The Old(986) and the New(718)

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The 718 is a wayyyyyyyyyyy better value today than the 986 was back in 2002.

And the 718 is a wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better value today than the Carrera was in the in the 90's when money was actually expensive and interest rates were steep.

The 718 has a funny sounding exhaust, Walter Rohrl thought they were pranking him when he first tested it, but it's really a culmination of the whole water-cooled Boxster/"street" Carrera (non-Metzger/non-raced 911) engineering exercise. The car is fast, not just for a Boxster but for any Porsche ever made... without a picnic table on the back hood.

Once depreciation kicks in hard, especially if the economy slows while interest rates remain low, these cars in the second hand market will be an tremendous bargain when compared to a new, right off the boat 718. THe performance ante has just gone up so high. As far as reliability, that remains to be seen but the whole move to VW-esque 4 bangers was to make them less problematic while making more power, so in theory once the engine is higher up in mileage, they should also be more reliable than the old flat 6 cars making all their power from NA only when their odometers went north of 50K miles and things like lifter issues were starting to creep in.