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Originally Posted by Steve Tinker
err - yes and maybe... Boxster owners are different from early 911 owners.
I would guess that Porsche ownership today is more affordable than what it was in the 1960's and 1970's - which brings back the point that Boxsters (and to a lesser extent 924/944/968) owners are not as savvy as early 911 buyers, because Porsche are aiming the Boxster product at a different market.
Early cars had no power steering, no cooling worth mentioning, all manual gears, no brake booster etc etc. Could you get your wife into one - at more money than a Mercedese or a Caddi?? Would she buy one??
In the US, how many weeks pay would it have cost in 1965 to buy a 911S, E or T? Even the 912 was not a "cheap" option either. I think you would have had to have been a pretty commited enthusiast to buy any of them!
A lot more committed than todays Boxster buyer I would venture.
Though I fully agree about the superhighway......
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Cars today are a higher % of the US average annual salary than they ever have been. If anything, they're more precious than ever. The big difference is financing allowing more people to own expensive cars.
Porsches were more rudimentary in the past than they are today (which I actually prefer the old cars), but so were all sports cars. Have you ever been in a mid-70s Corvette? The 924 was a luxury boat by comparison. I still contend that the market segment that bought Porsches in the past are still the same that buy them today. You can't look just at 911s, someone who bought a Boxster today is probably more likely to have bought a 944 than a 911 back in the day.