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Originally Posted by Shamu I have owned and serviced two boxsters myself and frankly found them far less frustrating than the Z. And the quality of the Porsche engineering and

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Old 02-05-2013, 10:42 AM   #25 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Shamu
I have owned and serviced two boxsters myself and frankly found them far less frustrating than the Z. And the quality of the Porsche engineering and materials makes Boxster worth extra $25k. Heck you'd spend $25k fixing all the flaws on A Z and still not have a car that rides or handles better than a Boxster. I won't even start on all parts that have failed in first 12 miles of my track going Z.

From the brakes to the tranny and motor it's just a far better car than many on the road.
It sounds a little like you are you comparing road-driven Porsches to a track-driven Z here...

For a car with much better engineering and materials, I don't see how you can't acknowledge that normally simple maintenance procedures seem excessively complex in this car. That is part of the engineering design, and more specifically, the part where it falls a little short imo. I don't remember anyone saying that because of this, the Porsche has inferior paint or interior or power or insert-any-random-component-here.

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Do yourself a favor. Go find an old 350z with say 150,000 miles on it and compare it to Porsche with same age and mileage.
Favor? Comparing sports cars with 150K miles seems completely unrelated to this conversation except that you wanted to bring up how much better quality Porsche is. Don't get me wrong, I love Porsche and would love to own one, but the 370z gives me a great imitation within my budget. My guess is most people who can afford a new Porsche aren't even coming close to 150K miles before they get a new car. IIRC, the original conversation here was about the procedure to change the air filter...


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