Spoke to him last night as we hadn't caught up for about a week.
He's pretty much set on a Porsche, he didn't like the 350Z - just didn't get on with the looks and the interior. He doesn't want a Z4M and we can't think of much else he does want apart from a Porsche.
However he doesn't know what Porsche
Cayman is out of the budget.
He's got £20k at the moment, he recons he'll have £25k within 3 months.
Boxtser he can get for about £20k, will be a current shape (although surely they are changing it soon)? He'll get a fairly decent 3.4 S and that's all well and good. He agrees he wouldn't spend more than £20k/£21k on a Boxster and would do whatever to get an OPC warranty on it.
£20k also seems to get you the old shape 911 (996 is it?), seems a bit odd to look at an 'old shape' car but we can hardly tell the difference between the 996 and 997 and he's got a private plate anyway. Downside to this is it's gonna be minimum 6 (I think?) years old and not sure how easy it is to OPC warranty these.
£25k gets you a 997 but Mark advises not to get one of these? He doesn't want to spend more than £25k on a car at the moment. So is it a case of certainly stay away from these? How are they like to get an OPC warranty?
Before you ask/suggest he goes and drives them I've said that but I do equally understand walking into your first Porsche garage and looking very young and asking to test drive a 996 and 997 and Boxster when they know they pretty much won't get a sale out of you because your budget is £25k isn't going to get you very far.
