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the dilettante. The light-weight fabric top,
for example, is manually operated, and
needs some special insider knowledge to
secure it correctly. The seats adjust manually. The doors open from the cockpit via
fabric pull straps, rather than conventional handles.
All this, we feel, will make unfurling that
Porsche Boxter Spyder from its car-cover oh-
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so-extra-special, come a bright sun-shiny
Sunday morn ...
The price is R1 010 000, and the first shipment
has been sold. But we are assured by Porsche
that more are on the way to South Africa.
However, orders are coming in at a rate, so
get your name down asap. A Boxter costing
just over R1-million is something to get your
head around, but bear in mind that this is a
very special car. Back in the 1950s the Porsche
Speedster was seen as a stripped down version of the basic 356, and nowadays Speedsters are the most collectible of all 356s.
The same may well happen with the Boxter
Spyder, a couple of years from now, because
it is really, really special.
By Stuart Johnston