Its a wonderfull thing walking into a Porsche garage, if you've ever got a spair couple of hours-just walk in and walk around-take a seat in one; its fun-if your a sad man like me;-)  I don't know where to start really-they say that Porsche designers are the laziest car designers in the world.  Looking at the Boxster, particularly the Mark2-the one I have-you can trace the lines back to the 550 Spyder (the one that got the better of James Dean), but if you look at the 550 Spyder you wonder why they hadn't done it before.
I think the days of old where you used to see yuppys driving round in their Porsches down the King's Road or Fleet Street with their whacking great brick mobile phones are over.  Ostentatiousness has become the byword for Ferrari drivers, Pagani Zonda drivers and even those TVR drivers etc.........whilst in this time Porsche has become more refined-more subtle, your more likely to blend into the crowd in a Porsche these days-its become what Mercedes was for the executive car sector ten years ago-a mark of subtle quality over the riff-raff BMW-Ferrari drivers trying to show off their wealth and lack of taste.
Enough pontificating about the brand-the car is solid, I drove the BMW Z4 and felt it was in a car made out of tin foil-the Boxster feels solid but agile, you know you could take a bump in it but at the same time you feel you got the power and the agility to get out of a situation.  The engine develops 245bhp from a 2.7 liter engine which gives it enough power but not excessive amounts and even then you got double the Bhp of any Golf Gti.  After 50years of making rear wheeled sports cars Porsche engineers know how to solve handeling problems, this just handels like a dream.