Drifting

great post. I think you are dead on with this.

Beyond the track specific hardening, suspension work, lower gearing, improved engine power, and vastly improved PDK........part of the excitement for the 991 GT3 is its relatively rarity, and that owning a GT3 buys you membership in a select group of Porsche true sports car enthusiasts.....compared to just buying a regular 911, that anyone can buy any day of the week, in any town with over 200,000 population in the USA.

This exclusivity is a big reason why GT3 values hold up better over time compared to regular 911s and 911 turbos.

I love everything else about the 991 GT3, but knowing that I would take much less of a depreciation hit, than the guys buying turbos and regular 911s, made my decision much easier to pull the trigger on a GT3.

I know it's selfish, but I'm very happy that that 991 GT3 production will be stopped for 18-24 months as of Feb 2015, if the rumors are true.
GT3 depreciation will be limited. This is just as useful as the compensation checks that Porsche will be sending out.

Haku

Excuse me but don't shoot the messengers mate! I hope I have not misunderstood you.

mooty

mike is one of the good one's i trust at stead.
dont be so sure that if you ordered one it's msrp. until the car is IN YOUR garage, i trust no one.

mooty

correct, RS and GT3 value dont impact one another that much. look at history. furthermore, 991 version, the price delta will be even bigger.

Tacet-Conundrum

There wasn't the buy an 918 and get an RS allocation in the mix with the last RS, but I feel that dealers spreading the idea of their will be a limited quantity of the 997.2 RS helped to cause the "little run" on .2 GT3 RS's that happened. The speculation that production was going to be limited caused some to over-pay for their RS. At this moment in time it doesn't look that bad on a strictly return on sale of a lower mileage RS, talking less or at 10K miles - for at the dealer level, channel, they are asking MSRP about. But that would never have happened if the stop sale never happened!

Since Porsche is owned by VW now, as it was when the .2 RS came out, they, Porsche, more than likely will produce enough 991 GT3 RS's to satisfy demand. As for starting back up Vanilla GT3 production again who knows. I would like to think they will because for one I don't have an allocation. And even though I believe they will build enough RS's to go around no one outside of Porsche production and planning can answer that question.

Besides, beyond a very small number of examples, Porsche is not like Ferrari in the Idea of build One less than! With any of the 145 versions of any 997.1 and 997.2 911 that was built only the Platinum, what was production just 3 (?), and the Speedster, what was total production on that model - less than 200 (could be way off, but it wasn't for US sale anyway), they for the most part don't do the limited edition models. And for that matter does anyone know if they finally sold out all of 918 production yet?

Bottom line hysteria of limited RS production will cause them to be sold at a Premium to most buyers. Only time will tell if "Enough" are produced to satisfy total demand, and/or then some. That and if they will just stop production of the non RS completely or not.

And then, before the RS arrives, we can also see what the 997 GT3 marketS will do? Hold steady or eventually deflated to pre stop sale values. Only time will tell...

Jimmy-D

They have not sold out of the 918 yet. Actually I heard they are really trying to find buyers

0Q991

Yeah--similar to situation when the CGT was in production.

But, in the end, they sold all of them and value held up nicely also as a bonus. Part of it is bc Porsche is making 918, not 375 or 399 like McLaren and Ferrari. And they will eventually sell out, make their money, AND all / most of the R&D will earn a multiple as it trickles down to the rest of the model lines.

Tacet-Conundrum

I'm wrong about the 997.2 Speedster Porsche sold them in the US right?!

What was the name of the limited production 997.2 that had the little "Gurney Bubbles" on the roof that was not imported tp the US?

Zucc

The car you are thinking about is the "Sport Classic Carrera". There are only 4 in the US at this time.

CAlexio

That car has the holy grail of tails.. Just unbolt the wing and you'll be left with a Perfect ducktail..

montoya

In the last 15 years has Porsche ever built a GT3 RS without the base model GT3? This makes no sense from a manufacturing operations point of view- in other words stop production of the volume model to focus on the limited production model. Even if the main difference between the GT3 and RS and the base 911 is really just the powertrain, it seems improbable to me and will just drive up Porsche's cost on all the RS they sell.

MaxLTV

Congrats! Looking forward to seeing it. Are you going to track it as well or just street drive?

MaxLTV

For other models, did you look at increases between back-to-back model years or with the same 3.5 year gap GT3 had? I think the gap in production years can explain much of the bigger increase for GT3. Also, the 991 GT3 is really nicely equipped in base version. I've just compared it to a base 911 (not S) optioned to well over $100K, and my almost base GT3 was still more nicely equipped. I don't know if the same was true for previous generation, but it's good value in my view.

24Chromium

It will be my daily driver. Yes, I have a Cup car for the track- that I love dearly - but, I'm sure at some point the new one will be stomping around Thunderhill at least once.

Tacet-Conundrum

You are absolutely right, I was thinking of the base MSRP of the 997.2 GT3 RS was the same base MSRP of the Turbo. I got the prices flip flopped. Need a refresher course.