MoneywebDrive: Review
Is this the best-handling sports car in the world?
Threading the new 2016 Porsche Boxter Spyder through tiny back-roads in the Tuscan hillside, you find yourself asking the question: Is
this the best-handling sports car in the world
right now?
No matter what you throw at the car – hairpins, faster sweeps, mid-corner camber
changes, bumps and ripples – this new ultralight-weight mid-engined Porsche deals with
any road surface as if it was specifically developed for the precise occasion.
What’s more, the new Boxter Spyder is endowed with serious grunt. It uses a 3,8-litre
12
version of the famous horizontally-opposed
Porsche motor – even the GTS has to make do
with a mere 3,4 litres – and being naturally aspirated it has a power delivery that seems absolutely linear. With the relatively long travel
of the throttle pedal you can dial the precise
amount of power you want at any given time.
Porsche is proud of the fact that they have
shaved some 30 kg off the double-streamliner Spyder version of the Boxter, and that the
all-in un-laden weight now stands at 1 315 kg.
Given that the engine pumps out a robust
276 kW and 420 Nm between 4 750 and
6 000 rpm, you’ll get an idea of the thought