Opo

I wonder how many Turquoise Blue cabriolets were build ? I know there were 7 cabs built in Riviera Blue and 17 coupes , I'm pretty sure there were few than 7 cabs in Turquoise Blue and I only know of 2 of them , Darin Fister and this one that's being for sale .
This letter came with my Riviera Blue cabriolet .
So on this car you are paying for this things
1) LOW MILES
2) RARE COLOR
3) BLACK Interior / sport seats
3) only few built

RodKnock

Rudy, I looked at this Blue Turquoise Cab back in 2008-2009 and passed on it. And I'm kicking myself to this day. Regrets.

The car's locale was Danville/Dublin/San Ramon/Pleasanton CA.

Opo

What!!!!!
Well this makes 3 Turquoise Blue cabs , I wonder if this is the one Darin owns ?

RodKnock

Is Darin's a Tip?

The one above that I looked at was a 6-speed.

1997 turbo s

I think some are cashing out because the bubble is slowly deflating. A lot of low mile, high price cars including about 10 turbo s with varying miles in the market. I personally have trimmed down my collection the past few months.

Opo

You know what , I think it is a tip if I'm not mistaken 😱

goofballdeluxe

Well at least we all know Johnny Irish's home address now

Skwerl

Looks like right now there are 25 cabs and 62 coupes on eBay. However, 34(!!!) of those coupes are Turbos, so removing those, it's 25 cabs to 28 coupes.

RodKnock

I guess my point was that Porsche made about the same amount of a NB Coupes as Cabs. And any pricing differences are purely situational, meaning seller's timing, condition, miles, maintenance, color, etc. are the key variants car to car.

Opo

go pay him a visit and take him out for a cup coffee 😜

u7t2p7

And another 15 or so are "S and 4S's."

Correct; if the "situation" is a coupe, it's simply worth more than a cab.

Here's another way to look at it. If this Turquoise Blue Cab was a Coupe, I would venture to say it would have sold quickly at that price!

Opo

Of course it would of been gone , who can resist a TB coupe. But again there's not that many TB cabs , just like the Mint Green Targa you offered me .
💙💙💙💙

RodKnock

Well that is certainly an opinion I disagree with. Coupes do nothing for me. And the difference in production #'s of each is negligible. And auction results according to Sports Car Magazine says the opposite. But RL members may be a different sample of buyers too.

_snowbird_

Frankly, I don't really care about the price differences between cab vs coupe models. I'm not a collector or investor. I found the car I wanted, and bought it. I was simply explaining what I experienced while shopping for my car.

But let's take a more scientific approach than looking at the number of cars of each type that were newly listed on any SINGLE day. I took a quick look on Autotrader (Canada) for all 993's currently for sale.

Admittedly, the composition of the cars for sale is MUCH different than 12-24mos ago. When I was shopping, there were usually 0-1 Turbos for sale at any given time, and 0-1 widebodies available. Today, of 29 993's for sale 10 are Turbo's (!!!) and 6 are WB models. I think we can agree that Turbos and Widebodies are cashing in on the high demand - more than what you'd historically see.

8 are cabs, 4 are NB coupes, and 1 Targa. So if you ignore the now-abundant TT/WB cars, you see there are 2x more cabs than coupes. If you include the WB coupes in the coupes list, you roughly get your 50/50 split. Ok.

Now on price: the avg cab price is $66.8k (CDN), avg NB coupe is $79k. If you include WB coupes, the avg coupe price increases to $104k.

So, this is pretty consistent with what I originally said. Cabs are generally abundant, and fetch a lower avg price than coupes. Of course, limited edition versions will always be an exception.

...or, maybe I'm just making this all up

RodKnock

So let me get this straight. You're taking asking prices of cars in just Canada? Yep, that's VERY scientific.

Might you suppose that areas where there's more sun might have a greater demand for Cabs? Say for example CA or FL. Also, your "analysis" doesn't account for important elements such as the title, mileage and condition of those cars. So, meh.

Again, I'm looking at auction results from around the world in Keith Martin's Sports Car Magazine. Your looking in Canada, at asking price, and I'm thinking of the rest of the world.

And just for the heck of it, Excellence Magazine lists the range for NB Coupes as 35,000-50,000 and Cabs as $35,000-55,000. Ignoring the prices being low, because the 2014-2015 editon is out of date, the RANGE for the Cab is higher than the Coupe. However, I still believe it's situational and the VALUE difference is overall negligible between the two body styles.