Thinking about getting a Boxster... any input?

Are you flying out to get it and driving it home?

If you're shipping it you may as well tell her about the extra $3500 while she's still pissed.

 

Planning on a little “driving with dudes”?

If you promise him a go in your Prius, you’re guaranteed a visit from @27.

 

Lololol I can tell you are a married man. I bought a few other cars over the years so she knows about shipping.

 

No doubt about that. He will be sending us smoke signals.

 

We are flying out Sunday morning for the Carolina’s, to look at houses for retirement. Not up in Ashland, around Charlotte and some other lakes. A cool development called tega cay is more than we want to spend so some other places around there? A couple places in South Carolina too.

Then we fly to NYC to visit Tyler. I did look at tickets a minute ago for me to fly into Cleveland and drive it down to Charlotte. Then meet her at the airport Sunday and continue our trip in the car, but it is an 8 hour drive from Cleveland to Charlotte. Plus that would be a constant reminder on the entire vacation of something that “wasn’t my shining moment in husbandry. That sounds like another stupid move.

So I will probably ship it.

 

I'm on vacation next week, so I could fly up from DFW and drive it to you.

If, that is, you wish to continue with the string of poor choices and let me beat the living hell outta your new albatross.

 

Congrats!! Rowing your own gears is the best!

side note, what happened to the co-ownership of the Lotus?

 

That's not really a chick car, favorite chick cars vw beetle, fiat 500, or if there adventurous, maybe a Miata.

More like an inexpensive stepping stone to a 911, without attracting a lot of attention.

Nice looking car, your wife will probably grow to love it.

 

Made me log in just to like this.

Bada bing bada boom

 

Sounds like you didn't make the move soon enough. Now you caught a case of the gheys from living in ickifornia and they may not accept you in the Carolinas.
You'll have to retire to Palm Springs now.

 

Oh I still have that, my buddy and I put 4k miles on it in 2 years and it is absolutely incredible. probably would have done a lot more but I had it apart to send off the ohlins for rebuild and replace the tires. That’s a week or so job. I think it was on stands for 6 months. It is the most fun car I’ve driven. I did get to drive a GT4 the other day and it shifts much better, but the lotus steering feels much better, plus the lotus weighs 1980-2000 lbs and the Porsche is 50% more. It is crazy how much of a difference that makes.

…..why do I need two sports cars? I would rather drive one than some luxury car, Camry, accord, civic, suv, etc. I’ve always liked little zippy cars. I really liked my mini cooper S, another chick car, although I would argue more manly than a Boxster?

 

@Boman Forklift
I'm maybe 15 minutes from N.Royalton. If you need any local assistance in the CLE, or need to park it somewhere. It would be funny to have it next to my Dad's identical one. We had a local shop do the IMS bearing as well I can hook you up with.
And keep an eye out for one of the later year tops with the glass back. I'd have to double check what years. Its a straight swap, and the glass is miles easier to see through than the plastic rear that tears and gets fogged/scratched.

 

I considered a Miata too, another chick car. I drove a friends 3-4 years ago up in the mountains, those cars shift incredibly well, puts a lotus shifting to shame. Plus it would be much cheaper on service costs. I will probably rack up 25-30k a year commuting. Who knows how quickly I will get tired of that?

 

Awesome!!! If you don’t mind, PM me your cell and let’s chat. I didn’t even realize it had a plastic window, I agree a glass one would be a smart buy sometime.

If we did that, would you and your dad go out and drive both of them together, because that would be f…ing awesome and I want to make that happen? I will do some more studying, but I think I’m gonna chance not replacing the IMS bearing? I believe that’s an old enough one that it actually came with a dual roll bearing and those have an under one percent failure rate or something. I could be remembering wrongly, but it only has 60k miles. It’s nice but not a dream car like the lotus was or a GT4, GT3, Ferrari, Lambo etc would be. So I’m willing to roll the dice on the IMS unless this is a bad year. I think I remember reading even the bad years, the risk was only 8% of all engines will fail.

 

Only if being an unreliable POS makes it "manly"

 

PM incoming.
My understanding was that if the car was babied, then that would increase the change of failure. This was definitely one of the affected years. But yes, its a low chance of failure.

 

Actually the R53’s 02-06 were the more reliable ones. I only had 60k on mine when I sold it to buy my daughter a Kia forte. The only problem I had up to that point is the electric window regulators would sometimes stick. A quick whack on the side door panel again working again.

It was so much fun. I remember one time having Tyler in the car and we were on an 2 lane entrance ramp and a Viper was ahead. I told Tyler hold on and watch this we’re gonna smoke him onto the freeway. I came up from behind past him and then he didn’t pass me until we got back on the freeway and he went flying by. I knew we would be able to do that, because I used to own that same gen 2 Viper and it was too scary to go through that corner very fast. A mini cooper s really inspires confidence in the curves.

 

Apparently we have different ideas of what constitutes "reliability"

The takeaway is I approve of your latest choice

 

You are right. I just don’t think the Porsche will be cheap/reliable to own either. If I wanted cheap and reliable it would need to be Japanese. Probably the Miata or if I had more coin the Honda Civic type R or Acura version. I would love either of those two cars, but I can’t write a check for one of those, I would need to get a loan. Plus I would feel guilty driving 30k miles a year on the slab in such a nice new car, depreciating it so much?

 

Nice Rob. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, I had an '02 S and really liked it. The only big maintenance item I had was the CV joint boots and that was after about 10 years. Don't worry about the plastic rear window, mine still looked fine after 1o years. It was garage kept, though. Just drive the hell out of it and enjoy.

Incidentally, one of my buddies now races one of these in Champ Car, and Lucky Dog endurance. Of course they went nuts and did some kind of engine swap with a 911 motor. They just smashed the hell out of if at Roebling, held up pretty well actually. They had to put it on the trailer with a forklift, but supposedly its repairable.