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Originally Posted by Giller
... and most importantly - they only made around what, 100,000 914 whereas the Boxster has been produced in the 100s of thousands and still going.
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Well, you may be interested in these North America sales figures from Wikipedia ...
2003
911 9,935
Boxster 6,432
Cayenne 13,661
2004
911 10,227
Boxster 3,728
Cayenne 19,134
2005
911 10,653
Boxster 8,327
Cayenne 14, 524
Don't care much about Cayennes, but still today Porsche continues to sell more 911s than Cayman/Boxster combined.
Bottom line is I wouldn't reference the "large quantities" of Boxsters so loudly.
But, given that the 911 has outsold the Boxster, the more popular model may indeed hold its value better in the long run.
Nobody in the real world calls the Boxster a hairdressers' car and in fact it's without question a really real Porsche. Sharing components with the 911 is better than sharing a whole platform or an engine with a VW/Audi I think.
I'd easily wager Boxsters will hold more value than an SLK Mercedes or a BMW Z, as it's the Porsche experience and feel that neither of those has. Neither of those has anything like the charisma, and of course anything Oriental is a writeoff and hardly worth mentioning. As I write this, qualityporscheparts on eBay has a 2004 4.5 l Turbo Cayman V8 and a 2000 Boxster S engine, both with over 100K miles and both priced at $3K.
Yes, lots of Boxsters will likely go away due to "expensive parts," but this is false economy IMHO. It's an expensive, low volume car, and from Germany where nothing's cheap ... and the pricing seems fairly realistic given the real world economic facts. How can you realistically expect anything different? Parts prices have zero relationship to used car lot prices in any event ... but lots of guys with stars in their eyes may think so.
And hey, they have six cylinders and you can't get that anymore.