FOUR-POT POWER FOR NEXT BOXSTER AND CAYMAN?
Seems the answer is yes, but not for a little while yet (2015)
Not the new Boxster. Either of them. ObviouslyFed up of random rumours about the spec of the new Porsche 911? Fancy a new Stuttgart-designed car to get worried about? Course you do. And here on PH your wish is our command.
Because the third-generation Boxster is due to be unwrapped at the 2012 Detroit motor show, with its coupe sibling, the second-gen Cayman expected to arrive before the year is out.
And the first significant rumour? Both Cayman and Boxster will go to four-cylinder power. But fans of six-cylinder power needn't worry too much, because Car Magazine's Georg Kacher reckons this won't happen until the two cars are facelifted in 2015/16.
When the four-pot Boxster and Cayman do come on stream, however, they will most likely be powered by a range of 2.5-litre twin-turbo flat-four models, with up to 355bhp and 347lb ft of torque - so they won't be lacking in power or character.
Although a hybrid Boxster/Cayman is also mooted for then, so we'll see if Porsche can be the firm to actually make a sporty hybrid work within a couple of years...
There is also a 1.6-litre four-cylinder engine in the offing, but it looks like this could be reserved for the oft-mooted sub-Boxster roadster, which could also get VW, Audi and even Seat siblings.
Dean not impressed by hybrid PorschesWe suppose you could think of that one as a kind of 21st-century Porsche 914, although German mag Auto Bild reckons that Porsche is planning to Revive the 550 Spyder name for its new sportster.
Seems the answer is yes, but not for a little while yet (2015)
Not the new Boxster. Either of them. ObviouslyFed up of random rumours about the spec of the new Porsche 911? Fancy a new Stuttgart-designed car to get worried about? Course you do. And here on PH your wish is our command.
Because the third-generation Boxster is due to be unwrapped at the 2012 Detroit motor show, with its coupe sibling, the second-gen Cayman expected to arrive before the year is out.
And the first significant rumour? Both Cayman and Boxster will go to four-cylinder power. But fans of six-cylinder power needn't worry too much, because Car Magazine's Georg Kacher reckons this won't happen until the two cars are facelifted in 2015/16.
When the four-pot Boxster and Cayman do come on stream, however, they will most likely be powered by a range of 2.5-litre twin-turbo flat-four models, with up to 355bhp and 347lb ft of torque - so they won't be lacking in power or character.
Although a hybrid Boxster/Cayman is also mooted for then, so we'll see if Porsche can be the firm to actually make a sporty hybrid work within a couple of years...
There is also a 1.6-litre four-cylinder engine in the offing, but it looks like this could be reserved for the oft-mooted sub-Boxster roadster, which could also get VW, Audi and even Seat siblings.
Dean not impressed by hybrid PorschesWe suppose you could think of that one as a kind of 21st-century Porsche 914, although German mag Auto Bild reckons that Porsche is planning to Revive the 550 Spyder name for its new sportster.
