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MORLEY TRIED HIS UTMOST NOT TO BE SEDUCED BY A PORSCHE BOXSTER S. NOW THERE’S ONE IN THE MBC
I really tried hard not to buy this car. Pulled every trick in the book to avoid owning it. Honest, I did. Darling…
Oh sure, I’ve had a major Jones for a Boxster S from the moment I jagged one for a few hundred kliks as part of a Car of the Year gig back in 2000. But I swear, on my sainted mother’s life, I could not have done more in my quest not to buy this one. But the cosmos was having none of it.
It all started about 18 months ago when Torrens and I were playing dream garage (again) and the subject of first-gen Porsche Boxsters reared its gorgeous little convertible head. Over a beer or three, we started looking at the classifieds and discovered that prices were then about as low as they were ever likely to go.
Torrens professed his view that a 2.7 manual would do the job, while I disagreed, concluding that, as well as another beer, I badly needed the extra torque, bigger four-pot brakes and extra cog of the S. Actually, that rule about always buying the fastest version of any car was about the only one
