Boxster or Elise- best mid life crisis car?!
Discussion
They were both launched in 1996 and they are both really cheap now and Ive always held a desire to one day own one of them...I hope that day may arrive in the next few years...but which would make the best mid life crisis car, something as a second car to a more practical run around? I think Boxster, but a day in an Elise way back in 1997 when they were new has always left an indellible impression in my mind that i cannot erase!! Used Boxster for 5 grand is mighty tempting however!!
Daily car or weekend toy?
The Boxster is a car, the Elise a toy. You can use an Elise daily, just with a lot of compromises, particularly as I assume you are talking about an S1.
A £5k boxster will be a leggy 2.5 and won't really feed a petrolhead sufficiently in performance either. Assuming your budget runs to £8k (being a half decent s1 Elise), then a boxster s or at least 2.7 is a better comparable.
Very much chalk and cheese to be honest.
The Boxster is a car, the Elise a toy. You can use an Elise daily, just with a lot of compromises, particularly as I assume you are talking about an S1.
A £5k boxster will be a leggy 2.5 and won't really feed a petrolhead sufficiently in performance either. Assuming your budget runs to £8k (being a half decent s1 Elise), then a boxster s or at least 2.7 is a better comparable.
Very much chalk and cheese to be honest.
I've had my Boxster 6 months now but haven't used it too much until the last month or so. I love it. It handles incredibly well, the flat six sounds fantastic and I still find it a pleasure to see it in shop window reflections. When washing it on my drive (before the hose pipe ban!) people would stop and admire it, it really is a flawless design which in my opinion has improved with age and after all, it is a Porsche.
Go and buy one now while the sun is still shining!
Go and buy one now while the sun is still shining!
I've been eyeing up boxsters and got told its a mid-life crisis car but i'm only 28.
I don't really get it. If you're young you can't have one because you'll be called flash and if you're old then you're having a mid-life crisis.
Anyways, beautiful machines, better looking than a cayman IMO and very usable from what i've been told.
I don't really get it. If you're young you can't have one because you'll be called flash and if you're old then you're having a mid-life crisis.
Anyways, beautiful machines, better looking than a cayman IMO and very usable from what i've been told.
The Elise is noisy, uncomfortable, and my friends version smelled of unburned fuel if he opened the window. On the flipside it handles fabulously.
The Boxster is quite refined in comparison, and does handle brilliantly, but is less 'WhooooAAAA there' than the Elise.
If you want a toy, and only a toy, it's Elise all the way. If you want a car though, it has to be the Boxster...
The Boxster is quite refined in comparison, and does handle brilliantly, but is less 'WhooooAAAA there' than the Elise.
If you want a toy, and only a toy, it's Elise all the way. If you want a car though, it has to be the Boxster...
craigb84 said:
I've been eyeing up boxsters and got told its a mid-life crisis car but i'm only 28.
I don't really get it. If you're young you can't have one because you'll be called flash and if you're old then you're having a mid-life crisis.
Anyways, beautiful machines, better looking than a cayman IMO and very usable from what i've been told.
I bought a Boxster S about that age, having had TVR's and Loti from about 22. Never been called flash or accused of having a mid-life crisis. I don't really get it. If you're young you can't have one because you'll be called flash and if you're old then you're having a mid-life crisis.
Anyways, beautiful machines, better looking than a cayman IMO and very usable from what i've been told.
Actually, that's not true. I have been accused of having a mid-life crisis but that's due to wearing Converse apparently.
chris7676 said:
Elise if you have no problems getting in/out and don't mind a noisy unrefined toy. Is more special than Boxster, cheaper to run and shouldn't lose much value.
Look after it and you probably won't lose any value; I've been tempted by one for a few years and it seems the minimum price of a good useable S1 has remained at 7-8k in that time. Cheaper ones can be found but they are inevitably dogs.
Elise I think is the proper mid-life crisis car due to its impracticality and, for me at least, more focussed looks, which can come off ridiculous due to the small size. Boxsters are fantastic but you can get in without doing your back in - not crisis enough.
And in a lairy colour of course.
And in a lairy colour of course.
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