Why did you buy - your - Boxster?

[jonnycool]

honestly? a guys son bought it for $46000, drove it for 18 months then had job offer with mizuna in the states, he parked the boxster in his dads heated gym. 20 months later he gets a promotion so rings his dad and tells him to sell the boxster and whatever money he gets put it towards his DADS retirment fund.

his dad starts the car to find water coming from underneath, turns off car and leaves it for another 2 months, he asks me if i want to buy it for $16000,( he knew that i'm into cars) I dont know how bad the problem is so i take a chance and offer $13000, we settle on $14000, i get the car home and discover the left hand radiator has small corrosion hole in the corner where road salt and debris has collected.

After $230 (new rad) and 3 hours (fitting) my wife now has a virtually mint 1997 2.5 69.000 mile boxster, the son has a great job and the dad has a great nest egg, winners alround!!!!

i bought the boxster 1 year ago this month

[jonnycool]

ps, when i bought it the average 1997 boxster prices in the UK were between $22000 - $28000 i did'nt sell it because the guy gave me that "i want it to go to a good home" line, well i'm glad i listened to him...it's a keeper!!!

[BoxsterLewis]

So thats like 4-5 of us already being had no intentions at all of buying a Porsche and now are living the dream :dance:

[concept84]

For me I hope I have found the right car. I've spent the last 2-3 years looking for my the perfect sports car and have had many, and every one of them came up short. They were always fun for a month, and then something just wasn't right and I'd get rid of them.

For example, I had an S2000 for a grand total of about 10 days.

I went through car after car after car, until my girlfriend went crazy and told me to stop. She was now in on the buying process and I ended up trading my S4 in for a new A3, because it was both fun and practical, and she could drive it because it was the DSG tranny (clutchless manual, flappy-paddle gear box).

This lasted nine months until the first nice day when all the convertibles came out. I started looking immediately. I made my rounds and drove everything I had previously owned (Z4, S2000, MR2 and nothing really fit the bill. Then I figured I'd give Porsche another try and wow!

This is the car for me!

Funny part of all this is 3 years ago the first car I looked at when starting this whole car buying experience was a Boxster, but the one I looked at was in such bad shape I swore off Porsche all together, and just assumed this was the way they were.

[concept84]

I also want to add that Jeremy Clarkson and the guys at Top Gear and fully responsible for me blowing so much money on cars lol.

I chose the boxster in the end because in all the years the show has been running, they really could never say anything bad about it, and it always beats something in a challenge every time its on the show.