A move to the dark side…..
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2023 7:14 pm
…… well more the bright side with a speed yellow Boxster S 987 gen 2.
Always fancied a Porsche and after looking at a couple of 996 C4S 911’s decided that a Boxster was more realistic and fingers crossed, less of a money pit. Did consider a Cayman as they look great but much prefer the roof down when hooning so Boxster it was. Also didn’t want the worry about potential IMS/bore scoring, regardless of how over hyped the risk of these failures occurring are, so focused on finding a gen 2 987.
My local Porsche Indie had 3 987.2 Boxster S cars in stock including a superb looking Black Edition but sadly low spec. He also had a speed yellow Boxster in stock which is one of my favourite Porsche colours. Comes with FSH, low mileage, PASM, Bose, electric heated memory seats, climate control, cruise, 19 inch turbo alloys but no PSE or extended leather. Fortunately a previous owner drove the car to Gert in Belgium and had a carnewal GT exhaust installed whilst he waited.
Had the car for 10 days now and just returned from a 230 mile round trip to Betws-y-Coed and the car performed faultlessly. You sit really low down in the car and the handling and grip is impressive with virtually no body roll. Handling and performance is well beyond my shite driving skill levels! My remapped E89 20i auto produced 456Nm of torque and conducted overtaking manoeuvres quickly and effortlessly from low revs whereas the manual Boxster needs to be revved but once above 4000rpm really shifts. The carnewal exhaust really comes awake when the revs hit 4000rpm and sounds awesome taking the whole hooning experience to another level.
So far no regrets with my latest purchase.
Always fancied a Porsche and after looking at a couple of 996 C4S 911’s decided that a Boxster was more realistic and fingers crossed, less of a money pit. Did consider a Cayman as they look great but much prefer the roof down when hooning so Boxster it was. Also didn’t want the worry about potential IMS/bore scoring, regardless of how over hyped the risk of these failures occurring are, so focused on finding a gen 2 987.
My local Porsche Indie had 3 987.2 Boxster S cars in stock including a superb looking Black Edition but sadly low spec. He also had a speed yellow Boxster in stock which is one of my favourite Porsche colours. Comes with FSH, low mileage, PASM, Bose, electric heated memory seats, climate control, cruise, 19 inch turbo alloys but no PSE or extended leather. Fortunately a previous owner drove the car to Gert in Belgium and had a carnewal GT exhaust installed whilst he waited.
Had the car for 10 days now and just returned from a 230 mile round trip to Betws-y-Coed and the car performed faultlessly. You sit really low down in the car and the handling and grip is impressive with virtually no body roll. Handling and performance is well beyond my shite driving skill levels! My remapped E89 20i auto produced 456Nm of torque and conducted overtaking manoeuvres quickly and effortlessly from low revs whereas the manual Boxster needs to be revved but once above 4000rpm really shifts. The carnewal exhaust really comes awake when the revs hit 4000rpm and sounds awesome taking the whole hooning experience to another level.
So far no regrets with my latest purchase.