[Immortal1520]

I'm probably one of the younger fellas on this forum at 22, but I think it's all based on how your teenager drives and how willing you are to pay a ridiculous amount for insurance. I have a cousin who drives a Nissan 350z and he drives that thing like a maniac. That doesn't mean everyone drives like that though, when I was a teenager, I didn't drive anywhere near as crazy as that. Pending your teenager has a good sense of responsibility and has enough of a brain to not go and drive it like a maniac, I say go for it if you feel like you want to make that his first car.

At the same time, he's also a teenager. If his peers notice that he's driving a Porsche, they're going to go crazy. I had a friend who got an RX-8 as his first car in 2004, and his car got keyed within a week of parking it. There's enough people that are going to get jealous and talk smack on him for having a car like that. In other words, he might get a little too much attention than he can handle from a car like that at his age.

If I was you, I wouldn't even considering giving a teenager a Boxster like that. Something like a Boxster costs far too much to give to a new driver. And we might be getting a little too off-topic, but I had to work for quite a while to save up for my Boxster. Knowing that I worked really hard to get a car like this makes it that much better for me. So being handed a car like that as my first at that age would totally ruin my sense of entitlement and would more likely make turn me into a spoiled d-bag for the rest of my life. There's way too many people like that around where I live. But, that's just me.