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| Road Test: Porsche Boxster (2005-) |
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| Roadsters |
by: Gavin Conway |
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Boxster safer since addition of standard-fit head airbags
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Porsche offers a whole raft of active intervention measures to sort you out if you find yourself driving beyond your personal limits, which isn't difficult to do in a Porsche. These include standard-fit Porsche Stability Management, which incorporates a range of brake and throttle interventions in the event of an imminent loss of control. The new Boxster has a stronger structure, too, which should perform better in a crash. The roll-over bars are also stronger, and because they've been raised while the occupants sit lower, they are an extra two inches higher.
The Boxster comes standard with six airbags. But along with the usual front and side items, Porsche is claiming a world first for roadsters with its head airbags. Basically, these behave like normal curtain airbags that would usually deploy from the car's roof structure, protecting occupant's heads from impact with the sideglass in a side-on impact, but they emerge from the tops of the window sills in the roadster Boxster.
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Introduction After its introduction in 1996, the Boxster helped a struggling Porsche back ... |
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