"Gone are the days when BoxsterS were for pretenders as the Boxster S combines all the fun of a roadster with the real things - precision, poise and exhilarating power all packed in a yummylicious trademark-Porsche package. Yogendra Pratap just can?t remember when the roads around Delhi were so much fun or whether he has ever driven a better 200-odd kilometres in a car! "

When I joined OVERDRIVE more then seven years ago, little did I think that I would be driving roadsters in India. Way back then, things were very different. There were just a handful of cars you could choose from. Mercedes-Benz India, as it was called way back then, was just about the only company which one could think of would get expensive roadsters to India. And it was in the throes of a painful rebirth, being on the verge of becoming sick industry, having wiped off more than half of its net worth. So much has changed in the automotive world since then and you have not one but a handful of roadsters to choose from. This is the second one I have tested in the last few months, soon after being behind the wheel of the Mercedes-Benz SLK350.

Knowledgeable car buffs who usually talk pretty lowly of the Boxster are easy to find and I have a tough task convincing them that even the Boxster is the real thing, albeit it is the bottom rung Porsche. Well, if one wanted a Mercedes and what those cars stand for, one wouldn?t buy the A-class. But that is not what the new second generation Boxster is all about. After pottering (if one can do that in a car that has a top whack of 260kmph) about in the car I can definitely tell you that if you want a Porsche, then you can definitely go in for the Boxster S because it embodies all that Porsche stands for. If you do not want to take my ?word? for it then go ahead and read the whole road test, because as far as roadsters go, there isn?t much better that you can get, some of the other Germans notwithstanding.