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Old 12-28-2011, 11:15 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Mike_Yi View Post
I've gotten to the point where I have nothing but regret about buying a Boxster. I bought my car for $15,500 and have, in 3 years, put over $10,000 into it. It now needs another $3500. It was a mistake buying this car. I've only had one car that I regretted buying more than this one, and it was a '91 Mitsubishi Eclipse. It was a beater, and I had to keep putting money into it to keep it running. Nowhere near the kind of money that goes into the Boxster though.
That's about $300 a month, a little high but not excessively so, I bought mine knowing I should put at least $200/mo aside for repairs and maintenance based on information on Porsche forums. These are exotic sports cars made by a company that only makes sports cars (until recently). You didn't buy a Ford or Toyota, Porsches will cost more to maintain.

Anyone that buys a Porsche and doesn't assume they'll spend at least $200/mo on repairs and maintenance is buying the wrong car and didn't do their research. It's the buyers fault, not the car. If you get lucky and don't need all $2400/yr then buy a new used boxster in 5 yrs with the money saved as a deposit
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