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I'm kind of sad I sold my Boxster S. Probably the best all-around car I've owned, and I've owned a large variety thus far already.
A friend who has a 996TT and I always had a saying though: "My Porsche is too old to be new, but too new to be classic."
Every mass-market (non race) Porsche model depreciates like hell for a certain amount of time, then appreciates until it reaches a steady state value. For 944's- they started out between $20K and later $40K, depreciated to about $4K a few years ago, and now a good one will run you about $7-8K, with good turbos going for $10K.
The Boxster- well, the bottom is possibly not in sight yet, but the early 986's are bottoming out at 8-9K and will level out at about 12-13K for a non-S, 14-15K for an S.
911 models all follow their respective desirable years, following similar traits but generally appreciating moreso as they age to a higher steady state resale.
The trick is to buy at the bottom and be sure that is the bottom. I did this with one of my 924S's. Bought it for $3K, sold it after 6 years (6 years!) for $4K.
Meanwhile.. I bought my 2000 986S for 18K and sold it for.... well... a lot, lot less. A lot less. Because I'm stupid and should have kept it.
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