I am selling my Boxster (just listed it). Its sick how low the prices are. I have it listed at $22.9, but I doubt I will get close to that. Its basically pristine, 35k miles, hardtop, $8000 worth of options (xeon, sport design interior, etc....). Sad. :(

I think part of it is people perception of the economy. No one is feeling flush with cash right now......

Sure is economy driven. I wish we had an amazing economy and Porsche prices rivaled Europe. Then we wouldn't be losing all of them to the other side of the Ocean. A $40,000 911T that seems like so much money to us is a joke at just over $20,000 euro's. Even $100,000 for a nice SWB car is only $50,000 euros. As you can see this is a problem for us.

Last time I checked, the exchange rate was under 1.50. But your point still remains.

George

The Boxster is the new 914, not the new 944. The 996 will be the 928, agreed.

Factors:

- High sales numbers, these cars are everywhere
- Lots of improvements (power!) over the years make the early 2.5 look like a dud.
- The first model Boxster shares the front with the 996 and it's just ugly. Mitsubishi Eclipse!
- Unfortunately there are a lot of speedsters out there these days and they are all low $ used. (Z3, Miata).
- The new model looks very different - better.

I don't agree it's the economy. Still plenty of people with 10k to spare.

I have seen them so low, that I have thought about getting one even though I don't care for them much. I do not think that they are hard to work on. We are just not familiar with them. Generally the new cars are better to work on and need less maintenance to start with. (I.e. the twin distributor and 12 wires are likely gone on the water cooled cars. ;))

George