When Porsche made an 'affordable' Boxster with the same headlights as a top-of-the-line 911 the snobs that wanted their 911s to be exclusive were upset.
I think people were more likely (or should have been, IMO) upset about the ugliness of the 996-[1] "fried egg" headlights, not that they were the same as the headlights on the first-gen Boxster.
[1] - 996 was the internal model designation for that generation of 911, which was being designed at the same time as the original 986 series Boxster.
