2005 Porsche 911 (997) !!!!!! :D
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We paid for your 997 911!
Though I'm not a part of that 'we' since I bought mine used from a Bentley dealer in Illinois. Though I paid MSRP for a Cayenne Turbo with 6000 miles on it - so I'm doing my part to keep resale alive! Not that resale's probably much of a factor of prospective Cayenne Turbo buyers - more like, "Range Rover is easier to say, but Jeeves prefers this - let's buy both."
- 4,805
WHo is "we" your family or something?
- 4,805
OH.
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What! Are you crazy???
If they go back to fr coupes they better be cheaper than a freaking boxster... What should be done to fill the boxster space is create a smaller, lighter, and stiffer MR machine with more power available to buyers... Use the freakin 911 eninges in it for god sake... Shouldnt be a difficult redesign...
So in summary...
prettier (those lights have to go and its ungodly/ugly shape has to be redesigned making the car smaller should help a lot)
faster
lighter
more powerful
RAR
If they go back to fr coupes they better be cheaper than a freaking boxster... What should be done to fill the boxster space is create a smaller, lighter, and stiffer MR machine with more power available to buyers... Use the freakin 911 eninges in it for god sake... Shouldnt be a difficult redesign...
So in summary...
prettier (those lights have to go and its ungodly/ugly shape has to be redesigned making the car smaller should help a lot)
faster
lighter
more powerful
RAR
///M-Spec
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Last I read Porsche is well on its way back to a three car lineup (plus that truck, whose name will not be uttered here).
-997 and variants
-New Boxster, in coupe and roadster format
-New "928", large 2+2 GT with the V8 from the truck
While it would be nice to see Porsche add more content into the Boxster (like, oooh say 50 extra horsepower), I don't feel it is excessively heavy. The 986 body compares well with the Z4 and is much lighter than the SLK and TT. A 45-55k, a buyer will expect a certain amount of luxury, and stripping the Boxster out isn't going to help things.
Now, a Boxster Club Sport or RS, say packing 300ish horses and weighing in at 2700-2800 lbs for 50-55 grand US would be very, very nice. Pity it will never happen at that price point.
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-997 and variants
-New Boxster, in coupe and roadster format
-New "928", large 2+2 GT with the V8 from the truck
While it would be nice to see Porsche add more content into the Boxster (like, oooh say 50 extra horsepower), I don't feel it is excessively heavy. The 986 body compares well with the Z4 and is much lighter than the SLK and TT. A 45-55k, a buyer will expect a certain amount of luxury, and stripping the Boxster out isn't going to help things.
Now, a Boxster Club Sport or RS, say packing 300ish horses and weighing in at 2700-2800 lbs for 50-55 grand US would be very, very nice. Pity it will never happen at that price point.
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- 4,805
Naw I would actually perfer either MR or RR.
///M-Spec
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Oh yea, pardon me. I forget I need to be excited everytime a company needs to make money. I love it when something is marked up and overpriced. I'm so thrilled about a Porsche Exclusive $3,000 interior trim kit, a $250 shift knob and $100 for a painted wheel logo cap, I think I'll go crap myself with glee, you nitwit.
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If thats crap... I would love to buy that crap!!
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Ummm..this is kinda on and off topic at the same time, did anyone watch the moncao F1 race, they advertised Porsche and they showed the logo and I noticed something, the horse on the logo has seemed it has changed, I thought the horse was on its hinde legs almost vertical?Well they showed the logo and the horse was on all 4's, is it just me or did porsche actually changed the stance of the horse?
- 4,805
Saw the race but no clue what your talking about. ( Shumaker crashed in yellow flag!)
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Ok, lol, I was talking about the Porsche emblem, didn't the old emblem have the horse up on two legs? Well while they showed the race they advertised Porsche and the horse on the emblem was in a different posititon it was on all fours, did anyone else notice this?
