[RandallNeighbour]

So much of this conversation has to do with where you live, or where you are forced to live due to work or family or whatever.

I live in flat, hot, humid, Houston, Texas. It's just about the worst place in the world to be located as a drop top mid engine Porsche owner.

It's too hot to enjoy the top down 8 months out of the year. The 'winters' here are wet and cool and not much fun for it either. By my calendar, I get about 14-21 days of good top down driving weather every year here.

Then there's the lack of twisty roads. Short of paying for track time 4-6 times a year with the PCA, the mid engine location in the boxster is wasted.

I love the lines of my car, but I do a lot of straight line driving and highway cruising with the top up.

For me, a 911 or a Corvette would be the sports car to own, depending on how much cash I had to spend. I'm not selling my boxster any time soon because it's paid for, but should it get totaled, I'll be buying one of these instead.

I enjoy straight line performance... mostly because I have no twisty roads to drive unless I want to make 3+ hour journey to find them. This is why I made my DD a BMW 550i.

Of course, when I retire in 15 years and coerce my wife into selling our inner city home and moving to Robbinsville...