First Drive: 2003 Porsche Boxster

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Originally posted by: Shantanu
LOL. For a second there, I thought I was looking down the tupperware aisle at a K-Mart. That is one cheap interior. :)

Jeez louise, you are the biggest, angriest troll here. I can't help but find it comical that ANYONE who is such a GM booster would be sufficiently shameless to criticize the interior of a Porsche, when its design and fit and finish are light years ahead of the one in your Grand Am (or whatever GM product you drive). Is it the lack of light-gray plastic that bothers you?
 

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Originally posted by: ElFenix
nice car... i was thrown off by this sentence though:

A Bose digital audio system is a new option, as well, finally giving the Boxster an audio system worth paying for.
do what? a bose system worth paying for? hasn't happened in decades.

For home theatre systems, I totally agree, but.....

as far as car stereos go, BOSE systems are amazing. I have heard a few of them and am very impressed. The latest one was in an Audi and it sounded incredible.
 

Doggiedog

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Originally posted by: Garet Jax
Originally posted by: ElFenix
nice car... i was thrown off by this sentence though:

A Bose digital audio system is a new option, as well, finally giving the Boxster an audio system worth paying for.
do what? a bose system worth paying for? hasn't happened in decades.

For home theatre systems, I totally agree, but.....

as far as car stereos go, BOSE systems are amazing. I have heard a few of them and am very impressed. The latest one was in an Audi and it sounded incredible.

I've got the Premium Bose speaker setup in my new MDX and it sucks! The standard stereo in my former Lexus GS300 was light years better.

I did a little bit of research on the Bose stereo in my car after I got it and some guy online got the part numbers for the speakers and did a search on them. He found out they were sub-$10 speakers. No wonder the sound is really muddy. I think I will be replacing them with something else soon.
 

geno

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Man, I know that they can't have the HP numbers clash with the 911, but cmon, 258HP for the flagship Boxster? I can't help but think it's underpowered for it's price. I know it's supposed to be a fun and tossable car, but at least keep it from being outrun by a 350Z....

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LOL. For a second there, I thought I was looking down the tupperware aisle at a K-Mart. That is one cheap interior
Yah, pictures can be deceiving, Porsches interiors are lined with some of the finest materials. Unlike the real tupperware-mobiles (*cough* GM), Porsche cares about interior quality :)
 

NFS4

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Originally posted by: Don_Vito
Originally posted by: Shantanu
LOL. For a second there, I thought I was looking down the tupperware aisle at a K-Mart. That is one cheap interior. :)

Jeez louise, you are the biggest, angriest troll here. I can't help but find it comical that ANYONE who is such a GM booster would be sufficiently shameless to criticize the interior of a Porsche, when its design and fit and finish are light years ahead of the one in your Grand Am (or whatever GM product you drive). Is it the lack of light-gray plastic that bothers you?

LOL, I bet he loves the "hose 'em down interiors" of GM cars :D I've ridden in both a '00 911 and a '02 911. The interiors are gorgeous, have quality materials, and the fit and finish is EXCELLENT. Also, the leather seats are just lucious and confortable. The Boxster has basically the same dash as '02 and later 911's and equal levels of quality and fit and finish.
 

Shantanu

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Jeez louise, you are the biggest, angriest troll here. I can't help but find it comical that ANYONE who is such a GM booster would be sufficiently shameless to criticize the interior of a Porsche, when its design and fit and finish are light years ahead of the one in your Grand Am (or whatever GM product you drive).

I don't drive a Grand Am. I do find it quite amusing though, that you would compare the interior of a $50,000 luxury Porsche roadster to a $18,000 GM econobox. Has Porsche really declined that much? I remember back in the day, they would be compared to Ferraris and such. Nowadays, their boosters compare them to Grand Ams. LOL.

Is it the lack of light-gray plastic that bothers you?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :)

Perhaps you ought to take another look at that picture. I see nothing but light-gray plastic inside that Porsche.
 
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Originally posted by: Shantanu
Jeez louise, you are the biggest, angriest troll here. I can't help but find it comical that ANYONE who is such a GM booster would be sufficiently shameless to criticize the interior of a Porsche, when its design and fit and finish are light years ahead of the one in your Grand Am (or whatever GM product you drive).

I don't drive a Grand Am. I do find it quite amusing though, that you would compare the interior of a $50,000 luxury Porsche roadster to a $18,000 GM econobox. Has Porsche really declined that much? I remember back in the day, they would be compared to Ferraris and such. Nowadays, their boosters compare them to Grand Ams. LOL.

Is it the lack of light-gray plastic that bothers you?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :)

Perhaps you ought to take another look at that picture. I see nothing but light-gray plastic inside that Porsche.


So what DO you drive?

I was not implying that the beautifully-constructed Porsche interior was comparable to a Grand Am - it is clearly nicer than even the nicest GM interior (which I guess would be found in a Seville or Corvette). Hell, in my opinion an $18K GTI has a much nicer interior than any GM product, and I sincerely doubt Bob Lutz himself would disagree.

Obviously when I made reference to gray plastic I was referring to the rubbery gray switchgear found in Pontiacs (even those with brown or tan interiors), as opposed to a gray color scheme like that in the Boxster.

But back to the real question: what do you drive?
 

NFS4

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I don't drive a Grand Am. I do find it quite amusing though, that you would compare the interior of a $50,000 luxury Porsche roadster to a $18,000 GM econobox. Has Porsche really declined that much? I remember back in the day, they would be compared to Ferraris and such. Nowadays, their boosters compare them to Grand Ams. LOL.

Aren't you the same one that compared a $18,000 Tiburon to a $40,000+ Corvette yesterday? The funny thing though is that the Tiburon uses higher quality materials for the interior :D