Average age of boxster owners?? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

jonnycool · 04-28-2008, 08:09 PM

i can't understand how you 18-20 year olds can afford the insurance on this type of car?!?! in the UK if an 18 year old who was actually able to get insurance for it would cost him around $10000-$15000....i'm not joking, a 1000cc car would cost you $1000, our boxster cost $1000 for me and the wife and we've turned 40

Jeph · 04-28-2008, 09:11 PM

I got the Boxster at 27. I'm 30.

Hmm, I wanna play this game:
4 - Some sorta pedal powered tractor (red)
5 - Dukes of Hazzard Big Wheel
6 - Knight Rider Big Wheel
7 - Huffy Sigma (that bad boy had hubcaps!)
12 - GT Pro Performer (that's not true, but it's what I wanted -same for the Sigma too)
14 - Mongoose (gray)
16 - '89 Nissan Maxima (parent's -I was so cool with the windows down blaring "WHOOMP! THERE IT IS)
17 - '84 Ford Mustang GT Convertible (parent's)
18 - '94 Mitsubishi 3000GT (parent's -got my first date by this time -Nothing impresses more than a 3KGT and dinner @ Cracker Barrel)
20 - '89 Nissan Maxima (officially mine this time)
24 - '94 Ford Probe GT (first car I bought -still have it)
27 - +'00 Boxster (still have it)
29 - +'96 Acura TL (current daily driver)

6speed · 04-28-2008, 09:20 PM

Holy crap I had a knight rider bigwheel too !!!

NickCats · 04-29-2008, 05:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeph

24 - '94 Ford Probe GT (first car I bought -still have it)

You still have the probe

???

Nick

Jeph · 04-29-2008, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by NickCats

You still have the probe

???

I know, it's sad. I still drive it too! It keeps me busy though -I always work on it (because it breaks all the time). It's not so much a matter of keeping it running as it is keeping my mind/hands busy. It's a project to me -something to mess with when I'm bored. Believe it or not, I'm finished with any and all mods to the Boxster, so this is what I do.

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Originally Posted by YellowJacket

I can guarantee that once my wife and I pay off our house in a few years, I'll be buying another toy. May be a 911, may be a new Chris Craft, maybe an island house on Lake Winnipesauke.

Haha, Dr. Leo Marvin.
(Please tell me some one gets that reference.)

kyle986driver · 04-29-2008, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by jonnycool

i can't understand how you 18-20 year olds can afford the insurance on this type of car?!?! in the UK if an 18 year old who was actually able to get insurance for it would cost him around $10000-$15000....i'm not joking, a 1000cc car would cost you $1000, our boxster cost $1000 for me and the wife and we've turned 40

Well my insurance is even less than alot of people I know, I get an insurance discount for having a good GPA in school, as well as doing countless cost-reducing classes and videos. Plus my record is clean...

thomschoon · 04-29-2008, 05:11 PM

OFB, Old Fat & Bald, been fifty for a couple of years, no mid-life crisis just ongoing immaturity. Owned my first P-car at 21, several since, have a 986 because it was a sunny friday and it was yellow, been dying on the depreciation curve since. For fun I drive my 911, for work I use the 986, they are all just cars.

LoveBunny · 04-29-2008, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by kyle986driver

Well my insurance is even less than alot of people I know, I get an insurance discount for having a good GPA in school, as well as doing countless cost-reducing classes and videos. Plus my record is clean...

I just got my bill from my insurance company with my premium readjusted after I added my Boxster. It seems to have gone up at least $50/month. I'm 35 years old, no at-fault accidents ever, been with State Farm since I was 15, and I don't think there are any tickets still on my record at all. This is the most my insurance has gone up for any car I've ever owned. I don't think it was even this high when I had two cars before (Explorer and Lexus SUV). Guess this one's just in a higher risk class or something. I know it's worth more, but come on, not that much more!

TriGem2k · 04-29-2008, 05:48 PM

16 years old, Brand New Boxster, my insurance premium was $650/MONTH!!!!!

6.5 years later, Same Boxster, my insurance premium is $175/Month!

Talk about being raped monthly :ah:

LoveBunny · 04-29-2008, 06:07 PM

$650!!! Dang, that's steep! But now my insurance is higher than yours I think and I'm a lot older. Ridiculous. I'm sure our insurance in general is just higher here though.

gmboxster · 04-29-2008, 06:15 PM

Come on people , time to change insurance carriers. I pay roughly $250/ 6 months. Yes thats / 6 months. I do have completely clean driving record however.

LoveBunny · 04-29-2008, 06:41 PM

You pay $250 every six months?!? Did I read that correctly?

Mine is $1,370.22 every six months. That's with multiline discount, antitheft discount, vehicle safety discount, and accident-free discount.

But then I live in New Orleans where someone was mugged at 9:00 a.m. about a block from where I live by thieves driving a stolen car.

releese78 · 05-06-2008, 03:39 PM

Im 30, seems to be a lot of us "mid-lif-ers on here.

16 - 94' Isuzu pickup (black)
18 - 89' Mustang hatchback (white)
20 - 70' Beetle (lots of rust and a little blue)
21 - 89' Mustang notchback (black....then white)
26 - 99' Expedition (black)
27 - 04' Explorer (white)
28 - 06' Crown Vic (Police - black/white) ...new work car
29 - 98' Boxster (white)...VESSIR!

Damn, I didnt realize until now, I've never lived life in color!