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Good choice. I prefer the handling of the mid-engined Porsches to the rear-engined ones. As long as you're not bothered by the Clarksonesque rationale of it being a 'poor man's Porsche', which frankly is an argument only fit for Golf Club willy-waving, I think it's a better choice unless you really really need two very small rear seats.
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They get less reliable in a roughly linear relationship with capacity - you can relentlessly thrash the smallest engine for eons and it'll be fine.
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Can do you a deal on a box of parts ;)
There are a few boxsters in France RHD with UK plates and have been in france for quite a feww years so are cheap.
For 1-2k would hire be worth it, no storage nor service costs.
Brommers
Dammit
lynx
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I think I am going to start looking for an early manual 986.1 Boxster S instead of a 996 given that it appears relatively easy to get a decent one for 10k or less rather than the 20k plus for a 996, which seems hard to justify given I will probably only do 1 or 2k a year in it...