I would agree that you want to be real carefull buying a tricked out car. It may be a great "sleeper" but if you couldn't have done the work in the first place you'll have problems doing the fixes if something goes wrong. Also ask yourself why someone puts that much into a car and then sells it. Maintainance issues? Insurance issues? Can you control your driving in a car like that?

As to the type of car, I just have a problem with the coffee can exhaust. No matter what you put under the hood the 4 banger just doesn't have the growling sound of a good V8. I put a Rear Muffler Bypass on my 928 I got this last summer (it still has first stage muffler and cats) and now it sounds almost as good as the empeg car!

Here's a picture of the car:

http://www.tower-mt.com/pics/davids_gt/2000_Lake_CdA_Drive/pres0002.html

and you can hear the sound of it on the dynomometer at 180mph indicated (6500 RPM in 5th gear) at:

http://www.tower-mt.com/pics/pacnw/2000_Dyno_II/ (click on DavidSchmidt.mpg. It's a hair over 6mb)

Quite a bit heavier car, but will do about 14 seconds stock AND go through the corners nicely to boot.

These cars were never accepted completely by the traditional Porsche fan because it's a front-engine, water cooled V8, but that's gotten the price for them down to a quite reasonable level. (No WAY my wife would have let me buy a new one.)

Mk2, 40gb (9gb free!), blue