So many manual GT3's for sale
08-07-2018, 10:24 AM
#46
Race Director
I wouldn’t hold my breath on a GT3 price drop - PDK or Manual. Not until the 550 HP 9,500 RPM NA 992 is announced!
08-07-2018, 10:25 AM
#47
Good for buyers as this condition will drive over supply. 991.1’s didn’t hit the market this early post launch. It’s 50/50 on PDK and manuals for sale. The winter will be fire sales.
08-07-2018, 11:19 AM
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991.1 still out value them with the 10yr warranty, that will quickly become a large factor in pricing
08-07-2018, 11:37 AM
#50
Nordschleife Master
...and then the game starts anew with the 992s. At that point there will be a new "992 GT3 GT3RS" category, and all the value threads will go away from here! YES!!
08-07-2018, 11:49 AM
#51
Yeah that's another plus.... well both types of transmissions will have advantages and disadvantages so it's all good. I'm almost at 5k miles now on my GT3 and every mile is just as fun than all my manual cars' miles put together.
I'm not surprised of all the GT3.2 cars for sale... but we knew this was gonna happen with so many flippers out there. Heck I have 2 friends that are already flipping theirs.... one hardly drove his and he barely broke even, and wondered why... lol. Told him "you're late in the game" and "you shoulda done this many months ago" so I hope lessons learned there for him.
This car deserves to be driven.... it's ashame.
I'm not surprised of all the GT3.2 cars for sale... but we knew this was gonna happen with so many flippers out there. Heck I have 2 friends that are already flipping theirs.... one hardly drove his and he barely broke even, and wondered why... lol. Told him "you're late in the game" and "you shoulda done this many months ago" so I hope lessons learned there for him.
This car deserves to be driven.... it's ashame.
08-07-2018, 12:46 PM
#53
Flipping cars are for guys with more $$$ than brain. I can take $180k and just put it in Microsoft stock and gain $18,000 per year with very little effort or cash out at $360,000 in about 8-9 years.
Yes, I am also in the market for a GT3 manual and will drive the crap out of it.
Yes, I am also in the market for a GT3 manual and will drive the crap out of it.
08-07-2018, 04:13 PM
#55
Intermediate
There are quite a few people out there who got GT3's thinking that they had a while before the RS and then got earlier allocations then planned so have not had them long
08-07-2018, 04:42 PM
#56
Three Wheelin'
Flipping cars will go away once auto loan rates go up again. Right now people are borrowing money and driving cars at a minimal loss and keep trading them in. Once rates go up to 6 percent again, people will think twice. No smart person wants to dump 200k cash into a car for a potential to flip it.
08-07-2018, 04:53 PM
#57
Instructor
I feel very much the same way. When I pull away I switch it to manual mode without thinking. I don't miss having the left foot involved, I still feel in control of the engine. I grew up driving manuals but PDK just feels right to me.
To each their own though -- I love the fact that manual came back in .2, give people choice.
To each their own though -- I love the fact that manual came back in .2, give people choice.
Anyway I love the manual... but heck, 3 of my other cars are all manuals so I purposely chose the PDK. I guess I got spoiled a bit when I had my Macan Turbo and I truly enjoyed the PDK's fast shifts and now even much more so in the PDK-S mode on the GT3. Almost all the time I am manually shifting my GT3 while in PDK-S mode. Doesn't matter neither on speed since it's just as fun on city streets too IMO... and when the road opens then that grin just widens up even more.
Sure the manuals are involving and requires more articulation.... but the PDK-S is just as sublime. I climb in my GT4 or GT350R or even the Miata and I fully enjoy rowing the gears... then I climb in the GT3 and the feeling is just as ecstatic, adrenaline-full. I still have control of what gear I want to be in and what rpm level plus when I want to upshift or downshift... and I still have to focus no matter what. It's not watered down to me... but that's my opinion and this manual/PDK debate will be endless and all subjective anyway.
Just be glad we (you, me, us...) are able to enjoy the new 4.0 in this .2 GT3 because, as I have said it elsewhere, that's the true winner and that's what we're all really paying a lot of moolah for... be glad WE ALL have choices. Just pick your poison and enjoy it.
Sure the manuals are involving and requires more articulation.... but the PDK-S is just as sublime. I climb in my GT4 or GT350R or even the Miata and I fully enjoy rowing the gears... then I climb in the GT3 and the feeling is just as ecstatic, adrenaline-full. I still have control of what gear I want to be in and what rpm level plus when I want to upshift or downshift... and I still have to focus no matter what. It's not watered down to me... but that's my opinion and this manual/PDK debate will be endless and all subjective anyway.
Just be glad we (you, me, us...) are able to enjoy the new 4.0 in this .2 GT3 because, as I have said it elsewhere, that's the true winner and that's what we're all really paying a lot of moolah for... be glad WE ALL have choices. Just pick your poison and enjoy it.
08-07-2018, 05:14 PM
#59
Race Director
I feel very much the same way. When I pull away I switch it to manual mode without thinking. I don't miss having the left foot involved, I still feel in control of the engine. I grew up driving manuals but PDK just feels right to me.
To each their own though -- I love the fact that manual came back in .2, give people choice.
To each their own though -- I love the fact that manual came back in .2, give people choice.
08-07-2018, 05:17 PM
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