LAS VEGAS — From its mid-engine layout to its superb suspension tuning, the 2000 Porsche Boxster was a poster child for balance and restraint, and is possibly the unlikeliest donor car for an exercise in excess. Flash forward to its descendant, the Boxster F5 986 GTS, which is loaded to the gills with performance, audio-visual and gaming mods to satisfy the most obsessive gear-heads and geeks. Dyno'd at 400 hp and clocked with a zero-to-60 time of 3.9 seconds, this garishly decorated, scissor-doored monstrosity features an isobaric 8000-watt Sony stereo. An in-car computing system is equipped with a ProTools and Adobe Premiere for, you know, mixing music and editing video at 179 mph.

Copious LCD screens and mood lighting set the stage for any number of onboard electronic experiences, and if you want to get your gaming on, there's an Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 hooked up to a flat screen on the underside of the hood. We enjoyed playing a round of the new Need For Speed ProStreet while standing at the nose of the Boxster, but would have preferred actually driving the thing. —Basem Wasef

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