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ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

If one were hypothetically looking for the following:

3 season season daily driver / grocery getter / pleasure driving
No track time
NOT a project car
Dealer- or shop-maintained (i.e. no shade tree repairs)
Modestly modified OK (i.e. suspension upgrades or tastefully executed power adders
Reliability a must

What do y'all think?
928S4?
951?
968?
Boxster?
Mid-80s SC?
930?
964?
Early 911/911T?
914/6?
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9xx · Joined: 18 Jun 2006 Posts: 627 Location: Jarvenpaa, Finland

ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

Carrera RSR · Joined: 08 Jan 2010 Posts: 2312 Location: Somerset, UK

Several there would not be <$20k unless project cars!! Certainly not in the UK for second half of that list.

SlayerSST · Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 212

Nein37 · Joined: 29 Dec 2009 Posts: 513 Location: New London, CT

Hands down 84-86 Carrera

Good power
Great sound
Reliable
and a nice one could be had for 16-17K

*Note* If you are 6ft or taller don't get an 85, the seat mounts are 3/4" higher that year and it will be cramped. 86' returned to orginal mount height.
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Khal · Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 2:36 am Post subject:

It'd have to be a 964, 968 or 986.

The Boxster would be the best value for money, when you're getting up around twenty grand, I'd wager. You could get a later S for that.

You could probably come close to getting the best 968 around for twenty grand. Same for a 951. But even the youngest ones are getting pretty long in the tooth these days.

As for a 964, despite being an obsessive 911 fan, I know next to nothing about them in terms of reliability, least worst (or, at least, cheapest to fix) idiosyncrasies, whatever. So I'm going purely from a Classic and Sports Car series about one of the contributors that had a long-termer and really liked it.

Is it possible to get a 993 for that money? That's the one I'd want.

But a 930, an early 911... a 914?! C'mon, you can't be serious?
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morghen · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 9105 Location: Romania

i cant belive you put the 914 and the early 911 and you didnt put the 924...i mean....wtf?!

i'd have the 968...all the others are too expensive to maintain for a simple daily driver.
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Grenadiers · Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 3:30 am Post subject:

Ahem, the '85 Carrera Coupe, which I have, is incredibly reliable-once you figure out all the electrical bugs! The build quality is amazing, but, like any P-car they don't like to sit. I have early sports seats, which are manual and lower, works for this 6 foot twoer. The 915 transmission takes some time to work for you, but once figured out, not a problem.
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Rasta Monsta · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 11733 Location: PacNW

Agreed on the 3.2. Pure beast.

Boxster engine problems are too numerous to mention. . .really puts teeth in the old axiom, "no such thing as a cheap Porsche."
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snakoil · Joined: 09 Feb 2010 Posts: 362 Location: Montreal, Canada

I'd go for a v8 for a daily driver
I think it should be the more comfortable on long runs
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Carrera RSR · Joined: 08 Jan 2010 Posts: 2312 Location: Somerset, UK

snakoil · Joined: 09 Feb 2010 Posts: 362 Location: Montreal, Canada

There is more than cylinder number that goes into calculating gas consumption...
The 928s4 has proper furl injection, some of the carbed 911 mentionned are surely worst on gas consumption.
Also a v8 will not work a hard on highway speed and will run at lower rpm then the some other cars mentionned which might ueld better mpg
Also i would definetly got hardtop for daily driver.
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Jakkq · Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 810 Location: Omaha, Nebraska

I would personally go for the 928.

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joejax · Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 11:11 pm Post subject:

Yep, 928 all the way, gas mileage has alot to do with how you drive it

http://www.treehugger.com/cars/why-top-gear-got-it-all-wrong-in-prius-vs-bmw-m3.html

Hah! Those crazy treehuggers....

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