Talk Morgan Forums Community Vehicle Talk (non-Morgan) Boxter Experience

Me too and the nice color fits perfect!

Going to be interesting to see. Someone who enjoys the foibles and inadequacies of MMC cars as you do is not an obvious candidate for a car refined to the point of blandness /perfection. I would have expected you to chose something "more raw". You've surprised me.

Look forward to the comments in a year or so when the novelty has gone. Personally I am in love with every new boat I buy but it doesnt always last. In fact it only ever lasted with the last boat, the one that I sadly found after 11 years didnt go with an ageing body any longer.

You spelt 'character' wrong

Agreed... most of my cars last 2 to 2.5 years, some less: I get bored easily.
I can forgive MMC for most of the eccentricities of af Tarka, but not unexplained unreliability. Much will depend on the reason for the problems that have kept Tarka and I off the road for most of the summer.
The Porsche isn't bland in the way the Tesla was, but it does vere towards perfection in the way the A35, M140i and C63 did not. They should have been so much better... we shall see if that perfection bores me, or if I fall in love. The PDK box is stunning, utterly inconspicuous, every change imperceptible... until you need it to do as you ask, then it is responsive in a millisecond, or so it seems: wonderful!
I've not tried the race start yet, the tyres are too new....

The A35 box, a double clutch device was crude, dumb, lumpy changes, jerks and unimpressive. Both the A35 and C63 had adjustable ride, as does the Porsche. The difference is that the Porsche system seems matched to the chassis and car. Tarka is better than the two AMGs.

Today was a vintage car meeting in Adenau, the "village of the ring". I just wanted to look, but was waved in with my 4/4 and so we didn't have to walk a mile from the parking lot for ordinary cars. I thought ok, especially since the attendant said with a connoisseur's eye that your car is really old, anyone can see....
In the Oldtimer Ara there was also a BMW Plus8 like yours, Peter. He had also cheated his way in. When he drove off...what an awesome sound, what an impressive appearance. Keep Tarka (if it were me) You would be very very sorry after a year at the latest if you sell her. Maybe the Boxter is a pleasant interim until Tarka scores with you again. And...please don't make a mountain out of a molehill...just because the electrics are a bit temporarily dumbed down.
What I found very emotionally impressive today was that my little 4/4 was one of the most photographed cars, the people liked it. With her somewhat greenish gray colour and in her smallness, she causes the opposite of show or ostentation, rather sympathy. I hadn't even washed her, but all the dead mosquitoes and dust on the paint made people feel even more like it was something real.

Heinz, love the picture the Porsche with a lid on and a crook lock on the steering wheel and your topless 4/4 just sat there in the open totally loved and unscathed and in no danger at all, well of being loved too much maybe..

A friend in the green Morgan ? a betriebsausflug...

That was a coincidence, Richard, I didn't know the Morgan or her driver, it was a beautiful genuine 4/4 four seater, I would say from the early seventies, with steel rims and chrome caps.
Yes, you are absolutely right, I had parked my 4/4 there for three hours and we were all over the place, meeting friends, having a bratwurst, etc. Yes, there was no danger, and yes, the Porsche was secured like Fort Knox what I see only now in the photo where you say it....

Yes Heinz we are lucky there is so much love for these cute little cars of ours

Not Miklos by any chance on tour his is a green four seater ?

I don‘t thing so, Richard, not Miklos, she has a DAU plate which stands for Daun, a lovely small town in the more southern Eifel. Miklos has a Bavarian plate.

It is the only green four seater I know of Heinz so I was clutching at straws