Ol' Shatterhand Posted January 17, 2023 Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 And now for something completely different! Have you ever seen the Boxster on the big screen or on TV shows (I don't mean car shows like Top Gear and Wheeler Dealers, though it is arguable that these too fall under the fiction category). Was it used to reinforce familiar owner stereotypes? I just happened to catch Legally Blonde on TV tonight. If you'd asked me 20 years ago I would have just shaken my head and muttered something obscene, but this time round I just found it to be a harmless bit of fluff, and not without charm either. I must be getting old... Anyway, the 986 in the film looks very good indeed. I think it's Ocean blue, which shows up very well in California sunlight. Not exactly a girly colour. And for a 2.7 it doesn't look half sleek... A red example makes a brief appearance as a stripper's car in Blues Brothers 2000. Not all owners were hairdressers it seems. And it is one of the 50 'ladies' on the blackboard list in Gone In 60 Seconds. People forget it was a hot car when new, highly sought after and popular. They did make 165,000 of them, after all. Any other examples you can think of? Inevitably most of its appearances will date back to the late 90s and early 2000s when the car was still current, but there is a more recent appearance in 21 Jump Street: it's a pre-facelift model and they make a joke about it not having a glove box in which the undercover cops who requisition it during a chase could hope to find a gun. Over to you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daboy3000 Posted January 17, 2023 Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 (edited) I have one which I found out recently when looking into my cars history. https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Porsche_Boxster James bond - Tomorrow never dies. Edited January 17, 2023 by Daboy3000 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bike Loon Posted January 17, 2023 Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 One was in one Mission Impossible 2 films too Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) - Watch the Road Scene (1/9) | Movieclips - Bing video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
½cwt Posted January 17, 2023 Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 IIRC one (in silver) appears in Line of Duty (or something similar) and is seen briefly in 2 episodes in a dark moody London street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menoporsche Posted January 17, 2023 Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 8 hours ago, Ol' Shatterhand said: I just happened to catch Legally Blonde on TV tonight. If you'd asked me 20 years ago I would have just shaken my head and muttered something obscene, but this time round I just found it to be a harmless bit of fluff, and not without charm either. Agree. The car isn't bad either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brillomaster Posted January 17, 2023 Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 you need imcdb.org... 13 pages of 986 boxsters in films and tv shows... https://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?resultsStyle=asImages&sortBy=4&yearFrom=&yearTo=2004&makeMatch=2&make=Porsche&modelMatch=1&model=boxster&modelInclModel=on&modelInclChassis=on&mk=&origin=&madein=&madefor=&role= 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullandbiscuits Posted January 17, 2023 Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 Midsomer murders must have had one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daboy3000 Posted January 17, 2023 Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Bike Loon said: One was in one Mission Impossible 2 films too Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) - Watch the Road Scene (1/9) | Movieclips - Bing video 911 I'm afraid, if you go to 0:42 you can see the back, you can also see the rear seats in a few shots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bike Loon Posted January 17, 2023 Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 1/2 right then 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
½cwt Posted January 17, 2023 Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 1 hour ago, ½cwt said: IIRC one (in silver) appears in Line of Duty (or something similar) and is seen briefly in 2 episodes in a dark moody London street. 1 hour ago, brillomaster said: you need imcdb.org... 13 pages of 986 boxsters in films and tv shows... https://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?resultsStyle=asImages&sortBy=4&yearFrom=&yearTo=2004&makeMatch=2&make=Porsche&modelMatch=1&model=boxster&modelInclModel=on&modelInclChassis=on&mk=&origin=&madein=&madefor=&role= Thanks for this @brillomaster. Having checked, it was Elementary that I recalled it from. (Binged that, Line of Duty among others in the lock downs...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonogt6 Posted January 19, 2023 Report Share Posted January 19, 2023 On 1/17/2023 at 9:08 AM, brillomaster said: you need imcdb.org... 13 pages of 986 boxsters in films and tv shows... https://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?resultsStyle=asImages&sortBy=4&yearFrom=&yearTo=2004&makeMatch=2&make=Porsche&modelMatch=1&model=boxster&modelInclModel=on&modelInclChassis=on&mk=&origin=&madein=&madefor=&role= Definitely the definitive list 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the baron Posted January 26, 2023 Report Share Posted January 26, 2023 In The Company Man Ben Affleck drives a Boxster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eob Posted January 27, 2023 Report Share Posted January 27, 2023 Not a 986, but I started watching Happy Valley and spotted a crashed 987 Looks to be KE05 BNA. Still on the road and daily driven going by the 111k miles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eob Posted January 27, 2023 Report Share Posted January 27, 2023 (edited) 4 minutes ago, eob said: Not a 986, but I started watching Happy Valley and spotted a crashed 987 Looks to be KE05 BNA. Still on the road and daily driven going by the 111k miles. https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_703898-Porsche-Boxster-987-2005.html Ha. It's in that IMCDB already. Edited January 27, 2023 by eob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon61 Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 How about an obscure one ... E.R. Season 3 Episode 18 (1996-97) : Jerry the receptionist, who is always doing other things while he should be working - often involving some Get Rich Quick scheme - is looking at a magazine while on the phone to someone saying "I'm talking 200 horses ... zero to sixty in 6.1 seconds ... yeah, I'll let you drive it". The magazine illustration is clearly the cutaway drawing of the 986 that was used in all the 986.1 publicity material, brochure etc (It turned out that Jerry was masquerading as a doctor and trying to sell his sperm to a sperm bank ) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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