Comments by "Rousseau" (@rousseau327) on "Porsche Boxster Spyder: the best Boxster yet?" video.
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+Stephen Unless you're actually a driver worth his or her salt, and is actually serious about track days, all that stuff about torsional rigidity, wider track, you won't even notice it. Otherwise, if you can't utilize those technical advantages, it's all in your head. The Spyder, with 95% of the performance of the GT4, with the open air, on a mountain/seaside road, with the exhaust screaming behind your ear in addition to the experience of driving the car (turn in, yaw, steering, etc.), is what makes the Spyder more of an experience than the GT4. Nowadays, purists are all about the experience, ie the whole manual vs. DCT debate. If purists are really so much about the experience, the extra performance that the GT4 offers, that 90% of drivers would not even notice, is not something that is valid towards the typical purist, just like how the quicker shift times of a DCT do not override the experience that the manuals give you.
Of course, if it's simply just your personal preference to like the GT4 over the Spyder, there's nothing wrong with that, and that doesn't mean you're not a purist. It's just that in my opinion, the Spyder provides the experience that entices purists that the GT4 doesn't. But then again, there are purists who are very into the numbers and what's on paper, so I can see where you're coming from.
And I mean, as far as your coupe 911 vs. cab 911 thing goes, I actually agree with that, but the Boxster Spyder isn't exactly a normal convertible, is it?
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