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Claiming it is a superior car to the competition is rather funny: the
key to the Boxster is shape and desing, it's assembled out of obsolete
Porsche parts, reason number 1 why Porsche makes such interesting
profits out of it. Reason also why Porsche does not race it.

Someone I know got within .25 of a second of a 2001 Boxster S in his
1998 MX-5 at a Sprint I was at a few weekends ago.

This means that Boxsters cost a lot more than MX-5s but are only a
little bit faster. (c:



Nope: it means that on that particular track, on that day and with those
drivers that specific MX-5 was only a tiny bit slower than that specific
Boxster for reasons which we may or may not know at this point in time.

I quess you see I spent some time today with a lawyer ;-)

Sorry for the MX-5-affectionados: the Boxster (S) is a bit higher up,
performance-and pricewise.

But then again: if you put a race prepared MX5 against a streetdriven
Boxster, things could even up quite nicely. And if one put a compressor
fitted MX5 or a V8 powered one next to a Boxster, the German girlie
would be sucked into the induction and blown out through the exhaust.

But chanches of this happening are about the same as the margin during
that Sprint . :-)

Tom De Moot