Why did you buy - your - Boxster?
 

For me, it was because I had lost the love for driving that I had as a kid, and was looking to see if I could find that again. I remember when I first got my licence, I couldn't stop driving - I'd find places to go to, just so that I could enjoy that feeling of driving some more.

That feeling had been sorely missed over the years. With my Boxster I've got back that feeling, and whenever I think about where I have to go to, it makes me smile and brings back the great memories of just driving, and enjoying the journey.

What about you guys/girls, why did you?

Cheers :cheers:

For me i wasnt even planning on buying a Porsche bc i couldnt afford it but at work one day i was scrolling through autotrader and saw this great deal and went and bought it. I was currently driving a supercharged GTP at the time but this car has added 6.2 years onto my life :cheers:

hey GREAT thread

i had too many cars and couldn't make up my mind, and to this day people tell me how in the hell did u keep that porsche so long? haha

but i told myself that i want a convertible, preferably w hardtop, something that not many people drive around, unique, and wanted to have a color that wasn't common.
once i saw this car i HAD to have it...so talked to dealer for 4 days straight and got it...for unbelievable price too
and i keep on dumping more and more money that i dont have into it hahahah (but arent we all obsessed with that?)

Amen to that djomlas! I loved this car for so many reasons. For the most part the fun factor, the originality of it, the fact that the look never ages. Its perfect. People can't tell how old my car is, cause the paint is still beautiful even after 8 years, and the engine still runs great.

I originally wanted a 2001 z3 but man am i glad i didn't. Props to porsche for making such a timeless work of art

I drove it...

They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.

I bought it.

Been doing this :D ever since.

Because my wife wanted it!

Thank god she has good taste in cars.

I have wanted a Porsche as long as I can remember.

When I first saw the Boxster in 1997 in the parking lot at work I remember standing there open-jawed and in awe. I loved it !

So, my first Porsche was a 1988 924S. Picked it up for $3k, great little fun car. I was leasing a Jeep Grand Cherokee at the time, and bought the 924 just for fun.

When the lease was up on the Jeep, I sold the 924 and bought a Jaguar X Type. The plan was to keep the Jag for 5 years, then buy a new Boxster. This was 2004.

In 2006, I went with a buddy to look at a BMW 740. That's when I saw the Box. The sales guy offered trade in on my 2 year old Jag, and I realized it was doable.

Didn't buy that one, but 12 Boxster test drives later, I found my baby.

Do I regret trading in a 2 year old Jag for a 7 year old Porsche ?

Not in a million years :cool:

Nick

I went to high school in southern California in the late 1960's and to say girls, surfing and cars were the icons of the day would be an understatement. I really wanted a sports car, but only could afford at the time was a 10-year old Karman Ghia. Great car, but hey, it was a VW. Ever since then I wanted a real sports car, with Porsches at the top of the wish list. School, then family sidetracked my interest in cars until fairly recently.

A few years ago the bug for a sports car started to manifest itself more aggressively. Several of my colleagues were picking up two-seater convertibles and seeing them driving by and waving with huge grins made it hard to ignore the siren call of the drop-top ride. I was looking at a number of cars including the Z3, Boxster and the Miata, the later was really the car in the family budget. That was until I was at a dealership "just looknig" at used Boxsters. The shrewed salesperson said even though I was not really interested in buying, if I wanted I could take a 2000 base Boxster home for the weekend. Thats all it took....

Ed

:D

Prior to buying my boxster I had absolutely NO plan to buy a Porsche. Never crossed my mind. I had been planning on buying a car for about 8 months. Running through my head various options. I went from a new truck to honda civic ( for gas mileage ), to a nissan 350 Z, and everything inbetween. Porsche never considered. Then one day flipping through carmax website I came across this little car that looked good. It was a boxster. Started researching them a little without really considering to buy one. Anyway long story short, when I went car shopping decided to test drive a boxster for the hell of it. It was like being on a rollercoaster, like on rails. I NEVER imaged a car could take corners like that. I had to have it, bought it, and havent regretted my decision for a second ever since.....

Logical choice
 

Like BoxsterLewis, I was driving a supercharged GTP with every imaginable option, and had quite enjoyed the car. It was getting a bit old, so I started looking at my options. I have always loved Porsches, having always admired them at all the driving events the BMW club did with the Porsche club in my BMW years (1983 to 1999). I evaluated quite a few other cars, but the wife suggested I not even consider them, as she knew if I 'settled' for a vehicle that was just 'o.k.' we would regret it, and probably just end up getting something else. Hence my attention turned to Porsche.

