Changed By: JackintheBoxster Change Date: November 04, 2016 11:53AM 718, the sound and the fury...
There seems to be a consensus among reviewers, thankfully including the relatively few written by reporters who can put a sentence together and are not just copying from what is already out there, that the 718 is a remarkably good car, better than the competition, other than the sound. The latest I've seen is this one, comparing it to the Jaguar F-Type (really? you guys think this is the modernized E-Type? I'd rather go for the new Fiata): https://www.yahoo.com/news/versus-pitting-718-boxster-against-024142338.html. I particularly like this one's statement that the 718's "flat-six aria vocal cords have been snipped in favor of a flatulent turbocharged flat four."
Really, sound? That's the problem? Seems to me that German ingenuity that has built a number of topline cars, produced some of the world's great literature and (somewhat unsuccessfully) marched across Europe twice in the last hundred years can deal with this problem. Maybe they should bring in some consultants from Harley Davidson.
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Author: JackintheBoxster Date: November 04, 2016 11:47AM 718, the sound and the fury...
There seems to be a consensus among reviewers, thankfully including the relatively few written by reporters who can put a sentence together and are not just copying from what is already out there, that the 718 is a remarkably good car, better than the competition, other than the sound. The latest I've seen is this one, comparing it to the Jaguar F-Type (really? you guys think this is the moderized E-Type? I'd rather go for the new Fiata): https://www.yahoo.com/news/versus-pitting-718-boxster-against-024142338.html. I particularly like this one's statement that the 718's "flat-six aria vocal cords have been snipped in favor of a flatulent turbocharged flat four."
Really, sound? That's the problem? Seems to me that German ingenuity that has built a number of topline cars, produced some of the world's great literature and (somewhat unsuccessfully) marched across Europe twice in the last hundred years can deal with this problem. Maybe they should bring in some consultants from Harley Davidson.