Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

I’ve already messaged Ali from Fat Creations

Mini roundabouts must be fun..

Excellent. this is gonna be good.

@user75204 Dollar bills on the reg plate seems most apt.

What a hideous thing all round. But rare spot for sure

I'm going to go look at a Transit on Saturday. 2012 - 2.2 TDCI Trend. MWB

How did it go?

Fuck knows how much it’ll cost.

Anyway, it appears that Porsche produced virtually no ‘02-‘04 Boxster S models with cruise control. Plenty of specialists can retro fit it with the appropriate stalk and the necessary cables are reasonably inexpensive. May well have a crack at it myself if I can find one in the right colour.

Who’d have thought that seal grey was such a difficult colour to track down.

In the meantime, I have to get the M3 detailed prior to handing it over to collectingcars for all the fun and games of selling it...

Out of totally nonconfrontational curiosity, why a boxster? Can you show me - again just out of curiosity - some inspirational examples? I've always thought they looked a like a Pontiac.

Ah makes sense. Looked more serious than sounded for sure

Smiles per gallon - they’ve bottomed out as far as depreciation goes and (apart from the one I bought from a particularly sketchy bloke in the Middle East), I’ve never had one

I've always thought they looked a like a Pontiac.

When you're driving it you can't see what it looks like. Show car vs. go car. If I didn't have an irrational dislike of cabrios - in my book a car should either have a solid roof or no roof at all - I'd be tempted by a Boxster. Classic flat 6 and awesome chassis - what's not to like? Unless you're bq.

Agree 100% with this sentiment. Can't see it while driving. On the cabrio thing, I've never had one, but I can imagine a Boxster is a hoot having spent some time in a Cayman. Would defo like to buy one one day.

Oh and Brommers, does a 987 Boxster Spyder fit into your definition of no roof on a technicality?

Engines are less stressed than in the contemporary 911, so fewer issues there. Bear in mind that the engine block dimensions, and therefore the cylinder spacing, is the same in the 2.5 litre 986 Boxster and the 3.8 litre 997.1 911.

My 3.7 litre engine started life as a 3.2 litre Boxster S short block.

having spent some time in a Cayman.

I used to have a Cayman. Loved it.

does a 987 Boxster Spyder fit into your definition of no roof on a technicality?

Yes, but it has a windscreen. No roof means no windscreen for me. Unnecessary weight.

I'm going to go look at a Transit on Saturday. 2012 - 2.2 TDCI Trend. MWB

How did it go?

Disappointing, did not buy anything despite them showing me into the secret second and third compounds.

For 5.5k I thought I would get more that what I was shown. Medium high roof means I cant stand up in it, but High roof is way high. Also MWB isnt very long.

So, I want something that is bright and shiny and clean, that is also bigger on the inside.

Am having a rethink.

Get the 718 Boxster S.

Point being it doesn't look like a Boxster. 😎

Wow, you're a purist. Guess this counts though!

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Get the 718 Boxster S.

Four cylinders.

Race series too.

It’s a Clio in a Chanel dress...

More money to buy a skoda estelle than a boxster.

If you are going cabrio mk1 mx5, mk1 mr2 t bar, lancia montecarlo or fiat x1/9 are more fun.

EDIT: frogot the smart radster

Uh.. isn't it a bespoke alloy chassis, mid engined and RWD? That's a bit different form a Clio. But to be fair it's really just an oddity with that weird flyscreen thing.

Nah, too heavy. Apparently when the Lotus engineers developing the Elise saw the Renault Spider chassis they assumed it was the jig for building the chassis. Anything with no roof or windscreen shouldn't weigh more than about 600kg wet.

The engine was fitted to a clio, megan and laguna.

All the carpet? What’s wrong with carpet?
I would have done a similar thing with the Aston if I had found a DBS owner who ordered a 2+0 interior in Moon Shadow and suddenly wanted rear seats. As it was I just put seatbelts round the wine cases and it was all fine.