Why so cheap?

I've seen a couple around the

 

I've always meant to get a test drive and see what they're like.

Seem to suffer pretty terminal depreciation.

I suppose the Boxster is the choice of the masses, and there's pretty much a Boxster to suit all pockets, from

 

You've got three main drawbacks:

1. oversupply of the somewhat duff cooking models hits exclusivity/residuals.

2. It looks like that.

3. Potentially expensive running costs.

It makes quite a convincing case for buying one secondhand, in fact!

 

Running costs, high VED and high mpg means the car suffers in the used market.

There are a lot of ex-management stock out there at the moment.

The depreciation curve will flatten just as it did on the previous Z3M.

Great value for money.

You can get a fully loaded 07 plate for

 

i fancy the alpina version.

 

I prefered the look of the Alpina version, but the lack of a slippy diff put me off.

I've been looking at M roadsters for a while, and have been waiting to see if prices slip any further. As Moff said ex management stock has killed the residuals - the coupe doesn't seem to fair any better than the roadster. Apart from the looks I don't see why the average punter would have a coupe over an M3, and i think that might be one of the issues - the M3 residuals are significantly stronger.

 

I'm going to try one of these shortly

Do they not have LSD or is it just the Alpina??

 

One of the advantages of the M3 is the increased practicality over the Z4MC. So I guess this helps the residuals due to the bigger market.

I can't really think of may similar other coupes within the

 

 

a 2 year old z4m looks like a lot of car for the money.
keep it for a couple of years and you may get away resaonably lightly on running costs.

as/when i come to selling the S one of these would be an interesting replacement