’s ethos to conjure huge fun from modest ingredients, but the old car’s biggest shortfalls - a lack of mid-range torque and precision at the limit - have been rectified. The result is one of the most engaging cars on sale, at any price.
The four-cylinder boxer engine now displaces 2.4-litres, power has swelled to 231bhp and chassis developments have brought the package alive. It’s now genuinely quick across the ground but still willing to indulge a more flamboyant driving style., our 2020 Car of the Year.
- another eCoty winner - has a lighter touch but is no less brilliant, with a freakishly absorbent chassis and communicative controls that few cars have matched before or since.The recipe seems simple on paper, but Porsche continues to pull magic from the two-seat, six-cylinder, rear wheel drive Boxster.
form, with an engine and chassis that scream motorsport. There are few greater joys than slicing through gears to make the 414bhp 4-litre flat six sing, which it will do all the way to 8000rpm.has never had such an exquisite engine, but the rest of the car is remarkable in its own right. Early models used a light, characterful Rover K-Series motor nestled within a dainty fibreglass body, and with an extruded aluminium chassis, weight dipped well below 800kg.