Twin Turbo Boxster - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

ChrisZang · 03-30-2010, 01:02 PM

Well, since the site is in Australia I'd take the wild guess that the currency would therefore be Australian Dollars (which btw. has pretty much an 1:1 exchange rate against the US $)

SStiebers · 03-30-2010, 02:54 PM

There has to be something crazy going on there cause if you look on the site a my97 box not even an "S" is $34,000.00-$29,000.00 along with others at the same prices and none of them are very special other than in good condition. I only bring this up that the "TURBO" may not be as expensive as you think. I love my porsches but that is way too much.

r9i8c7k · 03-30-2010, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by SStiebers

There has to be something crazy going on there cause if you look on the site a my97 box not even an "S" is $34,000.00-$29,000.00 along with others at the same prices and none of them are very special other than in good condition. I only bring this up that the "TURBO" may not be as expensive as you think. I love my porsches but that is way too much.

Socialist Country.....

Daniel R · 03-30-2010, 07:09 PM

Yes gentlemen, welcome to my world!

Australia heavily taxes what are deemed to be "luxury cars". As soon as the untaxed value for a new car is above about 50k USD it has a luxury tax added, which comes on before the GST (think 10% sales tax on any good or service) to mean we pay a huge premium with tax on tax. This tax does not apply to the second hand market, however it is inherently built into the price due to an arbitrage between new and second hand prices (I'm sure the economists on here follow me).

Just to put it into perspective, a brand new Boxster S goes for about 150K USD without options.

If I was in the US guys, I would be driving a used GT3. I paid 60k USD (including transfer fees of about 4,500) 2 years ago for a 2000 Boxster S. It was a bargain as the dealers were selling them for about 75k USD at the time. Now after GFC etc. it is worth about 40k USD, but still expensive by world standards.

If you find that shocking, here is one for you. In my city, with a population of about 1.4 million, the MEDIAN home price is roughly $480,000 USD! Good luck first homebuyers!

SStiebers · 03-30-2010, 07:19 PM

Whoa! that explains it. Sucks to be you! lol.

Viper5 · 03-30-2010, 07:21 PM

It's odd to think of myself driving that car where the shifter is on the WRONG SIDE!

jmatta · 03-30-2010, 07:43 PM

No Turbo will ever sound like a GT3RS, the Turbo muffles a lot of the sound

Believe me, I understand that...just stating an opinion. I'm just not a fan of thundering Detroit noise, unless it happens to be fastened to the chassis of a vintage CanAm car.

Listen to the sweet sounds the Australian V8 Supercars make at 7500 rpm...haven't heard any Muscle cars sound like that.

SStiebers · 03-30-2010, 07:52 PM

Yes, That modified Holden V8 does sound (overused) ... Awesome! At some high revs!

Daniel R · 03-30-2010, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Viper5

It's odd to think of myself driving that car where the shifter is on the WRONG SIDE!

Hahaha. I thought that too Viper, but it is not so bad. I spent a month in France a couple of years back, and as I was in Nice rather than Paris, needed to hire a car and drive around due to a lack of usable public transport. I had no problem sitting on the other side, or shifting with the other hand. Where I had a problem mind you was when I had a passenger giving me directions. When she said left, I would turn right, when she said right, I would turn left. I had to reverse the directions in my mind to stay on the right side of the road, which made navigation tough. We solved the problem by pointing rather than verbal instructions!

Lobo1186 · 03-31-2010, 07:10 AM

definitely go with the LS series motors. more bang for your buck and much more torque! (gobs of it in fact!) then get yourself some better rollers and springs (and some other components) and you can rev that bad boy to 8500 RPMs now THAT is a scream.