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Chick car or not, I test drove the 987 a couple of years ago and it was a fabulous drivers car. It feels like your the center of the car and can feel where the edges are when you rotate around the corners.
I also test drove a colleagues C6 corvette at a SCCA event and it was faster at everything, but the car feels large and cheap, and not as fun tucking around corners at sane speeds.
IMO get what you want, and who cares if it's thought of a chick car or hairdressers car.
Back in college, I drove an old $8000 Range Rover Classic used for 4-wheeling (once got it stuck between 2 trees) and a $4000 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce. That was a chicks car....a chick magnet's car.
The Miata- well if a car that can hand a corvette it's ass on a road course is a girls car, then so be it.
Depends on the course, Miatas do very well in tight twisty courses like autocross, Vettes do better where their horsepower can be unleashed. Depending on the mods on the car i'd normally put my money on the Vette on a road course and the Miata on a tight twisty course.
There are certain cars that are girls cars. Yes some of them are extremely capable machines but none the less they have become girls cars. Some of it has to do with styling but a lot of it has to do with how the car is marketed. A lot of manufactures "sell" their cars to specific markets.
The Boxster was never intended as a girls car but the tiny size and relatively cheap asking price put them in the hands of middle aged women everywhere. While the Vette is a guy midlife crisis car the Boxster is a womans..
Other cars like the early Miata and the New Beetle were marketed to women. The Miata is a great handling car if a bit under powered and tiny and every teenage girl for 100 miles around here has one. Funny story. A buddy bought a later Miata, joined the local club and went to a meet. Of the 50ish cars that showed up he was one of 4 guys.
Then you have cars like the Forester. Fantastic car but it has become the quintessential soccer mobile for women that don't want an SUV.
By the way, these were a fgew of my Beetles, al lof them could be considered "chick cars" by small minded men, but they were great for meeting women in. lol!
Considering the steering effort, clutch effort and overall driver experience the Boxster is a more serious car than 95% of what is out there. One day the Koreans and Chinese may be able to build a car this good. They can dream!
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