My Boxster was almost ten years old when I sold it this year. It was perfect. Not a thing wrong with it and nothing likely to go wrong. All I did was do the 30,000 mile tune up and left it to the new owner to replace the alternator - but it was ten years old, so I can't whine about that. The a/c was fine, and it was mostly driven in Texas, so I'd call that a stress test.********** *********** *********** ********** ****** ********** *********** *********** ************ ************** *********** *********** ****************** Have you driven a Porsche Cayman? (No, NOT the truck. That's an abomination. Salesmen like to say it drives like a Porsche....but it's a truck and it drives just like a.....truck.) The Cayman started out as the "hard top Boxster" but it morphed into so much more. It still has the transverse, center mounted six cylinder engine, which gives the car superb stability and better handling than any other sports car I've ever driven, but it's also 200 pounds lighter than the Boxster. Road testers made that little darling go faster than the 911 on a standard course because there was less need to finesse turns and whatnot than with either a front or rear engine car. *** ********** ********** ************ *********** *********** *********** ********* ********* ********** ********** ***** *********** Given the choice, I'd get a new Cayman over just about anything else they have on offer. It's a sweetheart of a car.