peterp

Hey man, you better sell that soon. I've been scrutinizing the market, and I've noticed that most 996's tend to take a value hit as soon as they pass 500,000 miles

What can I say? The market is fickle.

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bdronsick

Ironically your observation isn't even true for 964. 200K miles?? No probelmo Singer bids $120K

plpete84

Something tells me that the owner of this car doesn't give a flying you know what about the market. Too busy enjoying the driving experience I drove an BMW M4 the other day on some nice WA mountain roads. Very fast but made me miss my 996 even more.

peterp

I hope said owner and everyone else realizes I was joking with that statement (I'll add a smiley, though it seemed a bit superfluous as I was typing it)

plpete84

It's all fun and jokes until you realize that the engine has seen noting but Mobil1 0w40 hah!

Boff

As an F80 M3 owner, I totally get this. Wonderful car, but for driving fun it’s the 996 10 times out of 10.

Sirenty

As a fellow F80 owner, also agree. I love mine. Great daily and family outing mobile. But it sits when it’s solo driving time and would be the first car to go.

3/98 911 coupe

yeah the 4.0 broke with less than 20,000 miles,my point was t to his was supposed to be a street legal race car and apparently it broke the throttle piece by being driven hard.
He also has a maclaren. By the way those throw rods thru the block and cost more than $60k to fix. We are doing BBQ this weekend Saturday for the college football games (A&M vs Bama, Texas Tech vs TCU), the wilder vs fury fight, and then Sunday for the cowboys vs giants game pictures to come.

3/98 911 coupe

To me this has value. I’ll say my cars value is $25k but I drive it as much as I can. Now, I met this guy, oriental surgeon, he goes by John, he has a Carrera GT, a 911R, a speedster
and a widow maker. He drives all of them, takes them to cars and coffee and he tracks all of them too. I’m pretty sure he worries about values but enjoys the hell out of his cars. I have posted pictures of the 911R, the 930 and the Carrera Gt here before.

GC996

Remember when nobody wanted a 964?!

Boff

With only the lack of rear cupholders or armrest keeping it from perfection.

bdronsick

Remember when everyone hated the 964?? You couldn't give them away at one point. The harder 911's fall, the bigger they will be. I don't think 996's fell as low as 964's, but they were definitely hated as much or more. Definitely for far longer, that's for sure.

Capt. Obvious

I passed on a 964 that was very clean but with "higher" (170k) mileage about ten years ago for $13k and it's one of the great car regrets of my life.

bdronsick

That hurts, I think a lot of us have a lot of 964 regret;prob why I have too many 996's

peterp

Can you though?