8000 英镑保时捷 Boxster S — — 讨价还价或灾难吗？

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廉价的 Boxster S 的想法似乎几乎太好了，是真的，但有时它可能只是值得考虑的机会。电话铃响了之后的另一端的人听的只是几秒钟，, 我的心沉了下去。
它是我的父亲 — — 是 76，但仍然无可救药地痴迷的汽车 — — 想要知道他又去买一位年仅 14 岁的想法怎么想 保时捷 Boxster s。
你要对一个问题有那样的反应在一个悲惨的早晨在 1 月如何在地球上?
在响应我第一次他想起了他的年龄，然后一些次要还详细介绍了如何多 14 岁 Boxster 可能成本要修复时，如果不出差错。
但那时候他已经是到他的步幅，告诉我多少讨价还价的这个特定的例子似乎是，和关于为什么他已把他的想法他要去买它。
所以在那时我决定听的他的钱就会消失流下"当法案开始滚滚，毕竟。在那点东西去了从坏变得更糟。
它属于非常好冠冕堂皇的中国男人也住在特威克纳姆，我父亲说。其唯一做 15.000 英里。
和好的中国人从特威克纳姆想他可能被计时的 Boxster s 多少?我曾询问。
八个大，他回答说。虽然我希望地狱花了七年半。
哦上帝，我想，他真打算买它。和在这一点上你能做什么?所以我建议他应该去和实际开车在交出任何钱在车 naïvety 一疯狂爆发之前。他做接下来的一天，他又回到甚至更热情的他发现了什么。
原来，和他似乎属实他们得到汽车有问题已拥有由从全新的中国，同样好的人。HED 在 2000 年从夏天买了它 保时捷 第一民族议会中奇西克。
不久后他去工作在美国五年，不过，在这段时间他得到第一民族议会通过运行它定期，人人都在车后看。
当他回到的英国他使用了它作为一个玩具，第二辆车基本上，并且继续把它由 AFN 提供服务，每个单一的条例草案，以证明它。
它也有一个全新的电动敞篷，和刚工作 1100年对它来修复小泄漏其门槛之一进行。当我老爸开车带它回家几天后，眉宇与 7700，我认为他可能，只是几秒钟，一直在地球上最幸福的人。
几天后，我走过去，看了看它，和我完全不敢相信我的眼睛 — — 因为那里，坐在我妈妈和爸爸的驱动器，是看起来像全新保时捷 Boxster s。事实上，它看上去好像刚下生产线。
所以我开车它转位的块，不如没有从任何地方吱一阵。还是觉得不错，活泼的阻尼器、 变速箱似乎完美无缺，像那样的转向、 刹车和油门响应、 排气注意到、 罩操作、 机舱、 两个靴子前后......您命名它，这辆车来说似乎很完美。
不仅确实它看起来像一个全新的 Boxster S，但它似乎开得很像一个，太。
现在我的心不再下沉 — — 无论如何，不直到下一个奇怪的电话约车发生。.

The idea of a cheap Boxster S seems almost too good to be true, but sometimes it might just be worth taking the chance. The telephone rang and after just a few seconds of listening to the person on the other end, my heart sank.
It was my father – who is 76 but still hopelessly obsessed by cars – wanting to know what I thought about the idea of him buying a 14-year-old Porsche Boxster S.
How on earth are you supposed to react to a question like that on a miserable morning in January?
In response I first reminded him of his age, and then went into some minor detail about how much a 14-year-old Boxster might cost to fix when, not if, it goes wrong.
But by that time he was already well into his stride, telling me how much of a bargain this particular example appeared to be, and about why he had already made up his mind he was going to buy it.
So at that point I decided to listen – its his money that will disappear down the plughole when the bills begin rolling in, after all. And at that point things went from bad to worse.
It belongs to a very nice sounding Chinese man who lives in Twickenham, said my father. And its only done 15,000 miles.
And how much does the nice Chinaman from Twickenham want for his possibly clocked Boxster S? I enquired.
Eight grand, he replied. Although Im hoping hell take seven and a half.
Oh God, I thought, he really is going to buy it. And at that point what can you do? So I suggested he should go and actually drive the car before handing over any money in a frenzied outburst of car naïvety. Which he did the very next day, and came back even more enthused by what hed discovered.
The car in question has been owned by the same nice Chinese person from new, it turns out, and he seemed to be as genuine as they get. Hed bought it in the summer of 2000 from Porsche AFN in Chiswick.
Not long after that he went to work in America for five years, though, during which time he got AFN to look after the car by running it up on a regular basis, by all accounts.
And when he came back to the UK he used it as a second car, as a toy, basically, and continued to get it serviced by AFN and had every single bill to prove it.
It also had a brand new electric hood, and had just had 1100 of work carried out on it to fix a small leak in one of its sills. And when my old man drove it home a few days later, having parted with 7700, I think he might, just for a few seconds, have been the happiest man on earth.
A couple of days later I went over and took a look at it, and I couldnt quite believe my eyes – because there, sitting on my Mum and Dads drive, was what looked like a brand new Porsche Boxster S. It looked, indeed, as if it had just come off the production line.
So I drove it round the block for a bit and there wasnt so much as a whiff of a squeak from anywhere. The dampers still felt nice and perky, the gearbox seemed faultless, as did the steering, the brakes, the throttle response, the exhaust note, the hood operation, the cabin, the two boots front and rear… you name it, the car seemed perfect.
Not only did it look like a brand new Boxster S but it appeared to drive pretty much like one, too.
And now my heart is no longer sunk – at any rate, not until the next bizarre phone call about cars occurs. . .