Rarity of the Cobalt 987 S

[Mig]

Love to get a view from this audience, I’ve been searching for a cobalt 987 s with a manual trans for months now - in all my searching I found 1 listed and sold 9 months ago. Currently there’s only a pdk on the market. Are they truly that rare? Should I give up and move on ? Has anyone seen one recently to prove that more than one exists!

[CarGuyNeil]

Rare but you can find them.

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[husker boxster]

Porsche owners like safe colors - silver, gray, black, and white. Those 4 colors cover 85-90% of all Porsches sold. The other 10-15% are divided between red, yellow, blue, and even lower production colors. If you want a low volume color, be ready to take some time to find one. I have an orange Boxster S LE and a signal green Cayman S Sport (nothing safe about those colors). There is a 987.1 cobalt blue base Boxster in our local club, so they do exist.

Are you looking exclusively for a 987.2 (that's the example you mention but use generic 987 earlier)? If you're 987.2 exclusive, you'll have a really long search as Porsche production during 2009-2012 was substantially low due to the recession. Throw in the fact that coincides with the intro of the 9a1 engine, the 987.2s that come up for sale are quickly sold (I just helped a friend sell an 09 CS in 2 wks). If you expand your search to include the 987.1, you'll have 4X more of a chance finding an 06-08 in cobalt blue (total sales approx 30K 987.1 vs 8K 987.2). Plus you'll have an easier time finding a 987.1 S vs 987.2.

[BYprodriver]

In 2002 a similar blue came out as a extra cost option on the 996. I think it was $3,100.

[coldstart]

In Edmonton,Canada:

https://www.autotrader.ca/a/porsche/cayman/edmonton/alberta/19_11435994_?showcpo=ShowCpo&ncse=no&orup=1_3_3&pc=M3B%203C6&sprx=-1

There was one local to me in the cobalt blue that I was thinking about but it appears to be sold. It was much cheaper too but from a fly-by-night small used car dealership.

[coldstart]

The local car is not sold but it is an automatic with a ticking engine. They are asking $13K USD ($18K CAD). I may buy it if I can get it at 75% of asking and put a new motor and tranny into it.

[husker boxster]

There's a cobalt Cayman S on pca.org

[Sboxin]

Originally Posted by BYprodriver

In 2002 a similar blue came out as a extra cost option on the 996. I think it was $3,100.

Yep, Cobalt Blue is a great color . . .
Regards,

[Mig]

Ok - I’ve found one in TN! Has Pasm and blue interior which is nice - of course more than I was hoping to pay (always is) but let’s see. Truth be known I’d kinda like silver with the cocoa interior myself - the seat centers would be immediately reupholstered in houndstooth 911R style but my wife would really prefer a color, lighter blue or red, orange too. She’d do white with a blue interior funnily enough. So I get a boxster and she gets blue. Seems like a fair compromise! My last two Porsche’s we’re seal grey so this will be a change!!

[Mig]

Gosh 986’s look magic in blue -

[Mig]

And as luck would have it, the TN car is sold!

[tcora]

Originally Posted by Sboxin

Yep, Cobalt Blue is a great color . . .
Regards,

That’s very nice. I have seen just one of them in the flesh and really liked it. I ended up with a Midnight Blue 03 simply because it’s what was available on the secondary market in 2006.

[Rusty Heap]

Rare, which is why Yes, mine will never be sold.......

Manual with the sports chrono package too.


07 Cayman, beautiful !!!

[tcora]

Very pretty, except for that part where the top doesn’t fold down:-)

[Mig]

https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/inventorylisting/viewDetailsFilterViewInventoryListing.action?zip=3 0061&showNegotiable=true&sortDir=ASC&sourceContext=carGurusHomePage_false_0&distance=50000&sortType=DEAL_SCORE&endYear=2009&entitySelectingHelper.selectedEntity=d408&startYear=2009#listing=273882825

PDK unfortunately - I’ve been really disappointed with with how the dual clutch in my M2 has diluted any remaining driver engagement BMW hadn’t already engineered out. I know pdk is fundamentally better but I’m looking for the involvement I’m sorely missing in the M2.

[CarGuyNeil]

Originally Posted by Mig

https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/inventorylisting/viewDetailsFilterViewInventoryListing.action?zip=3 0061&showNegotiable=true&sortDir=ASC&sourceContext=carGurusHomePage_false_0&distance=50000&sortType=DEAL_SCORE&endYear=2009&entitySelectingHelper.selectedEntity=d408&startYear=2009#listing=273882825

PDK unfortunately - I’ve been really disappointed with with how the dual clutch in my M2 has diluted any remaining driver engagement BMW hadn’t already engineered out. I know pdk is fundamentally better but I’m looking for the involvement I’m sorely missing in the M2.

Adding the chrono may bring back some of the excitment. Others have commented time and time again how it made such a difference in the PDK.

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[Mig]

So a manual 2005 S came along with 11,000 miles - gt silver with full leather, pasm and Chrono w/ 19’s - it was too hard to say no to I jumped in that. Really happy with it

[picinkoff]

Pictures?


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[Mig]

Here’s one - on drive home from Baltimore - put 750 miles on it on day 1 - after it averaged 730 miles a year for the 1st 15 years

[Mig]

His and hers - hers is a DCT - why I needed a manual - so definitely hers