Porsche unveiled the facelifted Porsche Boxster roadster and the facelifted Porsche Cayman coupe at the 2008 Los Angeles International Auto Show. The duo now offers the PDK dual clutch transmission replacing the outgoing Tiptronic S slushbox, and the Boxster S and Cayman S now has direct fuel injection on its 3.4 litre engines.
Other than a folding soft top on the Boxster and a coupe roof on the Cayman, the two cars also have some differences in design such as the extra diffuser inserts on the Boxster and the wind deflector plate on the Cayman. On the front end, each have their own front bumper design. Even the front signal lamps are configured differently. While both use LED signal lamps, the Cayman’s LEDs are arranged in a square like the face of dice while the Boxster gets a horizontal row of 4 LEDs.
The base engine in the Boxster and Cayman is the 2.9 litre boxer engine, producing 255hp in the Boxster and 265hp in the Cayman. This mean other than being a roadster and coupe version of the same car, the coupe is now more powerful than the roadster across the range as even in the S versions, the direct fuel injected 3.4 litre engine in the Cayman makes 320hp, a 10hp advantage over the 3.4 litre unit in the Boxster S which makes 310hp.
The new cars are more fuel efficient than the pre-facelift versions. The 2.9 litre version does 8.9 litres per 100km according to the EU4 standard, which is 11% less than the outgoing Tiptronic S model.
Look after the jump for 4 videos and a photo gallery of the new Porsches.
PHOTO GALLERY: 2009 Porsche Boxster and Cayman
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Video: 2009 Porsche Boxster – Exterior Footage
Video: 2009 Porsche Boxster – Driving Footage
Video: 2009 Porsche Cayman – Exterior Footage
Video: 2009 Porsche Cayman – Driving Footage
After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
manissssssss
tail not nice.. like squid.. hahaa..
gt-r better… kakaka
ok, but then I think I saw that design somewhere before.
On another note, paul, check the Star sunday. Malaysian police to use Evo X as police chase car. 25 units of it
this is good, with 9ff treatment even better
still generally looks the same.
http://paultan.org/archives/2008/07/28/10-mitsubishi-lancer-evolution-for-the-government/
The new Direct Injection 3.4 liter engines (310hp and 320hp) and the new PDK dual-clutch gearbox (which makes it accelerate faster than the manual transmission model) is a nice addition to the updated Boxster and Cayman lineup.
pdk is good, but the shifts need some getting used to
what face life.
i dont see any..
it’s the same boring design..
perhaps.. they can do some new redesign bumper. and add some led like audi wannabe..
sack all the designers lah.. so lazy..
it its not broken dont fix it