I was naturally thinking 911, but my wife convinced me to consider the Boxster as well. The Boxster S seemed to be the perfect compromise, and after almost two years of careful consideration and shopping, I finally made the purchase in February of this year. So far it has been excellent - I've only driven it with the top up twice - and both times it was pouring. Unfortunately, the summer heat will soon return to South Florida (already starting) so I may not be able to keep that streak going, but it has been great fun since I got it.

Come fall and the return of cool weather I will be looking for DE events. I am also considering a trip to find some nice roads - something lacking here - so I can really enjoy the car in full.

Sloan
 

You said you only had top up when it was pouring rain. I've never driven in the rain. How did your top hold up ? Did it leak at all ? That's something I've been concerned with.

The sound.

I've always wanted a Porsche since High School.(I'm class of '82) My Best friend hald a 924S and for his birthday his Dad traded in the 924 for the 944...every since then I wanted a Porsche, and always loved the 356 along with James Deans 550 spyder

Flash forward several years and my wife's sister Teresa was a Senior Project Manager with Porsche North America...when the Boxster came out I just about died...I thought "Oh my God...it's the evolution of the 550!"...Loved it. With my sister in law working for Porsche I knew she could get me a great deal. In the past she had worked for ford, and we had always bought Ford products because of the HUGE family discounts. Two years ago Teresa passed about from AML after complication of breast cancer at 42 years old, so the idea of a new Porsche was out of the question...so I put the idea on the back burner.

For my wife's 40th birthday, I bought her dream car...a Mercedes SLK...
Flash forward to this year...Huge promotion at work, HUGE pay increase, HUGE bonus program...Ok time for my car.

With the pay increase I thought..Ok, I'll just buy a 911...So I went out and spent a few month trying to find the perfect 911...I drove evrything from older ('86)911 to 993, to 2002-203 996 even tried a 997. Even with the pay increase I wanted to keep it affordable...didn't want to blow all of my bonus, so I decided keep under $36,000...

Welll, as much as the boxster was a car I had dreamed of, I thought I now made too much money for an "entry level" Porsche.....then I had the chance to drive a Boxster.....WOW I had a grin on my face that is still plastered all over ( see my pics in the show and tell gallery) and decided that the Boxster not only was a great value, but I found to be alot more fun to drive than the 911....I found the car of my dreams for a fraction of what I had budgeted and took her home less than a week ago...couldn't be happier!!!

I've been a Porsche fan since I was a little boy. Through my adolescent and teen years, I had the obligatory Porsche posters all over my room.

I restored an MG Midget for for my wife for Christmas the year her Mother died. No matter how much time, effort and cash I poured into that car, I could not make it reliable enough for her to enjoy. I offered her every classic convertible I could think of to get her to part with that MG. No dice. One day, she came home from work and said she'd seen a brand new car that she loved - the Pontiac Solstice. I took her right to the Pontiac dealer to order one. When the dealer added his $7,500 "adjusted market value" to the sticker, I told him where to drive his Solstice, and that I could buy a Porsche convertible for that kind of money. After a few moments of disappointed silence on the ride home, my wife asked "Could we really get a Porsche for that kind of money?" BANG...done deal.

Why ...
 

Regain my lost youth one drive at a time.

I needed to get a new car last year, and the '07 Mini Coopers and Volvo C30 hadn't been released yet and I wasn't sure about either one. So I was going to go get a Wrangler to driven until something I liked came along.

To make a long story short, as I was walking in CarMax to the back of the lot to look at a Wrangler, and I passed a Blue Porsche Boxster. I didn't think I could afford it but when I checked the price I was stunned to see it was affordable, and only had 17k miles. Then my dad told me that his 944 lasted him 16 years.
Two days later that Blue Porsche Boxster was mine. I never intended to get one, but I am glad I did! :cheers:



(I just noticed something weird, this is my 944th post, and thread post #16 - :eek: )

For me it was the simple act of sitting in seat that sold me. It had such a natural feel to it. ( for me anyways).

This commercial says it all: http://youtube.com/watch?v=pGTv7lMY9XA

......Could anything every make us feel that way again, could the clock be turned back, could we ever regain that special feeling.......is there a way to feel like a kid in a go-cart again.......maybe there is: After 45 years the affair continues; the Porsche Boxster.

I sold my business a few months ago after going through a bit of burnout and decided that I needed a convertible after living in Florida all these years. I have been a huge Porsche fan since I was a kid but never thought I could ever afford one. I bought the Consumer Reports Used Car Buying Guide and narrowed it down to the Boxster, Corvette Convertible, Audi TT, and BMW M3. I loved the interior styling of the TT but it was a bit of a dog. After my 1st drive in the Boxster S I was sold. I love everything about it. I joined a local PCA, made new friends on this forum, and asked my wife for the Porsche Driving Course for my birthday. Although we have never spoken, one of your fellow members - Perfectlap has given me an education in car detailing. I spent more money on towels than I did on my first car - lol. Financially this is the absolute worse move I have made in my life but it has brought so much enjoyment. My wife and I find an excuse to drive to the beach every day.

