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I don't think it is so much that a Porsche is unreliable as it is that Porsche owners tend to be (relatively) meticulous about the condition of their car.
If you tend to like to drive your car until the wheels fall off, then you can probably do the same thing with a Boxster and not experience undue maintenance costs.
Most Porsche owners wouldn't think of taking their car to a Jiffy Lube to get the oil changed, so instead of paying maybe $50 for an oil change, they pay $200 at a Porsche specialist garage. What you get for the additional $150 is a warm and fuzzy that whoever worked on your car knew what he was doing, and you aren't likely to end up with the sump bolt stripped out because the stoner at Jiffy had his impact wrench turned up too high.
Before my current '99 Boxster, I had an '81 911 Targa. I had all the maintenance records for the car since 1985. When I sold the car in March of '04, the total spent on maintenance for the car since '85 was about $25,000. A large part of that cost was what I would call "discretionary" maintenance. It could have been delayed or maybe even not done at all, but the owner(s) of the car did what was right to keep the car in top shape.
I have owned my Boxster for about 9 months and have spent about $1200 on maintenance (30K maint., plus one 18" tire), and it needs another $800 part (one of those "discretionary" type things) to put it in perfect condition. It is right on track to have about $25k spent on it in the next 20yrs.
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