I've just bought some poverty Pork…

[Rosewood Red]

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...

Reasonably priced and MOT history inspires confidence.

Edited by Rosewood Red on Sunday 23 April 15:56

[yajeed]

Rosewood Red said:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...

Reasonably priced and MOT history inspires confidence.

Edited by Rosewood Red on Sunday 23 April 15:56

Looks lovely. Not entirely convinced about the wheels though.

My slightly younger version of poverty pork after a run out today in the sunshine.

[Eddie Strohacker]

Rosewood Red said:

Lots of good stuff.

Edited by Rosewood Red on Saturday 22 April 18:58

I love these posts, they're just cars & a willing spirit & enquiring mind will keep them going ad infinitum. Nothing as satisfying as using your own hands to keep the thing ticking over.

[edc]

Eddie Strohacker said:

Rosewood Red said:

Lots of good stuff.

Edited by Rosewood Red on Saturday 22 April 18:58

I love these posts, they're just cars & a willing spirit & enquiring mind will keep them going ad infinitum. Nothing as satisfying as using your own hands to keep the thing ticking over.

If you need more useful home DIY posts and have a Boxster then look on boxa.net. There is a whole how to section and lots more DIY posts than on PH.

[Rosewood Red]

This has potential:
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...

2001 3.2 S, 45k miles, £7k. MOT history seems okay (mainly tyres!). As long as it checks out, think it's reasonably priced for the time of year.

[Ray Singh]

Tread with care - Lights look odd. Head lights are clear Litronics, but rears are orange. Was this normal?
Mileage is obsurdly low too.
I guess the colour is very marmite in this day and age.

[medieval]

With respect, how can red ever be considered "marmite" ?

[yajeed]

medieval said:

With respect, how can red ever be considered "marmite" ?

I guess it's less safe than, say, a black/dark blue car.

It was certainly marmite for me - I sought out a guards red car since I think it suits the shape well.

I had a silver 996tt and while it was once considered a very safe colour, I had quite a few people tell me they'd have bought it if it wasn't silver.

[Rosewood Red]

Ray Singh said:

Tread with care - Lights look odd. Head lights are clear Litronics, but rears are orange. Was this normal?
Mileage is obsurdly low too.
I guess the colour is very marmite in this day and age.

Pre-facelift with litronics had amber rears and side repeaters. Litronics are always clear. My '00 was like that from the factory.

It seems low-mileage is preferrable with the open-deck M96 engine, then again, there is the consensus that Porsches don't take too kindly to being garage queens.

As red makes a refreshing change from the resale black / grey / silver lease-brigade

I just posted it as it seems keenly priced for the mileage and the fact it's got litronics

[NJH]

Is it me or are Caymans apart from the borktastic gen 1 S looking increasingly like bad value poverty Pork. Stuff like early 2.7 Caymans just haven't dropped in price much if at all the past couple of years it seems and the gap to equivalent boxsters seems to be widening.

[andy97]

anonymous said:

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With all this love for the Boxster I think we have forgotten what great cars the 944S2/ 968 are.

[Rosewood Red]

Up until a few years ago, say 2012 or so, you could pick up a decent-ish gen 2 2.5 / 2.7 944 for around £4k. That was originally my plan, but then circumstances changed.

Revisited the idea last year and noticed the market had changed and supply seemed to have dried up / prices had gone up. Then noticed how cheap the 986 had become. Flat 6, open-air won me over in the end. Would like to try a trans-axle car one day, though

[edc]

As good as the 944/968 is you effectively pay a lot more for less. I know those cars have the usual reputation for 'build quality' but stuff just unfortunately wears out with age.

[Fast Bug]

I regret selling my 924, I just couldn't justify keeping it as the mileage was so low you couldn't just jump in a pop a few hundred miles on it

[Rosewood Red]

Also one of the reasons I'm in two minds about where I stand on low mileage examples.

A nice, mint, low mileage example may well be nicer, but I'd be inclined to drive it less, which somewhat defeats the point for me.

[kingston12]

Rosewood Red said:

Up until a few years ago, say 2012 or so, you could pick up a decent-ish gen 2 2.5 / 2.7 944 for around £4k. That was originally my plan, but then circumstances changed.

Revisited the idea last year and noticed the market had changed and supply seemed to have dried up / prices had gone up. Then noticed how cheap the 986 had become. Flat 6, open-air won me over in the end. Would like to try a trans-axle car one day, though

Indeed. I looked at a really nice 1989 944 Turbo a few years ago to go alongside my 2005 Boxster S.

My Boxster was worth perhaps £16k at the time, the 944 Turbo was up for £7k.

Decided I couldn't justify it at the time - the 944 is worth more than double what my Boxster is now!

Boxster is definitely where the poverty pork focus will need to be for the foreseeable future - even decent 944 S2s seem to be over £10k now, decent Turbos and 968s much more still.

[andy97]

anonymous said:

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They aren't old they are classics! And because they are starting to go up in value then that makes them even better value in the man maths stakes, and parts are still reasonably well available.

And whilst I often look at Boxsters as potential purchases, I really just don't want a convertible so that limits things somewhat.

[lilwashu]

I had an '89 944 Turbo not long ago and my 2.5 Boxster was a better car in any way I could measure (except straight line speed).

[medieval]

anonymous said:

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I hear what you are saying but I must admit, red would be one of my first choices and am really surprised that some would avoid this colour. Mind you, I did have a green Boxster 3.2S - now that certainly divided opinion.

[kingston12]

lilwashu said:

I had an '89 944 Turbo not long ago and my 2.5 Boxster was a better car in any way I could measure (except straight line speed).

Agreed, I have got a 987 3.2S so it is faster than the 944 Turbo as well as being light years ahead in terms of interior, handling, gearbox, engine, sound etc, etc...

For me, it was just an itch I wanted to scratch as the 944 Turbo was the relatively real world car I always admired as a kid.

The appreciation in value compared to the Boxster's decline is the only other thing that makes me regret not purchasing. I could have owned two Porsches and actually made money over the past few years and that can't be bad!