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2013 Porsche Boxster: Lighter, added muscular, added characteristic and added fuel efficient

ATLANTA, January 12, 2012 - Never afore in the history of the Porsche Boxster has a change of bearing been so comprehensive. The open-top two-seat car receives an absolutely new failing physique and a absolutely revamped chassis. The new Boxster weighs beneath than the antecedent bearing and rides on a best wheelbase and a added track. These new ambit are accompanying with beyond auto and a new electromechanical ability council arrangement to decidedly enhance the mid-engine sports car's active dynamics. The new Boxster boasts above achievement and is aswell up to 15 percent added fuel-efficient than antecedent models on the European cycle.

The new Boxster allowances not alone from an added wheelbase but aswell beneath overhangs, while the windscreen has been confused forward. The cartage are amid by the absolutely redesigned, absolutely electric top, which now dispenses with a convertible top alcove lid. The autogenous abstraction offers the occupants added amplitude and reflects the news Porsche outline with a raked centermost console, which, basal with the Carrera GT ensures bigger ergonomics in all models.

The new sports car bearing makes its admission in the archetypal Porsche bond of Boxster and Boxster S. Both models are powered by flat-six engines with absolute ammunition injection, the ability of which is added added by electrical arrangement recuperation, thermal administration and start/stop function. The abject model's new ability assemblage delivers 265 hp from a 2.7 liter displacement - ten hp added than its beyond displacement predecessor.

Technically, it is now based on the 3.4-liter engine of the Boxster S. This now delivers 315 hp, which is 5 hp added than before. Both models affection a chiral six-speed gearbox as accepted with the seven-speed Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe (PDK) accessible as an option. Both sports cars accomplish their best ammunition burning and dispatch achievement with the PDK. With accessory changes after abeyance to the ability flow, the Boxster sprints from aught to 60 mph in 5.4 seconds, the Boxster S in 4.7 seconds.

To enhance active dynamics yet further, Porsche offers the Sport Chrono Package as an alternative added for the Boxster, featuring activating manual mounts for the aboriginal time. Aswell new in the Boxster is Porsche Torque Vectoring (PTV) with a automated rear arbor cogwheel lock.

The new Boxster models are accepted in U.S. showrooms in aboriginal summer 2012. The basal account amount iwill be $49,500 for the Boxster and $60,900 for the Boxster S, not including a $950 destination charge.