(In the U.S., interestingly, the Boxster far outsold the Carrera in the first five months of 1999-6052 Boxsters to 3953 Carreras.) So the engineers did a few calculations and came up with the 3.2-liter engine capacity.īoth the Boxster and the Carrera use different versions of one engine: Porsche's latest water-cooled flat-six. Porsche wants the S to be interesting enough to attract current Boxster owners but not so fast that it cannibalizes 911 sales. Its performance should be precisely midway between the Boxster's and the 911 Carrera's. But now the Boxster is three years old, and some real competition has shown up-the spanking-new Honda S2000 and the proliferating Audi TT. So strong was demand for the standard Boxster that Porsche deemed it pointless to launch more powerful, more expensive version of its mid-engined roadster when the assembly lines in Germany and Finland couldn't keep up with current orders. Plans to build Porsche's Boxster S model have spent the past 12 months sitting on the shelf, waiting for a call from marketing.
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