Doug, The Boxster has a massive front bin and a rear boot large enough to take two 10kg sacks of animal feed. Inside there is a big glove box, between the seats tray and generous door pockets.
Tarka will be on probation, I can't live with a car that has incontinent electrics: I have a bet on with Milligoon that in the end it will be one or more bad earth points.
I hope it's as simple as a few bad earth points, one would have thought a good auto electrician would have tracked those down...I bet Porsche or other soft luggage suppliers will have tailor made luggage for those areas, to maximise the use there of.