What is your next car up from a Boxster?

[Gougoushu]

Originally Posted by RandallNeighbour

Cayman S is my next sports car for all the obvious reasons. I've yet to drive one though—mostly because I know I will want one and I cannot have one.

I just can't fathom selling my sorted-out 97 for a 1/3 of what I've put into it to get it sorted. This alone will probably keep me out of a Cayman S.

I have a deal to pick up a base Cayman tomorrow, which I knew would be my next car up. Hoping the deal goes as planned, and will soon have a Boxster for sale; if so, I'm gonna miss the top-down runs that have brought so much happiness.

Randall, when I read of your experience of buying the cheapest Boxster available (which is what I did too), only to find it was actually very expensive (I was luckier that way), I remember a song I once heard on the radio years ago, "Thousand Dollar Car."

So I just looked up the song. By the Bottle Rockets, it has some great lines. "$1000 car's life was through/'bought 50,000 miles 'fore it got to you...
Sink your money in it, and there you are/the owner of a 2,000 dollar 1,000 dollar car...If a $1000 car was truly worth a damn/then why would anybody ever spend ten grand." Classic... hope it doesn't apply to this Cayman.