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Engines, performance and drive - currently reading The switch to four-cylinder engines has robbed the Boxster of some character, but it's faster and sharper to drive than ever. Practicality, comfort and boot space For a two-seater roadster, the Boxster is remarkably spacious and practical.
Reliability and Safety There shouldn't be many worries with the Boxster thanks to Porsche's fine reputation for solidity. Share this on Twitter Share this on Facebook Email. The controls are pleasingly weighty, too, which helps you to feel more involved in the driving experience. If you're tempted to sharpen the Boxster's reflexes further, you can specify a Sport pack on the S, which lowers and stiffens the suspension.
We prefer the less extreme Sport setting, which is far more comfortable on Britain's broken road surfaces and does little to blunt the Boxster's handling responses. The Boxster T comes with the PASM sport chassis, Sport Chrono package, torque vectoring differential, sports exhaust and active drivetrain mounts, all of which give it extra poise and dynamic appeal.
If you're satisfied with the bhp from the standard engine and don't feel the need to move up to the bhp of the GTS model, then the T delivers essentially all the handling improvements for less money.
The entry-level model gets the 2. Just how fast your Boxster is depends partly on which gearbox you choose.
Cars with the six-speed manual take 5. The quickest time of 4. It produces bhp again, spread across a much wider range of revs than before and can get the car from mph in just 4. Its top speed of mph is slightly higher than the mph managed by the standard Boxster. The GTS previously used the same 2. In the biggest news story so far for this generation of Boxster, Porsche replaced this with a 4.
It's instantly the star of the show too, with a very different power delivery to the turbocharged four-cylinder engine. Peak pulling power doesn't arrive until 5,rpm, and the engine keeps climbing keenly to its 7,rpm limit, with a spine-tingling bellow from its standard sports exhaust.
With bhp, the manual version gets from mph in 4. The six-speed manual is ideal if you really want to feel involved, with a slick yet weighty shift action that perfectly matches the Boxster's meaty pedals and steering. There's a clever rev-matching system available, which ensures smooth, fast progress by making small adjustments to engine speed when changing gear.
You'll go even faster with the PDK twin-clutch gearbox, though — it can punch up and down through the gears with unrelenting ferocity if you should so desire, but is equally comfortable slurring its way through the gears either around town or on a motorway cruise. It can get from mph in a scarcely believable 3. Or that not all flat engines are actually boxers. Really though, there's not much to know. Basically, each piston in a boxer engine gets its own crank pin, so the pistons opposite each other move together.
The fact that these pistons move together, like a Boxer's gloves, is what gives this engine type it's name. Some flat engines use shared crank pins for opposing pistons, so they move opposite of each other. This setup can technically be thought of as a degree V layout. Ferrari's flat engine were technically degree V12s, though the company added to the confusion by calling the first car equipped with this motor the Berlinetta Boxer.
The 3D-printed cutaway of a boxer engine is a really helpful visual aid, so even if you know how these motors work, this video is still worth a view.
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