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No.
I have extensive experience with teenage drivers, because I raised three (now all grown, and, well, among other things, homeowners, so I guess I did okay) and I was one, and alot of them hang around the track, shop, etc. (at least the car loving ones, do) and they're good kids I talk to all the time.
l) $2000 a year is sufficient to maintain a high-mileage 996 if in really good shape to begin with, and well cared for and driven sensibly. However, teens, even the best, are just hard on cars without meaning to be, and then of course often they mean to be. Then, $2000 won't even get it running again. And somewhere along the line that car with that mileage will need something expensive -- not Honda expensive or even Corvette expensive, but Porsche expensive. Got $10K sitting aside?
2) With all due respect, no teen I have ever met is intuitively mature enough (instinct, not knowledge), cool enough to say no when they should, or experienced enough as a driver, to stay out of trouble in a Porsche. A good teen will very likely get into trouble in a 996 in spite of themselves, one that misbehaves or is a bit wild will probably get hurt, perhaps badly.