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Originally Posted by Neal
I am actually located in Canada at the moment but will be coming to the states soon depending on where I get placement for my clinical rotations after writing my step 1 exam. Now I guess I can fly to the place I would buy the car and then drive it or have it delivered to where I get placed. In this circumstance where would you look for a good & cheapest prices for 2009+ model porsche boxster?
The one's that are on "autolist.com" with less then 60k miles on them are around $25,000 USD.
Thanks & I hope one day I can return to this first thread of mine and quote you saying I got one someday  |
Based on the advice of ttmed, you might want to wait until you've taken / passed your test and are then assigned a spot in the US before you buy. Something else to consider if you plan to move back to Canada with a US spec car are the requirements to get the US car into Canada full time. It can be done but my understanding is it's not as easy as driving across the border. Our Canadian members can speak to that.
So back to your question on where to buy. In general, you want to look where there's the most competition so the prices are lower. Cities like LA, SF, Houston, Miami, Dallas, and Orlando seem to have lot of Porsches for sale. Look at their Craigslists for ads. Maybe you'll be assigned somewhere relatively close to one of these cities. Also look at AutoTrader (I like them better than Cars.com b/c Cars used to have lots of fake ads, this may not be true anymore). A fake ad will have a car for an unusually ultra low price and when you contact the "owner" they'll have some story about them moving overseas, yahdah, yahdah. They want to feed on your greed of getting a great deal and you have to move fast to beat everyone else, so good judgement goes out the window. Avoid anyone who wants you to use Western Union or PayPal to pay for an entire car. Also avoid rebuilt or salvage titles. You don't need that headache.
Since you're thinking about the 987.2 model (2009-2012), you are at a bit of a disadvantage - they have the desirable non-IMS engine + Porsche built vastly fewer 987.2 cars because of the 2008 market crash. So you have a highly desirable item in vastly smaller numbers, resulting in those 987.2 cars holding their value and selling quickly when one comes up for sale. If and when you're ready to buy one, be prepared to move quickly when you find one that meets your needs. You might want to start looking now just to educate yourself on what to look for, what dictates price (miles, options, color, etc), and what's a good or bad deal. Then when you're ready to buy, you'll be able to make good, quick decisions.
You sounded a bit shocked on the prices of 987.2s. If that's a bit out of your budget, may I suggest the 987.1 (2005-2008). They have the 3rd gen IMS which fails at approx. 1% rate. There are also differences in interior (987.2 is more modern in music abilities) and automatic transmissions (987.2 has PDK vs 987.1 tiptronic), but there are many more 987.1s on the market so their price is lower. You should be able to find a nice 2006 base Boxster for around $16K. Something to consider.
JFP - would you mind cutting your pics down to 1 or none? You've made your point and this thread is hard to read because of the pics. Thx.