Boxster S engine to be replaced ?

[Guest]

Hi guys I wonder if anyone else has heard the rumour ( in my case from my OPC

) that the Boxster S engine is to be replaced with the 3.4l engine from the Cayman. If so I think this is reprehensible as those of us who bought the new 987 S are about to experience a considerably larger amount of depreciation than we had anticipated

 

[Mark_Bennett]

Porsche seem to be on a 2 year cycle of improvements being made to individual models, so this September would be about time for a revision of the 987.
Whether it gets the Cayman engine is debatable (where would they justify the Cayman price-difference then?) but as it is plug-and-play, it is hardly difficult for Porsche to be able to do it...

 

[Guest]

Hi mark you are right about the sept date being the possible change over as thats what I was told today whilst on a Porsche testing day. Wasn't sure if it was a tactic to get me to change my car sooner than i'd expected If it is a case of them changing the engine then i think i'll probably keep the current one anyway and have someone like AMD/DMS remap the engine at a fraction of the cost it would cost me to upgrade

 

[daro911]

ORIGINAL: gordonmatthews

Hi guys I wonder if anyone else has heard the rumour ( in my case from my OPC

) that the Boxster S engine is to be replaced with the 3.4l engine from the Cayman. If so I think this is reprehensible as those of us who bought the new 987 S are about to experience a considerably larger amount of depreciation than we had anticipated

Heard it at the begining of this year but it won't make a massive difference to our residuals as anyone buying used isn't going to worry about an extra 15bhp and 0.01 saving on the 0-62mph time []. 987 used prices are so low currently can't see 3.4L making that much difference especially if they want to tempt people out of there 3.2's

 

[THX911]

What would be worry would be the Boxster (non-S) taking the 3.2 engine but I am sure Porsche would not do that and will introduce a new 3.0 max for the Boxster...

 

[Black80XSA]

Since base 987 will be 250bhp they'll have to increase the S - thye camn easily justify a price hile on the S too - need soem thing to close the gap to the ludicrously priced CaymanS and BMWZ4M

 

[Guest]

Maybe just a bizarre coincidence, but I am looking at buying a new 987...and oddly enough you cannot get an S until around end of Sept..... but you can get a 2.7 in two months... I thought this was strange, obviously a simple explanation is that the the S is probably just in higher demand and thats what I init thought............

but when I read this thread, my conspiracy loving mind got revved up

but cannot make the connection....