Today I met a gentleman (Dereck) a Veteran, that had this beautiful seal grey '02 986S w/52k for about 6 months.
I invited him to join the 986Forum, hopefully he does as he will have to learn to maintain his car (at least the basics) because he is planning to keep it for a while.
And since this car is an '02 (single row bearing), I recommended him to read all about the IMS to plan ahead, this car is definitely worth the investment for the piece of mind.