Porsche Boxster Service and Repair Redwood City - The mid engined Porsche Boxster 1997 to 2005 - Bosch European Redwood City

 

 The Porsche Boxster has an incomparable balance and natural agility. The flat six motor, with its weight low down is mounted in the middle of the car for perfect balance.

There is no 'bad' year to buy. 1997- 2004. The earliest cars would be from late 1996 (1997 model year) and these will be 2.5. From late 1999 (2000 model) the Porsche Boxster 2.7 replaced the 2.5 giving a little more horsepower and noticeably more torque in the midrange. If on a budget for a tiptronic Porsche Boxster it’s worth looking at the 2.7.

Also for the 2000 model year a large engined Porsche Boxster 3.2 S was introduced. These are super sports cars with a 6 speed manual gearbox or tiptronic. They have bigger brakes, stiffer suspension and 250 hp.

These models are known as the 986 series and ran until the launch of the newer shape 987 Porsche Boxster, introduced in late 2004. The only significant change to the 986 series was in 2003 when Porsche replaced the plastic window of the soft top with a heated glass window. This is known as a facelift although it was mild and only changes in the plastic bumpers and molding distinguish these. 

I have used all the models, used them for everything; shopping, for track days, commuting, back road fun and trans European dash's, and they have never failed to impress.

A Porsche Boxster is a proper sports car. Its a fun drive, highly capable, very practical and ever inch a Porsche.

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For the 2005 model year Porsche re launched the Boxster, almost every detail of changed. Known as the 987 series. Learn more about the 987.

If you can afford a decent used Porsche Boxster then don't wait, don't miss out, these are great cars to own and nowadays can be purchased for little more than a miserable hatchback. Do it.

 

We live in a world where exciting new developments are being announced all the time, though the reality often turns out to be a relatively modest step forward.

All the more reason to believe that a very special group of people will be particularly pleased to hear that Porsche, one of the most exclusive carmakers in the world, has produced a new model.

It’s an open two-seater with a 6-cylinder, horizontally-opposed engine (boxer) mounted between the front and rear axles. It has 2 luggage compartments. It’s called the Boxster (Boxster and Roadster).

There are mass-produced roadsters, and there’s the Boxster. That really says it all.

The Boxster didn’t come off the shelf. Some companies might take a limousine engine and maybe an existing under body or axle assembly and simply come up with a novel way of putting them together. The Boxster, on the other hand, was developed from scratch as a completely new car. Its design is not based on a search for synergy, nor is it a computer product. It was born in the imagination and passion of a small group of people.

It’s all new, from the first design sketch to the last bolt. That’s why it arouses something which is increasingly rare in our digitised and rationalised world: emotion.

 

source: http://www.performance2and4.co.uk/box986_0_.html

by Adrian Crawford