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Porsche Boxster = Failure In Life

daro911

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"And nor should you go for the entry-level V8, because nothing says a man has failed in life quite so well as a 500 badge on the back of his Mercedes. Apart, perhaps, from a Porsche Boxster."

The full bollox can be read here:- [:D]http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article2234517.ece

Or the plain truth here [;)]
http://www.channel4.com/4car/rt/porsche/boxster/583/1

Assets
A sensational driving experience in a surprisingly practical 'every-day-use' package.

Drawbacks
Chassis could handle a lot more power, some may think it looks too much like the old car

Verdict
Porsche spent a lot of cash on this second-generation Boxster and it shows. Why spend another £30K on a 911?
 
Entertaining chap, that Clarkson.
And thats it. He's not serious nor is he particularly intelligent or reasonable and he doesn't have an opinion really worth listening to.
Entertaining though.
 
All this from Clarkson who was the proud owner of a Ford GT which was a complete Lemon of a car so much so Ford bought it back from him to shut him up .. and then he buys a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder as a dare from Hampster and May and then claims to "forgets" to cancel the order after Hampsters crash

Great entertainer ....... [:D]
 
one of the more amusing (if not the only amusing)terry wogan interviews was of clarkson-
clarkson:some tosh
wogan:you dont think anyone really cares what your opinion is do you??!!![:D][:D][:D]
 
He's an entertaining journo though. I really enjoyed watching "Inventions that Changed the World". He loves his engineering.

He's ST rants are notoriously a load of old rhubarb!
 

And a few more.....



"I'm sorry, but having a DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch. If you've got even half a scrotum it's not going to happen."

"We start tonight with the highlight of my childhood. It's the Ladybird Book of Motorcars from 1963, and as you would imagine it's full of rubbish really. Just endless boring grey shapes, until you get to page 40, where you find the Maserati 3500 GT. Now this for me, when I was little, was like kind of Jordan and Cameron Diaz. In a bath together. With a Lightning jet fighter. And lots of jelly."

"[about Porsche Cayman S] There are many things I'd rather be doing than driving it, including waiting for Bernard Manning to come off stage in a sweaty nightclub, and then licking his back clean"

..."the last time someone was as wrong as you, was when a politician stepped off an aeroplane in 1939 waving a piece of paper in the air saying there will be no war with Germany"

"America: 250 million w****rs living in a country with no word for w****r"

On the Alfa Romeo Brera... "I only have to imagine this in black, with tan leather and I'm nursing a semi!"

Illustrating the lack of power of a Boxster - 'It couldn't pull a greased stick out of a pig's bottom'

On the Vauxhall Vectra VXR:
"there is a word to describe this car: it begins with "s" and ends with "t" and its not "soot".
Hammond:"So its fairly terrible then?"
Clarkson:"Oh no...losing your leg is fairly terrible: this is another league of badness!"

"some say, that he used to throw microwave ovens at homeless people - and that he long before anyone else realised that jade goody is a racist pig faced waste of blood and organs............all we know, is that he's called the Stig!"

"the Suzuki Wagon R should be avoided like unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite"

"Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary... That's what gets you."

'The air conditioning in Lambos used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw'

"Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable. More comfortable than what... BEING STABBED?"

"The only person to ever look good in the back of a 4-seater convertable was Adolf Hitler"

(Fed up during the caravaning trip)
"You aren't allowed to have a party, you aren't allowed to have music, you aren't allowed to play ball games, you aren't allowed to have a camp fire, you have to park within two feet of a post, you have to keep quiet, you have to be in bed by eleven. This is not a holiday, it's a concentration camp!"

"This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers.
Not that that's much to shout about. That's like saying "Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.""

(mercedes CLs55) "Braking in this car is so brutal, it would be less painful to actually hit the tree you were trying to miss."

"I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?"

Clarksons highway code on cyclists: 'trespassers in the motorcars domain, they do not pay road tax and therefore have no right to be on the road, some of them even believe they are going fast enough to not be an obstruction. Run them down to prove them wrong'

"I was reading The Mirror the other day and came across a letter from a reader who wrote, 'I was riding my bike to work when this red Ferrari pulled up next to me. Out of the window, Jeremy Clarkson shouted 'Get a car', and drove off.' What I actually said was, 'Get a car you hatchet faced, leaf-eating N**i"

"Britian's nuclear submarines have been deemed unsafe...probably because they don't have wheel-chair access"

1) "If we are being honest HIV is a pathetic virus, it can only live in the air for 6seconds and it does what ebola does to you in 10days in 10years"

2) "Mandela just doesn't deserve his pedestal, I'm mean the blokes a bit dodgy"
3) On Mandela's claim that Cuba is a good advert for democracy!!!
"Well Mr Mandela why don't you go and ask one of the 12 year old cuban prostitutes which way her parents voted"

"Now we get quite a lot of complaints that we don't feature enough affordable cars on the show......so we'll kick off tonight with the cheapest Ferrari of them all!"

On the Lotus Elise: "This car is more fun than the entire french air force crashing into a firework factory"

"Now as you can see I lost the battle to have two engines on the back because of three very important reasons. One: weight. This is 600 Lbs and that's the same as having a whole American sitting on the tailgate..."

"I would still buy the DB9 over this, and save myself the £60,000. The problem with this car is its gearbox, its just........"

Hammond:"THAT bad is it?"
Clarkson:"Oh no. Robert Mugabe is bad, this is in a whole different league!"

In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, put it on sale, and then found out how it handled. Usually when one of their customers wrote to the factory complaining about how dead he was.

