2017 Porsche Boxster "sounds" like a Subaru
04-13-2016, 01:21 PM
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2017 Porsche Boxster "sounds" like a Subaru
Matt Farah in Road and Track about the 2017 Porsche Boxster:
The car fires to life with a sound I haven't heard before from a Porsche . . . But I have heard it from the Subaru WRX STI. In the same way the Shelby GT350 sounds like you asked Porsche's Motorsport division to build a Mustang, the Boxster sounds like if you asked Porsche to design you a WRX. It has the familiar Porsche clatter blended with the STI's thrrrrump and, for the first time in a Boxster, a bass note.
...Any changes to update the old flat-sixes would have been incremental in comparison to the giant leaps gained by going with a smaller, turbocharged engine.
The 2017 Porsche 718 Boxster S Does Everything Right
The car fires to life with a sound I haven't heard before from a Porsche . . . But I have heard it from the Subaru WRX STI. In the same way the Shelby GT350 sounds like you asked Porsche's Motorsport division to build a Mustang, the Boxster sounds like if you asked Porsche to design you a WRX. It has the familiar Porsche clatter blended with the STI's thrrrrump and, for the first time in a Boxster, a bass note.
...Any changes to update the old flat-sixes would have been incremental in comparison to the giant leaps gained by going with a smaller, turbocharged engine.
The 2017 Porsche 718 Boxster S Does Everything Right
04-13-2016, 03:08 PM
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I think it's equal length. Porsche has been equal length for as long as I remember.
With that said, why did we get UEL for WRX and WRX STIs since they were brought to the states? Cost? Emissions?
Pretty much the rest of the lineup got EL.
Pretty much the rest of the lineup got EL.
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04-13-2016, 07:38 PM
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If I'm not mistaken, the highest power variations of the vehicles would get the EL from factory, but that the "standard models" did not (taken from a worldwide viewpoint for Subaru). Extra cost and time in fabrication expenses for EL, so why bother?
The normal WRXs did not get EL even in Japan. Only top end and limited models like the S-series models got EL, as well as certain Legacy models (I'm including the twin scroll models as EL).
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04-14-2016, 10:27 AM
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Side note... this dude has clearly not driven a subaru very often. That thing sounds more like a subaru the harder you push it... the pops on the downshift.... when it opens up... the turbo sound through the exhaust when you're and building RPM's.
Seems like a really fun car to drive... But it better be for the $85k that car probably was after all the options.
Seems like a really fun car to drive... But it better be for the $85k that car probably was after all the options.
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