Porsche Boxster Spyder (981)
Why 7.8: A 3.8-liter flat-six shared with the Cayman GT4, a manual-only gearbox, and a fabric top folded by hand instead of a button — Porsche's purest recent argument for a roadster. Low production numbers mean most surviving cars are already in enthusiast hands rather than dealer inventory.
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Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €75k (2015) → €110k (2026), trending up · illustrative data
The long version
Porsche built the Spyder as the Boxster nobody was demanding, and almost nobody who understood it walked away: a manual-only flat-six roadster with a soft top that folds by hand, sharing its engine with the Cayman GT4 that got all the attention instead. Because it never got a PDK option and never chased a lap-time headline, the buyer pool skews toward people who specifically wanted the mechanical simplicity over the wing, and that shows in how the surviving cars get used, driven hard with the top down rather than trailered. Values dipped briefly after production ended before climbing again as manual-only Porsches got scarcer everywhere else in the range.