The new 718 Boxster. For the sport of it.
The rumors were mostly true Porsche had already confirmed that the Boxster and Caymans would receive a "718" appended to their badges, in honor of their famous mid-engined racecar of the 1950s and '60s, but the mechanical details were left up in the air We were almost certain both would be powered by turbocharged flat-fours of a couple of displacements and outputs, and now we can confirm that this is the case The biggest news concerns the flat-fours The regular 718 Boxster will get a 2-liter, turbocharged flat-four producing 300 hp The 718 Boxster S will get an extra half-liter of displacement and a variable-geometry turbocharger to produce a total of 350 hp This represents a 35 hp gain over the current Boxster and Boxster S, respectively Porsche also claims the turbo fours improve fuel economy by around 13 percent By the NEDC European test cycle, the 2-liter gets roughly 34 mpg and the 2.5 gets 32 mpg, although rest assured that EPA test results will yield different numbers than the optimistic tests of EU
