Originally Posted by Wooly1

My friend is on the list at his local dealer for a 991.2 GT3. The dealer wants 30K over for an allocation. My friend will not pay it. He bought from them a 2011 911 Turbo, a 2014 Cayenne GTS, and a 2016 GT4. Yesterday he just purchased a Macaan Turbo for his wife. The Macaan was a 2017 and the 18’s are just rolling in. Being that it was the end of the model year and the car has depreciated in value, he was offered a discount to take a 2017 over a 2018. After he had paid and completed paperwork, he asked the sales manager,”well are you going to give me a GT3 allocation at MSRP now?” The sales managers response was,”did you pay MSRP for your Macaan?” This is total BS in my opinion. When Apple launches their new iPhone X in a month, people will be drooling and easily willing to pay a 50% to 100% premium to be some of the first to get it. Does Apple jack the price up for the first month to double the retail price? Of course not. They are a first quality brand and they determine what they think is a fair price, and that’s the price...period. While Porsche does not own the dealerships, they can easily control dealer gouging be allocating cars to those dealers that sell at msrp. It would immediately fix the current dealer gouging problem and restore integrity to their brand. But what do I know, I’m just trying to get my “reduced engine power CEL” on my 991.1 GT3 to stop coming on every other week.

Oh and the offending dealer may or may not be Porsche of South Bay in Los Angeles.

Originally Posted by usctrojanGT3

Honestly, your friend should have walked out and not completed the Macan purchase with the response that he got from the sales manager. Unreal.

Originally Posted by SteveFrench

Nah, dude got played. He knew that guy was foaming at the mouth for the car. Do you really think all these "ambassadors" give a **** about you as a person? I don't.

Originally Posted by goin2drt

I find it interesting that the game that is getting a GT3 just has no rules. I think most would be good if they knew what the rules were.

Are the cars at MSRP, are they ADM, are they "market price"? What do you have to do to get "on the list"?

There are examples from people that have never bought a Porsche and get one at MSRP to folks that have bought several cars from the same dealer, built a relationship etc and they can only get one with an ADM.

That is the absurdity of the entire mess. There is no correct way to get that GT3 at MSRP. Just tell folks what they have to do. Buy 1 car, buy 8 cars, buy a race car, send email, offer their first born, what? Then I can make that decision and/or get the hell out of the brand or buy a different car.

Certainly entertaining this thread is.

Originally Posted by longboarder

I hear ya brother. I would find a nice low mileage pre-owned .1 with a spec you like at a dealer and buy it with the negotiated promise you would trade it back in when your .2 at msrp comes in. So at least the SA has an incentive that he/she will make money on you now and then. But if it doesn't happen so what you still have a .1.

Originally Posted by Loess

I've started to track the new GT3 production out of curiosity and it looks like they are building in the order of 15 per day for NA. I don't think they are going to be as rare as some dealers are trying to make it look. VIN's are ranging from 068 to 520 right now so that would be 450 for mostly September if they actually built all of those cars which I'm not able to verify.

Originally Posted by Loess

I've started to track the new GT3 production out of curiosity and it looks like they are building in the order of 15 per day for NA. I don't think they are going to be as rare as some dealers are trying to make it look. VIN's are ranging from 068 to 520 right now so that would be 450 for mostly September if they actually built all of those cars which I'm not able to verify.

Originally Posted by Wooly1

Oh and the offending dealer may or may not be Porsche of South Bay in Los Angeles.

Originally Posted by ajag

Why didn't he get the GT3 MSRP allocation in writing before closing the macan deal?