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If you could get a good 356 replica (or better yet, 550) for $25k, then that's the route that I would go for a "toy". For something that I wanted to drive more, then I vote boxster. But then the climate here has a lot to do with it. I'm a pasty white boy. If I had a speedster/550, I'd probably only be able to drive it at night to avoid the skin cancer. I've got a Boxster S with a hardtop, and the hard top has been installed for several years now.

You forgot to stick ND miata up there.

That's pretty funny, I almost never put the top down. My favorite top down driving is at night or dusk or in super overcast weather. But I've had a drop top car of one sort or another for the past 24 years (911 targa, miata #1, miata #2, boxster). I'd have bought a 911 coupe or cayman if I'd found the right one, but I didn't.

I think you should add
Beck 550 and miata to the list. I don't know that it's possible to get a Beck 550 for 25k. I think they used to be 20k, but I think these days they are at least 30k.

But going on what is in your list, I voted boxster.