TXshaggy

Doubt that folksy wisdom will be in play this winter for a Spyder. If you’re lucky to see a unicorn or two, no one will be giving them away…

Almost 200 US dealers and below is what’s available today.

*991*

In the past normal years I would have said make sure your finances and job are in line. In these non normal years you should probably plunk down a deposit to get on a waiting list now and hope that u would get the car a year from now. The deposits for wait lists should be refundable anyway and should u get an allocation and u are not ready u can always ask your dealer to pass on it and wait for the next allocation.

swberry

Allocations cometh according to my SA in Texas. Says he will be making calls at some point during the first week of November. I have an order demand for a BGTS and I’m at the top of the list (according to him). Details sketchy, but what I took from it is that there will be a few. He said they will have allocations for November and then no more until next April.

If I don’t get an allocation next month I’m just going to bite the bullet and buy a spyder off the pre owned market. Not for $176K for Gods sake, but something nonetheless.

G.Irish

Finder.porsche.com is kinda wonky, I just saw 10 Spyders for sale on there.

Either way, the point I'm making pertains to used cars. New cars have slowed to a trickle and I think dealers would probably rather try their luck with waiting until March than letting it go for MSRP now.

For used cars that are already on sale now, many of them have been on the market for months already. Letting those cars sit on the floor for another 5 or 6 months doesn't make as much sense. Doesn't seem like there are gonna be any more buyers willing to pay $20k over for a used Spyder or GT4 several months from now.

I don't think we'll get all the way back down to MSRP, but maybe closer to $5-10k over instead of the numbers we're seeing now.

nobbyv

My SA emailed me today to say he's hearing rumblings of allocations on 11/15. Wouldn't be the first time they expected something and ended up not hearing anything though.

SToronto

^ That's likely accurate. Something is coming within next 2 weeks.

As you say, they can receive allocations but you may not get the call.

Valeyard

is it the same for all dealers? Or just your specific one?

nobbyv

Delete, duplicate

nobbyv

Porsche sends out allocations in bunches. So, on 11/15, they'll have, say, 50 (ha!) GT4 allocations that they'll distribute to dealers. Not sure anyone knows the exact formula, but exactly what dealers get one (or more) is based on the sales volume of the dealer, how long they've had demand orders, etc. So *some* should be coming. Will my dealer get one? Will yours? Who knows.

ronbauer

Step 1, officially announce GT4RS
Step 2, give out allocations for "regular" GT4

nobbyv

All for it if it means some people decide they'll hold out for a RS and free up another "regular" GT4 allocation for plebes like me!

TXshaggy

Better hurry, GT4 allocations will cease once RS allocations hit the books.

ronbauer

Yeah, as much as I'd like them to stop production of GT4s to keep them more rare, I also have a couple of friends that I'd really like to see get into one.

I'd also love an RS, but like you, I'm just a plebe, lol..

Ron

ausgang

I hope you are right. I've heard there are a whole bunch of factors that can earn allocations for a dealership. In addition to the obvious ones, there are things like buying press cars from the PCNA fleet and finding them a home, rennovating/expanding the sales facility, etc. I suspect there's some horse trading between dealers too after they compare their local demand to their allocations.

where is that rabbit's foot......

Zhao

I doubt there is much horse trading between dealerships going on for allocations given that nothing is hard to sell right now.