Further proof that Craigslist is the most awesome invention known to man: the online listing service has allowed a California teenager to drive a better car than I do.  Correction: a better car than I will ever hope to have in the foreseeable future.

Steven Ortiz, who is barely of driving age, is now cruising down the freeway in a Porsche Boxster. And no, he’s not a trust fund baby or a lottery winner. He just knows how to fully utilize the online community that is Craigslist.

It all started with an old cell phone which was traded for an iPod which was traded for a dirt bike and so on until Ortiz finally ended up with the 2000 model year Porsche.

That last sentence begs a few questions. How do you justify trading an iPod for a used cell phone? Better yet, how do you justify trading a dirt bike for an iPod?

Maybe it’s just this crazy, throw-away culture that we live in. Or maybe this was all a serious case of CUI: Craigslisting Under the Influence.

For his part, Steven says that trading up to the Boxster was no easy feat. “It takes a lot of time. A lot of patience,” he told Fred Roggin of The Filter. Ortiz thinks that in a down economy, people still want the thrill of a new purchase but they don’t have the money to make it happen. So they instead resort to bartering old stuff that they aren’t using anymore.

Congrats to Steven on the new Porsche. You can see his entire story in the video below: