2000 Porsche Boxster
Bought Cheap. Driven Hard. Enjoyed every Weekend
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My Story
This is the car I learned to drive stick in, and the one that got me wrenching on my own. Oil changes, brakes, suspension, exhaust, short shifter: I've done it all myself, and I know this car better than any I've owned. I picked it up for $9k with 62k miles and have added 18k since, almost all of it on weekends with the top down and nowhere in particular to be. It's not perfect and it's definitely not a garage queen, but it taught me that driving can be fun just for the sake of driving.
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The Car that Saved Porsche
Porsche was in real financial trouble in the early '90s, and the Boxster was the way out. The concept stole the 1993 Detroit Auto Show, and the production 986 arrived for the 1997 model year as Porsche's first all-new road car in decades and its first water-cooled mid-engine roadster.
It shared its front end and much of its engineering with the 996 911, and the formula worked, putting Porsche back in the black. For 2000 the base car got a bigger 2.7L engine, the Boxster S debuted alongside it, and this one rolled out in Guards Red with three pedals.