"the DB9 has rear seats but no mammal yet created, not even when God was on the LSD trip that gave us the pink flamingo, could fit into them."

Assessing Hammond's crash:
Clarkson:"you can see from the tape that the tyre is starting to come apart. now why didnt you spot that?!"
Hammond:"I had a lot on: i was doing 288 mph."
Clarkson: "What do you mean you had a lot on? I can be in the office on the phone, doining the paperwork, kids are shouting at me, wife etc, if a lion walks in, I'm going to notice it!"

"Sure it's quiet, for a diesel. But that's like being well-behaved...
for a murderer."

"I dont often agree with the RSPCA as i believe it is an animals duty to be on my plate at supper time"

"there are footballers wives that would be happy with this quality of stitching... on their face"

"Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work.
It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face. "

"Much more of a hoot to drive than you might imagine. Think of it, if you like, as a librarian with a G-string under the tweed. I do, and it helps."

"you cant have this car with a diesel, its like saying, i wont go to stringfellows tonight, ill get my mum to give me a lapdance, shes a woman!"

Tonight, the new Viper, which is the American equivalent of a sports car... in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of a President.

Jeremy said this of the Porsche Cayenne! "Honestly, I have seen more attractive gangrenous wounds than this. It has the sex appeal of a camel with gingivitis."
 
ORIGINAL: Dapster

Jeremy said this of the Porsche Cayenne! "Honestly, I have seen more attractive gangrenous wounds than this. It has the sex appeal of a camel with gingivitis."

How odd! I am sure that I saw a Press release from Porsche GB referring to JC himself in exactly the same terms [;)]
 
Have just sat here in stitches..........Watching on a Sunday night you dont appreciate what a plonker JC can be at times. To be fair, he know his stuff and some of his one liners are classics but for a guy who buys a Ford GT, drives it for 17 feet and then spends thousands of pounds whilst its being repaired, I'd rather take my chance with my Boxster.........

Jeremy, You are funny...............
 
I think we have to be incredibly careful when digesting the verbal antics of Jeremy & Co. his words can be both offensive and entertaining depending on personal bias. But are they devices to get the audience to expand their frequencies of thoughts?

One of the best "˜one liners' I ever heard was at the Reading Festival at the time when they had just introduced the Poll Tax and confusion and doubt was rife.

"The POLL TAX, (sudden uncomfortable silence), don't pay it (cheers & approving applaud), & then claim a rebate (laughter & further applauds)". "" The truth is, at the time councils didn't advise the public that rates may vary according to circumstances why not question the vanilla bill and get an accurate one instead?

The BBC bods are a funny and clever bunch. Clarksons "˜one liners' may on the surface be innocuous, but pause a little before judging comprehensively. If you don't get the "˜one liner' the odds are you are not the intended individual for which the message was intended. Of all his criticisms of the Porsche 911's, it is in my minds eye a number of statements of how frustratingly great these vehicles are & his desperate wish for these qualities to be of Ferrari, ...we know it will never happen. ;-)

"¦Clarkson, do keep ranting.
 
Lets be honest nobody really takes anything Clarkson says seriously do they?
All us Clarkson fans love him for his sense of humour and banter he has on top gear with the other presenters, basically bullying them into submission, and there is nothing he enjoys more than baiting the Hamster, a previous Boxster owner and Porsche fan......end of
 
Hamster doesn't like Boxsters either... (He grudgingly conceded the S "was'nt too bad".

James is the Boxster owner.
 
ORIGINAL: Mark Bennett

Hamster doesn't like Boxsters either... (He grudgingly conceded the S "was'nt too bad".

James is the Boxster owner.
with cocoa interior[:mad:]
[:D][:D][:D]
 
I feel sorry for all those M3 drivers who cant afford an M6
Or what about the S4 and RS4?
TT and R8?
Golf GTi and R32?
Exige and GT3?
997 C2 and 997 C2S?
Gallardo and Mercielago?

Its all relative for example...
F430 and F599?
F599 and Enzo?
Enzo and Veyron?
Veyron and 250GTO?
250GTO and a castle!!!!!!!!!!!

The Box is the only car that people prattle on about like that but there are plenty more around...
 
ORIGINAL: pete36

I feel sorry for all those M3 drivers who cant afford an M6
Or what about the S4 and RS4?
TT and R8?
Golf GTi and R32?
Exige and GT3?
997 C2 and 997 C2S?
Gallardo and Mercielago?

Its all relative for example...
F430 and F599?
F599 and Enzo?
Enzo and Veyron?
Veyron and 250GTO?
250GTO and a castle!!!!!!!!!!!

The Box is the only car that people prattle on about like that but there are plenty more around...

I just feel sorry that the non-turbo 911 owners can't afford a 997Turbo or a GT2 and sorry for myslef that I cannot afford a Carrera GT (the next nearest mid-engine equivalent in the Porsche marque) :ROFLMAO:
 
But guys, whether you drive a 2.5 Boxster or a Carrera GT, it doesnt matter what other people say, I for one could afford a supposedly better Porsche than my Boxster S but having driven a few, the beaming smile I get when I'm winding through snake pass lights up half of Macclesfield.

I for one may get another porsche but I wont replace the Boxster !!!!

(Thats a big V to mr Clarkson)
 
ORIGINAL: bluearmy87

Lets be honest nobody really takes anything Clarkson says seriously do they?

Car nerds like us don't take him very seriously, but the rest of the public really do. I worked for a manufacturer years ago, and each episode of TG was closely scrutinised and the opinions of the show would certainly have repercussions internally. Just see how many people in this sad world concur with the "couldn't afford a 911" bollox without ever having driven one. It's basic envy...
 

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