Carl.Young
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[FONT=Verdana"]I've just come back from visiting Specialist Cars of Malton - a good experience in itself, but not the reason for this post. On the drive back I got to thinking about all the negative posts I've read here lately, and how those posts are the polar opposite of my - and I suspect most other peoples experience with the Boxster. I left home this morning in cold but dry conditions and enjoyed a lively blat along the pleasant back roads where I live, going to Malton. It was a great drive, mostly because I've been having to use my car for daily duties the last 6 months (out at 5am, home around 8pm) and it was nice just to enjoy a leisurely drive without thinking about work etc etc. Whist I was in Malton, the weather took a turn for the worse - firstly it rained very heavily and then turned to snow. So the journey back was a little more 'challenging' in my old, battered, no traction controlled, fairly basic little bundle of metal nirvana. The roads were either like rivers, or turning a little slippery. So eventually after navigating carefully along the back roads, I emerged on to the A19. I unclenched my cheeks, and opened the taps just a little more on a nice, clear, A road. And this is what got me thinking. My car is now 7 years old, and I've owned it for 5 of those years. It has never once let me down. It can and does cope with the sort of conditions I've just described, stupidly well for the sort of car it is. At 5am on the coldest of winter mornings it turns over first time, wakes me up, and transports me surprisingly comfortably to my destination. At 8pm on horrible, dark winter evenings it does the same on the way home. It has given me more pleasure than any other car I've ever owned. It's the only car I've owned long term and not gotten bored with. It's the only car I've owned that can be driven on long distance motorway journeys without discomfort, and yet can then thrill me with it's superb handling on a gnarly twisty back road. I don't care about oil leaks (like that's something new on a Porsche). I don't care that the brake discs are 'apparently' fragile (they contain a lot of cast iron - that's why they don't fade). It is, as one reviewer said a while ago, a near perfect sports car. 'Nuff said.![[FONT=verdana,geneva"]](/forum/styles/default/pcgb/space.gif ". [FONT=verdana,geneva\"]")
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