Average age of boxster owners??

[Lil bastard]

OK - I probably fit the profile - Gray, 50+, etc. When I drive down the street in my Boxster, I guess many think I'm mid-life crisising. But...

At 17, I owned a '66 289 Mustang Fastback as my DD, and a '62 Austin Healey 'Bug Eye' Sprite as my 'Fun' car.

At 20, I owned a '68 Camaro SS396 as my DD, and a '68 912 and a '68 Buick Gran Sport Stage I as my 'Fun' cars.

At 22, I owned a '68 Lincoln Continental Convertible as my DD, and a '63 E-Type and a '72 Dodge Charger SE R/T 440 Six Pack as my 'Fun' cars.

At 25, I owned a '72 BMW 320 I as my DD, and a '69 Lotus Elan SE as my 'Fun' car.

At 27, I owned an '80 Jaguar XJ-6 as my DD, and a '70 Datsun 240Z and a '70 Lotus Europa SE John Player Special as my 'Fun' cars.

At 30, I owned a BMW 636 CSI as my DD, and a '71 Ferrari Dino 246GTS and an '80 Porsche 930 Turbo as my 'Fun' cars.

At 35, I owned a Volvo 740I as my DD and an '85 Lotus Turbo Esprit and '83 Porsche 911SC as my 'Fun' cars. In addition, I acquired a '90 Euroswift Formula Ford for Racing.

At 38, I owned a '92 Corvette ZR1 as my DD, and a Ferrari 308GTS Quattrovalvole as my 'Fun' car.

At 40, I owned a '92 Lexus SC400 as my DD, and a '56 Austin Healey BN2 100M as my 'Fun' car.

At 45, I owned a '99 Mercedes Benz CLK 430 as my DD, and a '79 Maserati Bora as my 'Fun' Car which was replaced mid-year with my '99 Porsche Boxster. Sold the Formula Ford and bought a '90 Protoform Formula VEE racer.

Now, at 54, I own an '06 Jaguar S-Type Sport 4.0 as my DD, plus my '99 Boxster and Formula VEE as my 'Fun' cars.

So while people may see me drive by in my Boxster and type-cast me as a mid-life crisis, they have absolutely no idea how totally WRONG they are.

That's OK with me. I have always owned the cars I loved with no regard to what others may think...

PS - This probably belongs in the What cars have you owned thread, but I list it here to make a point.

[Frodo]

Just can't make up your mind WHAT to drive, can ya Lil Bastard?

...it's no wonder you've figured out a thing or two about cars!

[Lil bastard]

Originally Posted by Frodo

Just can't make up your mind WHAT to drive, can ya Lil Bastard?

...it's no wonder you've figured out a thing or two about cars!

That's just it - So many cars... So little time...

[RandallNeighbour]

When I was a much younger man (let's make that a span from 8 years old to my early 20's) I wondered why the only people I saw driving Porsches were old farts... and they were driving them sloooooly too. Made absolutely no sense to me. But that was a function of my young years. I'm 46, working hard to lose weight, balding and turning gray, by the way.

I'm betting that the profile of a Porsche owner in the US is a middle aged male, even though young college grads are driving nice cars and even high schoolers are buying older boxsters or having them bought for them by their parents.

The Boxster is not practical for hauling a family around, so people whose kids are gone are going to be the natural target market for the car.

Insurance on my old boxster, worth less than $15k is as high as my Lexus LS400 here in Houston. Younger people, especially unmarried males under 25, get hammered on insurance in the Houston area. That's another reason owners are older persons.

Men pine for a sports car their whole lives. Women, not so much.

Maintenance ain't cheap either on Porsches of any variety, and that takes disposable income after the purchase and insurance is paid up for the year... that takes out another batch of young drivers who are paying off school debt, saving for their first home, saving for college for their kids, etc.

I've written this before, but when I was a kid my mom used to say "there's a man in a midlife crisis" whenever she saw 50 year old guy driving a Harley or a Porsche.

And that's why at a very early age I prayed to God, asking him, "Please let me have my midlife crisis sooner than later, and God, let it last a long time."

BTW, while some old guys do have midlife crises and buy expensive sports cars, I firmly believe the members of this forum bought a boxster because they saw it in 1997 and though, "I gotta own one of those!" just like I did.

[jmatta]

My son (seventeen) drove the S today at Chicago PCA's autocross school and did a really nice job. I may have created a monster...he'll be eighteen later this year and eligible to start track driving.

[eqs]

I'm older than LoveBunny and younger than 70Sixer and loving life and the Pcar.
Quick, it's a trick question, how old am I?

Cheers

[mchi5]

hey LoveBunny, what kind of rims do you have on your boxster? it looks really nice (the ones in your sig).

[kyle986driver]

Im 18..and I guess i live up to the stereotype of moding my car in anyway I can..seats,exhaust, intake, shifter, paint this, paint that, fix this, fix that, stereo, speakers, yada yada yada

[eqs]

Yep bmx672 and Super66, my sentiments too. Enjoy the Pcar now while you can still shift gears and enjoy the flat 6 like Dr P designed.

Cheers

[porscheracer01]

I totaly agree with you..Boxster midlife crises?!? no way

Here is my list and growing..

26 97 Boxster
28 00 996 CAB
31 01 996 TT
32 89 Targa ****************ack car
35 00 Boxster S Ruf
Present - Ferrari 348 TS
future ??

[OldBlevins]

I'm 56 and, as you can see, am not overweight. This is my first Boxster. First Porsche. First Really Nice Car.

My thinking is, if a person is really lucky, he (or she) will live to be old and drive a Porsche.