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Old 01-02-2014, 12:10 PM   #17
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2002-2004 C4S is the best looking water-cooled Porsche so far imho. Nice side perk is you get the Turbo curves without the cost of maintaining a Turbo.
Downside: All wheel drive. Rear end starts to slide, it cuts power, all that nimble handling you've taken for granted in Boxster goes out the window. As long as you only drive in straight lines, in weather where snow clearance in a low-sitting car isn't too bad, it's a good 12 month workhorse car.
With depreciation baked in now, a low mileage car even at ~$30K is pretty compelling Porsche proposition relative to older air-cooled Porsches: fast, low maintenance with magazine cover styling. Basically you can actually drive it on anything but sunny days and you don't care about the mileage racking up. You get your cake and eat it too.
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