JPMD

Very well said

STG

New articles...

http://www.automobilemag.com/feature...nned-for-2016/

http://www.worldcarfans.com/11511111...manual-gearbox

GreenLantern

Sadly, the Automobile Mag one, which is written as if it's fact based, is just regurgitated internet rumors.

Yeah. No.

Not in the system yet, not even for 918 VIP's. Also, 600 worldwide? Good luck getting that past the 918 VIP's in North America (600 worldwide means we won't get enough in the US to cover all the VIP's, at the minimum).

anonymous918

I been told that 300 918 cars got sold in USA. out of those i'd guess around 20% already exchanged hands, making the remaining VIP-eligible number 240ish. out of that number i'd guess 20% won't care about 911R making number of eligible 918 VIP participants who care somewhere around 200. if that is the number of 911R cars that will end up in USA, you right, vast majority of it will go 918 owners. if the number is higher and the car is as hot as they say it is, there will be a bloodbath.

GreenLantern

+1

Bloodbath, indeed.

I have it on good authority that 297 918's came to the US. I've been tracking all the "public" sales, and for the most part, the original owners sat on their 918's for the minimum holding period of 6 months. This qualifies them for 3 years of VIP benefits, despite no longer owning the cars. The chance of a bloodbath if they only make 600 of *any* limited edition Porsche is high... unless they send a decent chunk of those 600 to the US.

Based on history, with respect to the 997.2 GT2 RS (500) and the 997.2 GT3 RS 4.0 (600), that wasn't the case. I believe we got roughly 150 RS 4.0's to the US.

STG

What if NONE make it to the US??? Hmmmm.. A possibility. That would solve that problem.

GreenLantern

Haha.

That's certainly a possibility.

I really wanted a 997.2 Sport Classic. I know we have some in the US, imported, some through a *lot* of trouble (in fact, some RL'ers have one). I could've grabbed one of those a while ago, but I passed.

Instead, we got the 997.2 Speedster.

STG

They would avoid the "bloodbath" and pissing off the V(FL)IPS or VFLIPS !

GreenLantern

Indeed.

I really hope they take the honorable approach... And produce enough to cover the VIP's + a respectable number of non-918 owning loyalists.

sparkyglenn

I suspect some will come to NA but the more info comes out the more I realize I have zero chance of getting one.

Shame.

The 991.2 cars going turbo is completely unpalatable. If I wanted a turbo car I'd get an M3/M4, which are also unpalatable.

STG

Then you have Canada, etc.. How can they spread around so many??

I agree about the 991.2 street 911 turbos, although there is a small fan base building up for them on the 991 board. Total garbage in my opinion. They're worried about mid range torque on the freeway and getting beat by a M whatever.

wtdoom

I'm afraid to say there is not one car per 918 owner . There is a maximum of 500/600 cars and there's no conformation the car will go to the USA .
Sorry to bearer of bad news .

GreenLantern

Not coming to the US at all will definitely solve the 918 VIP problem of not sending enough allocs to the US to cover the VIP's.

If that happens, it will be sad, but oh well. Better than a bloodbath on PCNA's hands.

That would also explain how/why it isn't in the system yet.

928cs

Interesting, there are two cars pictured:
- LB-Y 3026 with a CS package
- LB-Y 3028 without CS package

Oldmxnut

Im more inclined to think the 600 is USA only out of 900 total world wide. Close enough to sales ratios per geography...