.

Sean

Porsche released the Cayenne in its S and Turbo variants first. Only later, after all the magazines raved about performance, did they roll out the Volkswagen V6 base model.

Probably the same thinking at work here... Launch the Cayman in its S variant first to establish the brand, then follow with the lower-performing base model later.