I considered most of those too. Didn't like the image of the boxster, Beemers as you say are sooo common, S2k looks like a birds car, RX8 is vile imo, TT is too sterile and looks like a hairdressers car. I also did not want to go down the football hooligans cars eg scooby or evo's etc hence I ended up with the zed and loved both of the two I owned
+1 thats roughly the route i took aswell