Don’t shoot me - Boxster/Cayman prestige?

[Dabz]

This may ruffle some feathers and I apologise to those who take offence, but two people have already asked me this same thing recently.

I’m fairly new to Porsche ownership (3yrs) but long term petrolhead. I’ve always been told that the Boxster/Cayman is the “poor man’s Porsche” and carries far less prestige than most other Porsche models. “entry level model” and “not a real Porsche” seem to be posted on Instagram a lot too.

so, with the 718 EV coming soon, we hope, are these sentiments true, do they carry any weight? Does it even matter to anyone other than internet keyboard warriors?

Asking to see if there’s a healthy respectful debate to be had about this and hoping this doesn’t descend in to throwing muck at eachother. It would be nice to get some nice early debate in this 718 EV forum

Personally I’d love an electric or BHEV 911 but that probably makes me strange, so in the absence of one of those I’m excited to drive the 718 EV and see how fun it is

 

[atebit]

Actually iirc the Macan is (was?) actually the cheapest entry point, at least in NA.

Could care less about “prestige”. Not everyone tracks their Porsche. A Base 718 is plenty of car for me, I expect the EV to be more car than I need.

Don’t be “this guy”: