Henry Catchpole recalls his drive of the 987.2 Boxster S, and the 150mph Cayenne autobahn run that came with it...
Back in early 2009 Porsche offered. The car was in Germany, but I had a cunning plan. There was a good bit of road going up a hill just outside Salzburg with Porsche history attached. In 1958 an ancestor of the Boxster – an original 718 with RS in its name – had won the Gaisberg Hill Climb with Wolfgang ‘Taffy’ von Trips at the wheel. And I thought it would be nifty to follow in its wheel tracks.
Anyway, we convinced a grumpy man to let us pay him money to sleep in an otherwise deserted chalet, woke up to bright blue skies over crisp white snow and spent an idyllic day driving around and taking photographs. The hill climb was beautiful, the Boxster S handled sublimely and, reading the article again today, I didn’t even gripe too much about the appearance of a PDK ’box in the Boxster .
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