Buying first Porsche

[gucciman]

Hey guys

Looking to buy an open top sports car and narrowed it down to Boxster or Slk

Forgetting the Slk for a while I've been scouring eBay and auto trader for boxsters but the range of specs, mileage, condition and prices is just bewildering

There's 2 I'm really interested in both from local garages

A 2005 2.7 with 100k on the clock advertised at £9,950, stunning car in gt silver with every extra, mileage higher than I'd like but price about 3k less than average (it's the newer facelift model)

Or a 2004 2.7 with 50k on the clock for £8000, silver with blue hood

Would you go for the newer car with the higher mileage or the older car with less mileage ?

Can boxsters handle high mileage or would you consider 100k miles just run in ?

Thanks guys

[gucciman]

Oh and while I'm at it would you go for the 3.2S or is the 2.7 ok, bearing in mind my last open top was a 1.8 Mgf ! Lol

[gucciman]

And it's got to be Auto

[VladD]

You won't find a lot of praise for the tiptronic gearbox on here, but if you can find a PDK that will be better. I'm not sure what year PDK was introduced though.

[sidicks]

gucciman said:

Hey guys

Looking to buy an open top sports car and narrowed it down to Boxster or Slk

Forgetting the Slk for a while I've been scouring eBay and auto trader for boxsters but the range of specs, mileage, condition and prices is just bewildering

There's 2 I'm really interested in both from local garages

A 2005 2.7 with 100k on the clock advertised at £9,950, stunning car in gt silver with every extra, mileage higher than I'd like but price about 3k less than average (it's the newer facelift model)

Or a 2004 2.7 with 50k on the clock for £8000, silver with blue hood

Would you go for the newer car with the higher mileage or the older car with less mileage ?

Can boxsters handle high mileage or would you consider 100k miles just run in ?

Thanks guys

The SLK isn't really a Sports car, go with the Boxster!

[PorscheGT4]

tiptronic gearbox , I stopped reading after that ....

on a personal note, I would not buy a 100k miles car, rather have a newer MX5\S2000 or some thing if £8k was my limit.

a 100k Miles Porsche is still a Porsche which needs Porsche parts and Porsche spend and fat tyres which costs lots.

[Greshamst]

£10k for a 100k miles 05 boxster seems steep.

You could get a 50k miles 05 for £10k, maybe not one that has all of the options, but still.

And yea, as said by the others, would avoid the tiptronic gearbox, much worse than the PDK that came later.

[FarQue]

gucciman said:

And it's got to be Auto

Auto haters will always hate... however, the tip'box is ok. Takes a while to learn to get the best out of it. PDK better though.

[billzeebub]

With the Boxster I would always put maintenance/ownership history ahead of age/spec/colour/mileage.

A well maintained example with full service history (specialist or dealer) ,sympathetically driven 100k miler will always b a better bet than a 1 owner 50k miler that's not been used regularly, but driven hard when it has and has only been serviced 3/4 times by a main dealer. Plenty of examples of both around as well as all in between.