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Saga
Aug 17, 2009

wallaka posted:

No engine problems, though. I do miss the handling but I couldn't take that at least once a month it wasn't going to crank. I traded it in for a nice reliable Dodge.

I test drove a 986, plain jane Boxster about 10 years ago and, for the all of 30 minutes I had with it, it felt like a generic big, grippy car. Granted it was a test drive in Buttfuck, PA and it was a used base model 986, but I was expecting something special because Porsche. Compared to something like a mark 2 Miata or mark 3 MR2, which I was also considering at the time, it felt less like a sports car and more like my 330ci, only with a cloth top. Lots of power, lots of grip, lots of sheet metal, so not the sort of thing you'd want to gently caress with unless you had some handy run-off and no solid obstacles in the way. Can you actually throw it around on a road and get it sliding once you get used to it? Or are they mostly only fun on a track day?

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