The color choices of those who bought these and boxsters new (and/or what Porsche decided to build) is a huge roadblock for buying one used. It seems like a good 90% of the cars out there are some shade of grey.

I will never understand this viewpoint. I’ve always thought the 993 was far and away the worst looking Porsche, even if you include the awful early Cayennes in the comparison.

I’ll never understand why anyone liked the 993. Those laughably undersized headlights are the worst, but the bulging front (and rear) bumpers and unnaturally high/square doors don’t help either. The overall impression is of a pile of parts haphazardly stuck onto a lump of soap.

I said decent paint, i.e., at least as good as factory. You’d hardly be able to rattle can a whole car for $2k if you include labor, let alone using decent paint.

It doesn’t count if you offer colors, charge an insane premium for those colors, then wonder why nobody buys them.

As much as a good paint job is a pretty low bar.  Decent paint will cost upwards of $10k.

First generation Boxsters had a pretty decent pastel yellow. It only really works on that car because of it’s weird shape, though.

If only the NC wasn’t one of the ugliest cars ever produced. Which is a real pity, because the NB and ND both look great.

Fuel expenses are annoying in that they’re always there, but not significant enough to care about. Especially so if you’re only doing 5,000 miles a year in a car you could afford to buy new.

Maybe it’s just me. I’ve had one door mirror fall out, a couple rearview mirrors fall off, and many just get worn out or old and don’t hold their adjustable position anymore.

Traction control is only just now making it into the typical ten year old used car, probably not terribly common in the ‘car you buy a new driver’ category yet. So we’ll see when it gets there.

No but it can just decide to fall out of place and shatter.

My 86 has a backup camera and it’s field of view is just as blind to cars coming from the left or right, it’s too far toward the back of the parking spot to see to either side. Much like if you were standing there looking dead ahead, you wouldn’t see a car coming until it’s only a couple feet away. I guess it would…

I was on a flight with a total of about 13 passengers on a 737 once. Not quite the same thing but close. We had been delayed by about six hours and were supposed to have a connecting flight (which was not delayed), so most people took a different flight. Wasn’t that bad aside from takeoff at about 2:30 AM and having…

That’s what onramps are for.  It’s the 300HP caravan that does 25 on the onramp that’s the problem.

The first generation RX-7 had ~100 horsepower and weighed ~2,300 pounds. That is a good combination.

In a lot of cases there’s a driveshaft there.

Not having those features is a plus for some buyers.  Admittedly, I can’t imagine that’s a really big number, but it’s not zero.

They still sell them. They cost ~$5k though.

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