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Buy a Boxster S.
This is a car that should have cost the public $80,000. At least that's what the engineers and designers were told after they presented their plans. By farming out the assembly of the car to Finland and Austria(I believe) and implementing new assembly line procedures from Japanese efficiency experts they were able to dramatically lower the cost.
A second hand Boxster S is allot of punch for the buck. Both in performance and reliability. Try to buy as new a boxster S as you can with as low mileage as possible. I found a 2000 S with only 10,000 miles and jumped on it. Best decision I ever made. This car has exceeded all expectations.

IMHO There's something extra that Porsche has that BMW and Mercs just don't have.