Drove my friend/colleague's Boxster a few days ago...
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Drove my friend/colleague's Boxster a few days ago...
It felt great great, especially with the top down. I took a few back roads and it hugged the road and remained completely level, no matter how hard I took a curve.
Then I got into my S4 to go home and noticed a lot of differences, both good and bad. The contrast was amazing.
The S4's controls felt a lot softer than the Boxster's. The clutch and the accelerator both felt so soft. Especially the brake pedal, was so much firmer and easier to modulate on the Boxster. This is one of my all-time biggest gripes with the S4.
My stock suspension felt a lot softer but it felt much more comfortable, and I prefer it but a coilover setup is in my future, once the stock ones wear out, maybe in another 20K miles when I'll hit about 50-55K miles. But then again, I still have my soft snow tires on.
Anyway, OTOH, the S4 felt significantly faster. The boxster was the NOT the S.
I never drove a Porsche, nor a convertible, nor a 2-seater before and now I know how different a single-purpose car feels like compared to a sports sedan that has to make compromises in certain attributes.
Don't get me wrong, I can't think of any other car I would rather have than my S4, which is running perfectly (so far 32K miles), my primary and only car. But my friend/colleagues has 2 other cars, a sport ute and an A4 Avant for those other purposes. Maybe one day, I too can have multiple vehicles for specific purposes but I love the fact that my S4 represents so many qualities in one package, sporty-utility-luxury, that's in perfect balance for my needs.
Just rambling while I suffer a flu this weekend.
-HSJ
Then I got into my S4 to go home and noticed a lot of differences, both good and bad. The contrast was amazing.
The S4's controls felt a lot softer than the Boxster's. The clutch and the accelerator both felt so soft. Especially the brake pedal, was so much firmer and easier to modulate on the Boxster. This is one of my all-time biggest gripes with the S4.
My stock suspension felt a lot softer but it felt much more comfortable, and I prefer it but a coilover setup is in my future, once the stock ones wear out, maybe in another 20K miles when I'll hit about 50-55K miles. But then again, I still have my soft snow tires on.
Anyway, OTOH, the S4 felt significantly faster. The boxster was the NOT the S.
I never drove a Porsche, nor a convertible, nor a 2-seater before and now I know how different a single-purpose car feels like compared to a sports sedan that has to make compromises in certain attributes.
Don't get me wrong, I can't think of any other car I would rather have than my S4, which is running perfectly (so far 32K miles), my primary and only car. But my friend/colleagues has 2 other cars, a sport ute and an A4 Avant for those other purposes. Maybe one day, I too can have multiple vehicles for specific purposes but I love the fact that my S4 represents so many qualities in one package, sporty-utility-luxury, that's in perfect balance for my needs.
Just rambling while I suffer a flu this weekend.
-HSJ
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A loaded Boxster S costs around $60K. For that money..........
You could build an S4 that "feels" just as tight and sporty as the Boxster, and is still a multipurpose vehicle. Only downside, of course, is no ragtop.
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