Automobile Magazine, February 1998, Volume 12, Number 11
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Cover Story, Automobile of the Year, Porsche Boxster: The Enthusiast's Choice.

by David E. Davis

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After several days of hard driving on the best roads we could find... ...it was the Porsche Boxster that triumphed as Automobile Magazine's 1998 Automobile of the Year - a worthy winner in a difficult competition.

by Mark Gillies

Excerpts:

In what was a banner year for truly outstanding automobiles, the Porsche Boxster won Automobile Magazine's 1998 Automobile of the Year award because it made a pitch to our emotions, and we wilted...
...Someone really thought hard about where human beings like to have a steering wheel, where the shift lever should sit, how the pedals should fall, and everything else that makes a sports car feel like a natural extension of its driver's arms and legs...
...For the 1997 model year, Porsche expected to make about 38,000 cars, split roughly sixty/forty between the Boxster and the 911, respectively...
...The Boxster is all Porsche. And if you're prepared to forego any options, it can be yours for $41,000. For purebred, uncompromised engineering excellence...
...Someone, some day in the future, will write a chapter in a history book or even a whole volume about the Boxster and its derivatives. No matter how worthy or how excellent many of today's cars are, there will be very few that will inspire enough passion for that to happen.

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