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Porsche’s brutish new Boxster packs a whole lot of punch
Porsche’s best roadster just got better, faster and angrier, writes Michael Taylor
There are few cars more compelling to people who love to drive than a Porsche Boxster. Sure, the great unwashed can deride them as soft Porsches, until you persuade them to join you for a mountain blast. As ever, Porsche walked a fine line with the 718 Boxster and Boxster S, ensuring the badge’s traditional balance between power and poise remained unmolested and exquisite. And now here it is with the standard car’s niggling criticism taken care of. The 718 Boxster GTS delivers more power and an angrier exhaust note and, to keep the game fair, its suspension has been lowered 10mm to add grip, too, mostly to cover off Porsche’s Active Suspension Management system. The same stuff has happened inside its hardtop twin, the 718 Cayman GTS, too, with both arriving in SA in April 2018. Porsche has added a bigger compressor wheel to the variable-geometry turbocharger, rammed the maximum boost pressure up to 1.3 bar (up from 1.1) and cleaned up the intake manifold, punching an extra 11kW out ...
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