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I have been talking to the dealer I have bought my Porsches before in order to buy a GT3.

Well after going back and forth all day it seems like nobody know much as far as delivery dates. According to them they spoke with their Porsche representative to find out more specifics and the answer was that I would get one sometime next year. Maybe january maybe december maybe june who knows........Very disappointing to say the least.

Strategy, production uncertainties, holding the market to charge more....again who knows.

I guess my business is different because if a client wants to give me money in advance first of all I would not turn the money away and second I would probably try my best to come up with a delivery date for the product, but thats just me and I am nobody so maybe I should contemplate Porsche's way and try it with my next client........NOT!!!!!!

any of you guys know something different please enlighten me...

thanks

david

Mike in CA

I responded to your question in the My GT Build thread.....

Dr.Bill

I think it's somewhere between November and who knows when.

Nick

David I agree and share your frustration. Car introduction and production schedules are planned well in advance. To tell the customer we know nothing except we require a deposit is not a good business practice. Consider they have introduced the car and made many promotional statements but not prepared to back them up with journalist testing for another 5 months or so. Also, consider the fiasco with the sport bucket seats. Porsche is not handling this well.

911dev

heard that the first round, 200 allocations will be offered to 918 buyers. The second round of cars will be in the spring. fact or fiction time will tell.

Mike in CA

where did you hear that, if you don't mind me asking?

malmasri

Part of the 918 order is the VIP program where depositers on 918 get first right of refusal on all sought after cars including GT3

rijowysock

they get first dibs, but not all of the first batch... how many 918 guys are there? and then how many even wanted the 918 turbo or the GT3...

my dealers allocation is nov

Mike in CA

That makes sense. I imagine the higher you are on a dealer's list the better the chance of getting a GT3 even if one is scooped up by a 918 customer or two. Whatever, I don't need to be first on the block. I'll get one when I get one.

rijowysock

my florida dealers said "sold out"

my ohio dealers said "want one?"

i honestly don't see more than 100-150 918's being bought stateside... it's a great car, but it will never be an Enzo imo.

911dev

agreed, but still dips into 'our' allocations. is the Nov allocation yours?

carcommander

As of Oct of last year they had sold about 400 of i think around 1200 918 production. 918 owners get first dibs. I heard the first GT3s will be delivered late fall. The first ones will go to their best customers. That would be how I would do it too.

frayed

I think you guys are being a bunch of sensitivos. Relax, you'll get yours.

Based on past experience with buying in demand Porsches, the dealers get to decide who gets the first allocations, and each dealer has a different methodology.

I think Macca posted in another thread detailed build information, and IIRC, US spec cars will begin builds in October.

Nick

When I was at the dealer two weeks ago I got the full court press to buy the 918. Not once did they mention I would get my GT3 sooner if I bought the 918. If I am not mistaken, wasn't there was similar rumor about another model which was in demand?

911dev

just joking here; not concerned whether mine comes Nov or months later.