Poor mans Porsche or a tuner car,yep the tuner wins,the trouble with the boxster is people always class a poor mans version so it will always look like someone is trying to hard and more often brought one for its badge even if they did or not,i am sure you keep asking this question in other areas and again my friends took a vote and we all voted it was girly and more people said it was a gay not what i said but my friends in there numbers and these are car fan friends.
Sorry even if you gave me the most expensive Porsche i would take the Nissan or any Nissan for that matter,and for the 350z def as it is a great car and offers great value for its price and seen my people that way also.
This is the way it is really as where i live there is a Ferrari garage and we see Lambo's etc driving by the schools as well as Porsche models daily and yet one seems to notice or more often wants to notice,yet the ultimate best moment came when a Nissan R35 GTR went by and the parents and children and the school turn there heads and said how great it was.
I usually other a technical answer between the cars but i cant when ever Porsche is inolved i just cant get by the ugly front ends which look like a frogs face,and this has been there since i was a kid.and i am car mad and should not do that but yuk.
Lol Tricky is wrong no he just does not have badge snobbery,wow a Porsche just because of its name and as for people thinking a Nissan is a poor mans car then again that is from people whom do not know cars well enough and again only know badges,myself i drive a Skyline and not for other people but for myself and that never fails to attract a crowd daily of people from young to old as well as the car being invited to garage open days and on posters on there walls so at least there are people out there whom will not knock Nissan and yet see there hertiage.And sorry the boxster as always and will always be known as the poor mans Porsche sorry to burst your badge bubble.
And i never knocked the brand just the styling is not to my taste.