My cousin bought a Boxster in July of 1997. Brand New, Artic Silver, Black Interior. He brought it to our house the night he bought it and I was 11years old and I looked at my dad and said "when I get my license thats what I want!"

Flash forward to 2001/2002 I was ready to get my drivers License and I told my dad I still wanted a Boxster and he said fine call your cousin and tell him we will buy it from him since he no longer drives it. The stage was set, my cousin agreed to sell us his 1997 Boxster. Two weeks before I got my drivers license his car was Stolen from BEVERLY HILLS PORSCHE while it was in for service. :mad:

I was pissed!

In the end it all worked out, Car was stolen, Dealer paid for car and sold me a Brand New 2001 Boxster with awesome options for a great price. So I ended up with a brand new Boxster. :D

truth be told my Miata was allot more fun to drive. And not nearly as expensive to maintain. Someone offered me much dinero for my Miata so I decided to take the sure money. In retrospect I think that was a mistake but I couldn't get away with having two sports cars that only had four seats between the two.

But the BoxsterS is the only car that wouldn't have made me feel regret and its a zillion times safer.

My job sucks, I'm going through a divorse, I just spent 8 months in Iraq and I am going to spent 6 months a year for the next 3 years 500 feet under the ocean, but all I have to do is put the top down and go for a drive and all seems well. :cool:

I wanted a car that I wasn't going to regret buying two years after I bought it. Three years of Boxstering now and I'm still smiling when I fire it up.

:cheers:

1-Mid-engine

2-Steering feel

3-Low curb weight


I had 3 S2000s in the past and was tired of dumping money into aluminum steering rack bushings, suspension-chassis mods, etc.. to make the Honda have a little bit of steering feedback.

Then I focused on upgrading the brakes which felt week plus the ABS would kick in all the time under hard braking.

And I always had a fantasy of owning a mid-engine car since all the best supercars were mid-engined. I figured there has to be a reason.

Well one drive of the Boxster S solved all my problems. It's more comfortable than the S2000 while handling just as well. It has 10X more steering feel even being 100% stock.

You also just can't beat the sound coming from behind your left ear...

I drive an SUV everyday out of necessity and wanted a weekend ride. I had previously owned a Z3 and an SLK. After driving a Boxster S, I was totally sold and had to have one. I had always wanted a 911, but after looking at the two side by side I think the Boxster has a better overall look. The rear of the 911 convertible has that round look to it, while the Boxster's is lower and more streamlined. With the rear of the car flatter than the 911 the Boxster also looks wider, similar to some of the true exotic sports cars.

I don't know about you guys, but I catch myself walking around the car and just admiring it from different angles! I am not sure if you ladies do this, but we get it honest. It is ingrained in men to like curves. This car has got em, can take em, and if your single, help you get em! Two out of the three for me and my wife has never even sat in the car.

I grew up around Porches, my dad is a fanatic you can say...there was always at least one Porsche in the garage for as long as i can remember... once my brother got his boxster and i drove it i decided to trade in my old car for a box too which i found a good deal on a few yrs later ... so i guess we're keeping Porsche a tradition in the family lol
its funny because my dad said he would only drive the boxster as a beater car yet most of us here dont think of boxsters as beaters haha ( at least i know i dont)

what got me to actually buy it other then that was:
good deal on a great car
white= i loveee white cars
convertible= im a sucker for convertables
came with a hardtop for those cold/snowy chicago winters
fairly easy to mod, make it your own...
all around great little car...and a good sports car for its price range :)
good on gas compared to other sports cars ive owned

Because I am insane? Why else would one own a nice Porsche when you live in godforsaken weather wasteland like the Twin Cities! Okay, the weather here this spring has got us locals down a little.

I have always like the look of the Boxster, always got me to take a second look when I saw one. Last spring I was at the Mazda dealer pricing a new battery and there was this extra fine black Boxster in the parking lot. Started thinking about getting one and finally pulled the trigger 6 weeks a go. Like the car more with each drive (in spite of the crappy weather).

BTW: this board is great for getting up to speed on the Boxster.

Last October a friend of mine invited me to his house to show me something, when I got there he showed me his 1997 Boxster and took me for a ride, well the ride was nice then he told me to drive it. I got into the drivers seat and let down the top and after driving it for a few blocks I was hooked.

I asked him where he bought it from and he took me to the dealership where he bought it, I saw a few Boxsters on the lot but since I wanted a early model year at the time I passed on looking at any of the cars because they only had the later model cars. But on the showroom floor was a 2007 base Boxster and boy did it look nice, the salesman asked me if I wanted to drive it, I said no because I was not ready to buy a car at the time but I did pick up the Boxster sales literature book and read it cover to cover the same night.

