Originally Posted by AC SATCO

IN MY OPINION THIS IS ALL MARKETING NONSENSE AND SPECULATION ON ALL ACCOUNTS.

Ultimately in the end EVERYONE who wants an RS and that can afford one will get one. There will just never be a group of customers that will be told they will NEVER get the car. There will just be a hierarchy and a lot of it will just merely affect when you get yours and how much you pay for it.

The wealthiest, most connected, best customers (918 guys) will pay MSRP and get theirs first.

The other wealthy non enthusiasts that just need s h i t to buy all the time and always want something just cause its new or rare or both will also get theirs first but they will pay over the MSRP and they done even care.

whatever is left over from the first round will go to the guys like US with deposits down.

At this point how many people are left in actuality that WANT/NEED/plan on buying this car this car?

Porsche will evaluate all sorts of things at this point. Profitability,availability,demand,production status, resources, their other cars, demand for the assembly line, and on and on and on. Based on this they release some more allocations (if they are even needed). Some will go to showrooms, some dealers might scoop a few up. It all depends. A 2nd run? A 2nd year model 2016/17, or is it 15/16. They will get them out just like the 997.1 RS and 997.2 RS. I mean the guys that really have deposits down and are the #7 spot at thier dealer (is that even real? do they even really want one?) seem like the guys that aren't dying for one anyway or else they would have done more due diligence about one. Anyways, even they will eventually get "the call" a year or two down the road that they can build a car.

But in the end EVERYONE who NEEDS/WANTS one will get one.

The ONLY way this does not happen and there are actually people who just cant get their hands on one no matter what, is if they are Guaranteed to be produced in a Specific # run when introduced as a Special Run of 500 units only and each car is #57 out of #500(for example), in this case ONLY will there be people less connected or not willing to pay astronomically over sticker that will not end up with the car.

MY opinion.

Porsche knows this is crack to us and they giggle at our fear of not getting our drug. Ultimaley they are our drug dealers and they like to make money. Dont worry RS fiends. Well be fine. Just some might not see a Specd car till 2016, that's all.

Originally Posted by poofyo101

#4 at local dealer now. Said highly unlikely that I will get it.

Personally I would agree that there will be enough to go around.

Originally Posted by Nick Yoskin

Me too...they did not say unlikely though. My dealership is hardcore into CUP series and can pull strings thru Porsche's North Amer. Race Division.

How many Porsche dealerships are there USA? If USA is allocated 500-600 then do the math. I personally believe that the dealerships that had a hard time sell GT3 will most like trade off their allocation. They could get a bunch of Macans for 1 RS.

Originally Posted by Whoopsy

You are quite correct there. The pecking order for 918 owners goes by their order#. The early bird has 1st dib over the later people. My 918 is order #192, so that pretty much guaranteed I will have a shot at anything Porsche makes. I have heard rumours of the RS being introduced at Frankfurt next year from one source, and Geneva from another. Cayman GT4 will also be in either of these 2 shows, so I figured someone had the dates confused when they told me. Production run for the RS will start after the GT3 run is finished. With that I figured the car will debut at Geneva. Another part of the rumour is that the whole production run of the RS is spoken for already, between the 918 owners and people on the wait list.

Originally Posted by Whoopsy

Another part of the rumour is that the whole production run of the RS is spoken for already, between the 918 owners and people on the wait list.

Originally Posted by CAlexio

So, situation seems simple. Ask a 918 owner how much overage he wants to purchase an extra RS and then sell it you.

Originally Posted by AC SATCO

Ultimately in the end EVERYONE who wants an RS and that can afford one will get one. There will just never be a group of customers that will be told they will NEVER get the car.

Originally Posted by CAlexio

So, situation seems simple. Ask a 918 owner how much overage he wants to purchase an extra RS and then sell it you.

Originally Posted by SamFromTX

There are about 200+ dealerships in the US. GT3/RS allocations are not divided equally but rather on historical sales volumes of 911s. Some delaerships will get no RS allocations and large volume ones will get 6-7. My dealer gets 1.7% of 991 allocations.

Originally Posted by <3mph

Might prove to be true in the US, but based on the UK GT3 experience (browse through the earlier PH posts, where many were turned away, their deposits returned, and only about 150 cars ultimately produced) I can imagine a scenario where some markets are provided with limited supply. I am quite certain that Canada, for one, will see a very few cars. And already the UK demand appears high enough to outstrip supply. There may be some disappointed customers in such markets, but you are right in that most of these will probably have been less committed to the RS in the first place.



I thought this was verboten?

Originally Posted by SamFromTX

There are about 200+ dealerships in the US. GT3/RS allocations are not divided equally but rather on historical sales volumes of 911s. Some delaerships will get no RS allocations and large volume ones will get 6-7. My dealer gets 1.7% of 991 allocations.