It's all my wife's fault! She is a car girl and worked for Fiat motors for 10 years back when they first bought Ferrari. We both purchased Fiats and I had my Datsun 280Z. We had kids and from that moment we both had soccer mom and dad cars for 30 years. Plus I'm a musician so I always have a SUV or crossover to cart my stuff around. Wife had a Subaru WRK manual shift and she loved that car. She cried when the engine blew. We had to get a car fast, so we ended up getting her a Ford Focus manual shift and she was miserable. For her 60th birthday, I decided to get her out of that car and we went looking for cars she might like to drive.
We looked at everything and nothing really clicked with her until we saw Fiat was coming out with a new 124 Spider. We went and looked at it and put a deposit on it. However, it was taking them months to get a manual shift. We also looked at a 2010 Porsche Boxster and a 2006 Boxster, but after speaking with my sons friend, she didn't want something used or requiring lots of maintenance. We took them for test drives and she fell in love with them both. We decided to go look at the Mazda Miata and she fell in love with it so I purchased it for her.
The problem I had, I also fell in love with the Boxster during the test drive. I began to shop online and researched the heck out of all the issues and decided I could pick one up for cheap and work on it and still keep my SUV for carting my music gear. During a scan on Autotrader, I found a 2004 Boxster S Special Edition w/54k, which was very local and so I arranged to go see it and test drive it and fell in love. I may have paid a premium and spent way more than I wanted at $19k, but the car was in immaculate condition and so I had a PPI done and that was it. I love this car.
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