在保时捷Boxster 986正式亮相前的1992年,一段鲜为人知的设计故事曾在意大利都灵上演。当时的保时捷正面临着产品老化和销量下滑的困境,公司最新设计仍停留在1978年推出的928车型,即便是后来的968也只是944的改进版本。在这个关键时刻,意大利传奇设计公司博通 ...

About six months ago, I decided to buy a Porsche Boxster. “It’s like, probably the last cheap Porsche,” I mumbled into my beard. Fast forward, and I still don’t have one, but what I do have is an ...

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Most car guys won't buy a soft top. They will, quite reasonably, point out that the lack of metal roof means something is missing structurally, leading to body flex (aka scuttle shake). This ...

If you want to own a modern Porsche on the cheap, a 986-generation Boxster is the way to go. Introduced as an entry-level alternative to the 911 in the late Nineties, the first generation of the line ...

Even Porsche itself will admit that the beginning of the 1990s was a “very difficult period” for the company. The “excessively high” cost of building four vehicles that didn’t share major components ...

Almost three decades after the launch of the 986-era Porsche Boxster, they’re under secondhand scrutiny like never before. There’s the looming arrival of an electric Boxster for one thing, the thought ...