Well 2 days later, I went back to the dealership with my son and sat in the 2007 and it felt great and I was hooked and lined. Then I went home and after learning about the differences between the 986's and the 987's I decided to look for a 987 and after visiting a few websites along with a few dealerships I found my 2005, then drove it and i was then officially hooked lined and sinkered and have been happy ever since.

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

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!!!

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:

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.

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.

Yet another accidental buyer.

Got my dream car in 05 (Loaded Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, before they ruined it with the 4 doors and independent suspension). This left my wife driving our old 02 Ford Focus. Started feeling pretty bad about the situation, even though she didn't seem to mind and was not really a car person. Promised her the next car would be a little convertable for HER.

Sold the focus and started looking at Miatas and MR2 spyders, thought about the Mini Cooper, but Porsche never crossed my mind (Too expensive, out of reach).

Budgeted ~ 10k to find her said Miata, found a White 1998 Box for 10k...

Miata or Porsche... Done Deal!

In retrospect, should have done better homework on the Box, since previous owners did not maintain it as well as I would have liked. But for that price, I could bring it up to great condition and still consider it a deal.

Just bought it last week and other then worrying about the dreaded engine failues, could not be happier. Giving my wife her dream car was worth every penny!

Hahaha... funny story Grizzly. You made the right move.

I hear ya bro! My story is similar to Silver Arrow's. I spent two years in China on a job. My wife (of 15 years) moved back to the States six months before me. When I finally came back I wasn't on US soil for 48 hours before I had divorce papers served on me! A week after that I was starting a new job in Northern California, but my family and kids were all back in the Mid-west.

That was a pretty depressing time for me. I was living in a hotel and facing my first Christmas alone. So I got myself a little Christmas present - I bought my Boxster. That car could always put a smile on my face and helped me to pull myself out of a tough period in my life.

Lots of reasons.

I wanted a joyride. My kids were all off to college so no need to drive a minivan/suv/familymobile anymore. I drive a pickup truck for work (boring). I had a Porsche GT "Dan Gurney" slot car as a kid. The last time I owned a true sports car was in college 1975. I just sold off a portion of my business so after paying the taxes and paying off some debts I still had a nice pile of cash in the bank. Time for a special gift to myself :) .

At first I thought I would just pick out a nice 996TT, Saleen Mustang, or a Vette. After driving each of them I refocused a little. They all had tons of HP and torque, went 180+, looked good, but I figured I would rarely get them out of 2nd gear. I don't street race. Too much car, not enough fun.

Next I looked at classics like the 911SC, Ferrari 308GTS, and the Beck 550 Spyder replica. Great cars, lots of tinkering required, no modern conveniences. Nope, not yet.

Then I started looking at Boxsters. The more I read about them and drove them, the more I liked them. They looked great right off the lot, sounded great, plenty fast enough for me, extraordinary handling and balance, and modern conveniences like air conditioning, airbags, computer controlled fuel injection, rev limiter etc. A great modern roadster at a very reasonable price. By far the most fun car I drove out of all the others. Sold! I paid cash for the car, invested some of my leftover $$, and donated a good chunk to charity. I have been grinning ever since.

My love affair with Porsche started at the Detroit Auto show when I was 11. Saw a beautiful 911 fat a$$ with a whale tail - similar to the arctic silver color. Hooked I was. Poster of Porsche's hung in my room growing up. I loved the Box when it was introduced...love that roadster look. Everything I heard about it being the most true handling vehicle ever built...don't need a ton of HP to beat that!

Besides, one of my boyfriends after college had a 92 Chevy Camarro and then a 91 Vette. I actually preferred the Camarro over the vette. A much smoother ride for one thing!

I had been looking at buying a Box in 2002 but needed a larger vehicle to haul all my crap -and my bordeaux mastiff around...so the Box had to wait.

But now....it's time to take the Box for a ride!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have always wanted a Porsche since I was a kid. I decided that I was ready to get my sports car when the house was paid off. I started looking a different cars - S2000, 350Z, Z4, Audi TT, 911, etc to find the one that would provide the sportiness, looks and practicality that I needed. I looked for over a year at the different cars and decided on the boxster after taking a few test drives. The driving performance on winding roads with the top down sold me and the golf clubs fit in the trunk as a bonus.

It's really amazing how different we all are ...... but yet the same. In the end, we all love our Boxsters ....... with a real passion. It makes me happy to see so many other people happy too. Top down, flash other Pcars, smile, and enjoy the ride ...... hey, now that's livin' the good life!

Cheers guys/girls, all the best! :cheers: