Budget Based Porsche Buyer’s Guide: $100k

For prospective shoppers, six figures represent new cars, the Boxster Cayman 718 range, five-year-old 911s, and some very desirable, and above all, usable air-cooled cars.

On a different budget? Check out these other Buyer’s Guides

• Porsche Buyer’s Guide: $25,000
• Porsche Buyer’s Guide: $50,000
• Porsche Buyer’s Guide: $75,000

Porsche Boxster / Cayman Under $100k

With a six-figure budget, the buyer can contemplate a new 350 bhp Cayman S or the Boxster S, but Porsche’s notoriously expensive extras could easily add $20,000 to the new price. Depreciation, as my dad was fond of pointing out, is steepest in the first year of almost any mass-production car’s life and means there are some tempting specifications just below the magic 100K with little used examples.