Thinking of buying a Porsche Boxster and haven't a clue.

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FWIW that sounds like a great price to me. I bought an 01 recently. Similar to you, comparing NC Miatas, happened to see a Boxster for sale and my wife told me to buy one of those instead of a Miata - who am I to argue with her?

I am mechanically enough inclined that nothing scares me with it. Parts are reasonably priced (though I had an Infiniti FX before the Boxster and race a 944 so I may be somewhat off kilter ...).

I have no regrets with the Boxster - even with the potential for known expensive problems. Anything can fail in any car. Sounds like with the records you're off to a good start. If you need to take to a shop it's very expensive. I looked at one that had the 60k service done at the dealer for about $3k. I calculated cost to do it myself at less than $1k.

Do read the sticky above - well worth it. Poke around here, much knowledge. Several Facebook groups with smart folks as well.

Most of all, what Ciao said - don't overthink it. In the end, it's just a car!