[papasmurf]

always has been one of my favorite cars from that time period. If you do your own work you can live with one but it will take alot of work to get most of them sorted out. As far as the new "baby boxster" I hope it comes to market. Those complaining about brand dilution are buying porsches for the wrong reasons it seems in the first place. Yeah...exclusivity is nice but I have always appreciated the unorthodox way porsche has gone about building their cars (flat engines, air cooling, rear/mid engined, evolutionary styling, etc) more than anything. The new car will not sell at the same price point as a miata....expect it to be 8-10k above the price of a miata (mid 30's at least). Porsche would like to steal some of the miata's market share but they are not going to price their car's identically, the brand name alone will cause some people to stretch their budget more to purchase the porsche if it is a solid car. BMW has been producing relatively affordable cars for years (2002...3 series) so there is no reason porsche cannot do it as well. I do not think the appeal of the BMW brand has lessened that much and if anything it brings new people into the fold that eventually upgrade to larger and more expensive models.