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Originally Posted by 987wannabe
hello all,
so i'm thinking about taking the plunge and getting a boxster. the baby under question is a 2008 "demo" boxster base. msrp is $55k but the car is on sale for $39k.
at first i thought "demo" meant it was a test driven car or something, but there was only 11 miles (13 miles after my test drive  ) on it. the dealership told me it's a demo car because the dealership "bought" it so that it can be listed as a sale for porsche... or something to that extent.
i would be listed as the car's first owner, but the warranty would be backdated to when the dealership bought it (december 2008).
anybody have any opinions/ideas/suggestions on getting a demo car?
hope to soon join all you boxster owners (= thanks. |
Sounds like they "punched" the car back in December, to artificially inflate Porsche's sales numbers, and set the clock ticking on the warrantee. This allows them to sell the car for a bit less, but the eventual owner winds up with a car that has less original warrantee time to work with.
Tell them to CPO the car, which extends the warrantee even further for that price, or drop off another $1k to $2k since it is technically a used car now, and they are probably looking for a sale.
That, or try to wing a deal on a 2009 with the IMS-less engines, and several extra ponies.
BC.