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.....if I am harsh.

But it’s a freaking expensive and exotic German sports car.

Just because it has depreciated and is twenty years old and kids are buying them for $5,999, doesn’t change the fact that it’s a highly strung thoroughbred that requires proper maintenance.

If you can’t afford the care and feeding, then you should not buy the machine.

Would you search for cheap oil for your Lear Jet because it’s twenty years old?

These things are more expensive to maintain than a Honda S2000.

We need to hit people between the eyes with a 2x4 and save them from themselves.

How many heartbreak stories do we have to endure, year after year after year, from these new people buying these cars because they are cheap and trying to get by on the cheap, and end up losing thousands of dollars due to their poor decisions and leave the world with more old, used up Boxsters and more horror stories that scare people away from the joys of Porsche ownership?

I will always sound harsh on this forum as this format has no tone.

But better we educate folks about the realities of owning these machines than continue to perpetuate this fantasy that you can buy a Boxster and keep her running for pennies on the dollar.

That is a fallacy that will only end in heartbreak and broken transmissions and another abandoned mid-engined beauty in the crusher instead of providing a great driving experience to a future generation.

Now, pardon me as I sign off and go for a drive.

Cheers.