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Originally Posted by Irace86
Am I the only one who just realized the new 718 Cayman and Boxster are no longer tiered in pricing?
Yes, I think everyone who is an enthusiast knew the Porsches were getting changes. The whole lineup was losing displacement and getting turbos, and actually the Boxster and Cayman were losing cylinders, going from flat sixes to flat fours, but I didn't know the Boxster and Cayman are priced the same. In fact, like most cars, the convertibles are more expensive than the hardtops, so the Boxster and Boxster S are over a grand more than the Cayman and Cayman S, respectively.
To the uninitiated, the Cayman was made to fill the price, performance and luxury gap between the Boxster and the Carrera. And unless I totally missed something from the previous generations, that hasn't changed, so I was kind of shocked to see that the two different models are now equipped the same and priced the same.
And it is odd. A Miata is a convertible. The Miata RF is the hardtop. The Mustang is the hardtop. The Mustang Convertible is the soft top. The Boxster is the soft top. The Cayman is the hardtop.
Am I the only one who is blown by this change and this convention? I guess if BMW and Audi can have different models for their two doors and four doors then Porsche can have different models for their hardtop and soft top, but yea, kinda odd.
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Ok, to quote myself here, and continue...
I was a little less freaked out by this nomenclature because I realized the four door 911 is called the Panamera. Ok, they have different names for drastically different vehicles, ok, so the 4 door 911 is the Panamera; the hardtop Boxster is called the Cayman. Ok cool, I can live with that.
Oh wait, there is a hardtop 911 and a targa 911 and a convertible/cabriolet 911, and they are all called the 911/Carrera. Omg I'm about to burst.
To be honest I must have read the articles wrong because I thought they would make the Boxster a flat four turbo, the Cayman would be a lower displacement flat six and the Carrera would be a lower displacement flat six turbo, but apparently they bucked the three tier system. Not saying it is bad, but truly blowing my mind.