Is it real? Well, Jerry Seinfeld was in the audience at the reveal. And he wouldn’t come to a show about nothing.
What they said: Porsche pulled the wraps off the two cars in Los Angeles because it is “by far the city with the highest population of Boxsters and Caymans,” said Detlev von Platen, president and chief executive of Porsche Cars North America.
What they didn’t say: No date was mentioned for introduction of hybrid models that are expected to arrive. Porsche doesn’t really see the point at this time, since it can accomplish its fuel-efficiency goals by tuning the existing engines.
What they said: Porsche pulled the wraps off the two cars in Los Angeles because it is “by far the city with the highest population of Boxsters and Caymans,” said Detlev von Platen, president and chief executive of Porsche Cars North America.
What they didn’t say: No date was mentioned for introduction of hybrid models that are expected to arrive. Porsche doesn’t really see the point at this time, since it can accomplish its fuel-efficiency goals by tuning the existing engines.
New boxer engines are the headliners; there’s the base 2.9-liter (it makes 255 horsepower in the Boxster and 265 in the Cayman) and a 3.4-liter with direct fuel injection for the S models (310 horses in the Boxster, 320 in the Cayman). Borrowed from the motor sports world is Porsche-Doppelkupplungsgetriebe — you can wimp-out and call it PDK; even the Porsche people do — an optional twin-clutch system that made its production debut in the 2009 911 series.
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