I just ordered a Boxster S...specs
Finally...I was able to convince my wife to end her SLK 32 AMG lease and forget about the SLK 55 AMG, especially since I testdrove the SLK 55 AMG and the only impressive things were the engine, the auto tranny and the exhaust note.
Handling was horrible, even below SLK 32 AMG level in my opinion. The heavy engine takes a "tribute".
Well, here are the specs for the ordered Boxster S:
- Basalt black met.
- Black leather with red stitching allover incl. steering wheel (I attached a 997 interior pic with this option)
- Red seatbelts (together with the red stitching a nice contrast to the red brake calipers)
- "Thicker" sport steering wheel (incl. red stitching)
- PCM 2 with phone module
- Tiptronic (my wife...
)
- Sport Chrono (for me...
)
- PASM (to satisy my wife AND me
)
- Heated seats
- Speed control
- Sport seats
- BOSE sound system
- Small carbon package
- Bi-Xenon lights
I wanted to get PCCB and bi-coloured leather but my wife wants red calipers and Porsche Exclusive department asked around 2700 Euro for red calipers with PCCB. Not acceptable. The red stitching looks more interesting compared to the bi-coloured leather and we also went for 18'' wheels instead of 19'' because of the "tiny" looking brake calipers with 19'' and the fact that my wife loves to scratch along boardwalks and 19'' are pretty expensive.
Factory pickup (here I come...hide your mules...) is around early June. 
Handling was horrible, even below SLK 32 AMG level in my opinion. The heavy engine takes a "tribute".
Well, here are the specs for the ordered Boxster S:
- Basalt black met.
- Black leather with red stitching allover incl. steering wheel (I attached a 997 interior pic with this option)
- Red seatbelts (together with the red stitching a nice contrast to the red brake calipers)
- "Thicker" sport steering wheel (incl. red stitching)
- PCM 2 with phone module
- Tiptronic (my wife...
)- Sport Chrono (for me...
)- PASM (to satisy my wife AND me
)- Heated seats
- Speed control
- Sport seats
- BOSE sound system
- Small carbon package
- Bi-Xenon lights
I wanted to get PCCB and bi-coloured leather but my wife wants red calipers and Porsche Exclusive department asked around 2700 Euro for red calipers with PCCB. Not acceptable. The red stitching looks more interesting compared to the bi-coloured leather and we also went for 18'' wheels instead of 19'' because of the "tiny" looking brake calipers with 19'' and the fact that my wife loves to scratch along boardwalks and 19'' are pretty expensive.
Factory pickup (here I come...hide your mules...
) is around early June.
The Tip seems to be the same like on the 997, reaction time, throttle response, shifting, everything seems to be very similar to the 997 Carrera version.
I'm extrapolating from 996TTS Tip w/upgraded, leather/alum shifter/handbrake.....seems like there are 2-3 codes to make sure stitching is deviated everywhere.....
) and a thicker steering wheel feels just better.
