I'm Twentysomething, Should I go with a Boxster? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

YellowJacket · 06-19-2005, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by RandallNeighbour

WIVES???

Dude! Are you planning to get married in the future, or divorced and remarried over and over? I hope that was a typo or you're Mormon.

I've been married to the first wife (and my last wife, and only wife for that matter) for 18 years now, and I own a Boxster... won't be the only Porsche I own, that's for sure.

And I refuse to become an "adult", whatever you mean by that. I have a 12 year old boy trapped in a 43 year old body.

Yes, you can have a wife and family and a Porsche if you young men will only STAY OUT OF DEBT and start saving your money. That's what I did in my mid 20's, and now at 43 I could fiesably retire, although at my age it would be boring and I couldn't do nearly as much fun stuff with my free time as I can now, albeit a lot less free time.

Hahaha, yes the "wives" was a typo. I'm scared enough about getting married once, but the financial aspect (not to mention others -- like mental health!) of getting divorced and remarried like so many people consider "normal" now scares me!!

But yeah, I'm working on that whole "stay out of debt" thing right now. Just out of college 6 months ago, so I'm doing some catching up right now, but hey -- I just bought a house for 20% under value, and my roommates are paying my mortgage for me! So I would think I'm on the right track... :-)

kiwiinneworleans · 08-19-2005, 07:54 AM

What a great posting - some awesome stories!!

I'm 30, married, with no kids, and in one week, I will be the proud owner of a midnight blue 2000 2.7 Boxster that has done 30,000 miles. To me, owning a Boxster represents the following:
1. Rewarding my hard work, rewarding my past conservatism (Ford, Toyota, Ford, Jeep), with a quality german engineering
2. Becoming part of an elite club of individuals who take pleasure in driving some of the greatest produciton cars in the world
3. Creating a sense of identity - buying something that my friends and colleagues will identify me with.
4. This is my "diamond ring".

Come on - lets face it - there is no sensible justification to buy a Porsche - if we were all as conservative as I am, we'd be driving cheap Chevies our whole life. It is all about reward. I have worked hard through my career (graduated college young (20)), spent 10 years with a great company. I have yearned from a young age to own a Porsche (specifically a Boxster), saved and invested a lot of cash, and now have the cash to easliy afford this car, both to purchase, insure and maintain without impacting my lifestyle (giving up good wine for a porsche?.... no way!!).

To the young guns straight out of college wanting to get straight into heavy debt to buy this car to look "cool", I tend to side with Larez2 - buying any heavily depreciating item on credit just makes bad economic sense from whatever way you look at it. Buy something cheap and reliable that you can pay off quick and establish good credit, work for 5 years, save some money, then buy with outright cash. But if you are lucky enough to have the cash, make the decision to buy quality, realising that if you want to play in this game, you will also have to "pay" in this game (i.e. we don't want to hear your whimpers about $'000 services....). Go and read the technical forum, and just see how bad things can really get!!

Wish me luck folks - and to the site moderators - you are doing a fine job!!

The Kiwi in New Orleans (now in Houston).

KRZTACO · 08-19-2005, 09:17 AM

Well, here's how I am going to play it out......

1) Drive and love my boxster for a few years.

2) Wife and I have a kid in a couple years.

3) Well, sorry wife....I need a 997 S so the kid can sit in the back, sell the Boxster.

Looks like a solid plan to me.

KRZ

kiwiinneworleans · 08-19-2005, 10:43 AM

That's my plan!! My wifes loves Porsches so there will be no problems there!!

RandallNeighbour · 08-19-2005, 11:18 AM

Ah the wife loves Porches today, but tomorrow when a baby's room and lots of bills piling up for private school or daycare or whatever will make her like it a lot less and something else a lot more... bigger house, SUV or minivan, etc.

Life always gets in the way of fancy sports cars for some reason unless you're a guy like me without kids and without debt. Then Porsche ownership can be as important as the air I breathe.

But I applaud all you 20 somethings for doing well enough in your chosen careers to buy a new or used Boxster! Just don't hock your left nut to buy a rolling debt machine thinking, "If I don't get my Porsche now, I will never get it!"

That's short sighted thinking and all things come to those who wait. <--not a very popular statement for younger adults to read, but all you 40+ guys reading this know what I mean, huh?

Leslie · 08-19-2005, 12:37 PM

I'm 22 now and i have an 03 Boxster S.

I love her dearly and have no regrets. To this day I only owe 11k on her, and am paying her off by end of year =)

I don't know if there is anything better then being young, free, successful and a women in society

Oh yea and owning a beautiful car.

kiwiinneworleans · 08-19-2005, 08:09 PM

Good on you Leslie!!!

Mark986 · 08-19-2005, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Leslie

I'm 22 now and i have an 03 Boxster S.

I love her dearly and have no regrets. To this day I only owe 11k on her, and am paying her off by end of year =)

I don't know if there is anything better then being young, free, successful and a women in society

Oh yea and owning a beautiful car.

Is there anything more attractive than a young, free, successful woman with the brains to understand what kind of a car the Boxster is? Talk about having the whole package. I think I'm in love!

Adam · 10-08-2005, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Leslie

I'm 22 now and i have an 03 Boxster S.

I love her dearly and have no regrets. To this day I only owe 11k on her, and am paying her off by end of year =)

I don't know if there is anything better then being young, free, successful and a women in society

Oh yea and owning a beautiful car.

Hey sweet ride Leslie. I couldn't have picked a better car myself lol! You beat me to the punch though, I was 23 when I got mine and now a ripe old 25.

insatiable · 12-31-2005, 09:12 PM

I just love this site!!
Got a real charge reading what these "youngsters" say about owning / buying their Boxsters.
I'm due to pick up my first Boxster or Porsche for that matter at the end of Jan. An 03/ 2.7 with 14000 Kms. Arctic silver 18" wheels and a few other nice goodies.
Wait for it ------------------------------------------------- I'm 68 !!!!!!
Wife says I get free membership to SOFA ---" Silly Old Farts Association" but who cares ,you can still have fun up until they nail the lid down!
Any other Grandpa owners out there?
Happy Motoring to you all in 2006