A rather slow day at work has had me browsing PH for the past 45 minutes, imposing some rules picked out of thin air I'm struggling to find a hypothetical car to replace my Boxster S.
I've decided on no more than £10k + my car, which at a guess is probably worth £15k-£17k depending on what day of the week it is, so I was looking at about £25k.
Ideally I'd like it to be about the same age as the Boxster so around 2007. Equally I'm not bothered if it's older or newer, nothing massively old though as I quite like the perks that come with modern cars.
Ideally 2 seats, due to the fact it'll also need to be a convertible and I don't need more than 2 seats and most 4 seat convertibles look a bit gash.
Power, i would like at least equal to my car, ideally much closer to 400bhp so something like a 911 S.
Gearbox would have to be manual as I really don't get on with the nice new auto boxes, no matter how much better they are. This is a problem with me and not the gearboxes but I'll stick with the manual for now.
Mileage - couldn't care.
Running costs - this is the interesting stumbling block, I love the fact my Porsche has an OPC warranty and I don't worry about it at all, because if it goes wrong it's not my problem and I know after a phone call I get a nice new 62 plate Boxster to ponce about in for a few days while Porsche fix my car. Insurance isn't an issue (see below) and tax doesn't bother me as it's £450~ now anyway..
MPG I can deal with teens, servicing anything up to £1k a year, tyres £250 a corner is acceptable. At the moment if I wanted to extend my OPC warranty on my car when it runs out it would set me back £1k, so I'd like this hypothetical car to either cost less than £1k in repairs per year on average, or know that £1k would get me a decent warranty.
Everything points to a 911, but they are more than I would like to spend on a decent one, which is pushing me into stuff I would normally not consider and I'm getting lost.
Usually people would turn to their 'dream' car at this point as well, I do have one and it would be in budget and fit most/all of my self imposed criteria with one small exception - no one in the world will insure me on it. £600 will do me FC on a Boxster S at 22 but as soon as you mention an imported LHD Mustang of any sort I'm told to jog on. So sadly this is off the cars till I'm 25 I guess.
So what would OcUK suggest.
Hypothetically of course
tl:dr - £25k, convertible, ideally 2 seats, faster than my Boxster, around the same running costs, manual, about the same age, mileage not bothered, warranty would be a massive positive.
Looking at my tl:dr the car that jumps out at me is a 2007 Porsche Boxster S......
I've decided on no more than £10k + my car, which at a guess is probably worth £15k-£17k depending on what day of the week it is, so I was looking at about £25k.
Ideally I'd like it to be about the same age as the Boxster so around 2007. Equally I'm not bothered if it's older or newer, nothing massively old though as I quite like the perks that come with modern cars.
Ideally 2 seats, due to the fact it'll also need to be a convertible and I don't need more than 2 seats and most 4 seat convertibles look a bit gash.
Power, i would like at least equal to my car, ideally much closer to 400bhp so something like a 911 S.
Gearbox would have to be manual as I really don't get on with the nice new auto boxes, no matter how much better they are. This is a problem with me and not the gearboxes but I'll stick with the manual for now.
Mileage - couldn't care.
Running costs - this is the interesting stumbling block, I love the fact my Porsche has an OPC warranty and I don't worry about it at all, because if it goes wrong it's not my problem and I know after a phone call I get a nice new 62 plate Boxster to ponce about in for a few days while Porsche fix my car. Insurance isn't an issue (see below) and tax doesn't bother me as it's £450~ now anyway..
MPG I can deal with teens, servicing anything up to £1k a year, tyres £250 a corner is acceptable. At the moment if I wanted to extend my OPC warranty on my car when it runs out it would set me back £1k, so I'd like this hypothetical car to either cost less than £1k in repairs per year on average, or know that £1k would get me a decent warranty.
Everything points to a 911, but they are more than I would like to spend on a decent one, which is pushing me into stuff I would normally not consider and I'm getting lost.
Usually people would turn to their 'dream' car at this point as well, I do have one and it would be in budget and fit most/all of my self imposed criteria with one small exception - no one in the world will insure me on it. £600 will do me FC on a Boxster S at 22 but as soon as you mention an imported LHD Mustang of any sort I'm told to jog on. So sadly this is off the cars till I'm 25 I guess.
So what would OcUK suggest.
Hypothetically of course
tl:dr - £25k, convertible, ideally 2 seats, faster than my Boxster, around the same running costs, manual, about the same age, mileage not bothered, warranty would be a massive positive.
Looking at my tl:dr the car that jumps out at me is a 2007 Porsche Boxster S......
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