venom51

I just don't have the personality to drive a jelly bean colored car. It's a bold choice to go with that color.

SToronto

Ruby! I almost spec'd it on my Touring. Great colour.

Loess

I'm still hoping they add the 90L fuel tank option. I'm not sure why this would be available for Europe but not NA.

Has anyone seen what battery is being used? Is it lithium ion?

SToronto

Would think so, it's an option in GT3.

GrantG

Lithium battery is standard on the GT3 - you can option a smaller/lighter version of the Lithium (same technology, just less capacity and weight for more money).

SToronto

Bonus! Didn't realize that.

See any issue with selecting the lesser capacity? Less time to zero when not in use I suppose.

GrantG

Exactly

d00d

Hey pfbz, MacMulkin sells at MSRP with no administration fee.
I'm deep down the list for the Z06, but may switch to the ZR1 when that opens.

Loess

It's just strange I haven't seen any mention of the battery type or size. It's typical Porsche that the lower capacity battery in the GT3 is actually more expensive. Definitely paying more to get less in that case.

Zhao

Looking at those GT3 and GT3 RS numbers, why does Porsche have such a hard on for giving Canada significantly more GT allocations per capita than the US? and also making our GT cars cost less than the US?

Scrappy1972

Probably because Canadian dealers sell more non-GT Porsches per capita than the US.

Regarding pricing, they can't create massive changes to regional pricing from one year to the next in response to sharp swings in exchange rates. Prices in Canada will increase faster than the US until the gap is eventually closed, at which point it could swing in the other direction.

Loess

It's based more on total sales in the market rather than population. Porsche sells 8 or 9 thousand cars in Canada but they don't sell 80 or 90 thousand cars in the US. Also, Canada has historically bought a higher percentage of higher end cars in the market such as AMG and M cars. I think I heard that Canada used to get the highest percentage of AMG cars in the world. Changing market prices is difficult both ways. A few years ago Porsche dropped prices in Canada due to the high CAD and caused a lot of issues with people that bought 6 months earlier.

0-Day

Regarding outsized Canadian Porsche sales - I'm not sure how successful Porsche Corporate has been on cracking down on it, but in recent years, Canadian Porsche sales volumes have been inflated by exporters who get Canadian straw-buyers to order Porsches at retail prices in Canada, and then they export them to Asian markets as grey-market cars. Porsches can be flipped for 50+% profit.to Chinese customers due to tax and currency exchange arbitrage. The Canadian market is a uniquely efficient market to do this arbitrage in because of the favorable exchange rate of the Canadian dollar in recent years and the fact that US built and now EU built Porsches have no import tax in Canada.

Ksdaoski

There's a dealership in middle of nowhere WI that does that...
Like clockwork it appears. Clearly a connection with a friendly CA dealership...not 50% but a good 25% and up.

pfbz

Right, along with a fair number of other dealerships. But any at-MSRP dealership is going to be *years* for a Z06 unless you have already been on the list, for as I said, 12-16 months.

I'm Z06 #12 at a smaller local dealership, same dealer I sourced an at MSRP C8 Z51 from last january (after an 18 month wait), but unlike the top volume vette dealers that get hundreds per year (and lists sometimes thousands long), this one will be lucky to get 5 or 6 a year, which brings us right back to *years*, and that is with a deposit 11 months ago. I didn't keep the C8 Z51, felt the engine was one of the more noticeable weak spots, which is of course addressed in Z06. But deep down, i'm still a Porsche guy no matter how great they make the Corvette.

I'm still hopeful my local 4RS spot will be first year.