GT3RS Pricing
01-20-2011, 02:23 PM
#31
Nobody other than the CEO of Porsche (or VW?) when he puts ink to paper and presumably that's after the board gives an up or down vote -- no doubt this is all now set in motion as part of their end-of-life for the 997 -- but it seems like this 4.0 RS rumor is one rumor that has become more "substantive."
If history repeats, we'll get new news around the middle of the year and the car will be a mystery to the dealers until it appears as something they can order, probably without any details or order guide. Then it arrives unceremoniously sometime in the fall (autumn) in the USA, just in time to be of sweet FA use to track drivers. Still, some lucky, cashed-up customers will get one (presumably priced somewhere midway between the old 3.8 and the old GT2 RS) and some dealers will have phantom customers so they can order horribly overladen froufrou abominations that will haunt eBay for the next couple of decades.
The more I think about the 4.0RS and the GT2 RS, the more to 3.6 and 3.8 RS's stand out as excellent cars.
If history repeats, we'll get new news around the middle of the year and the car will be a mystery to the dealers until it appears as something they can order, probably without any details or order guide. Then it arrives unceremoniously sometime in the fall (autumn) in the USA, just in time to be of sweet FA use to track drivers. Still, some lucky, cashed-up customers will get one (presumably priced somewhere midway between the old 3.8 and the old GT2 RS) and some dealers will have phantom customers so they can order horribly overladen froufrou abominations that will haunt eBay for the next couple of decades.
The more I think about the 4.0RS and the GT2 RS, the more to 3.6 and 3.8 RS's stand out as excellent cars.
01-20-2011, 03:34 PM
#33
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If it exists I think it is a GT3RS maybe with 4.0 and with all the bolt on suspension and low weight cool stuff and mandatory options for $180-210K.
It will make my crazy expensive RS seem like a bargain
They can probably get away with it without 4.0..
It will make my crazy expensive RS seem like a bargain
They can probably get away with it without 4.0..
01-20-2011, 07:13 PM
#35
An orange/black one with ceramics and 10K miles. I imagine quite a few have already changed hands under six figures when there's some miles on the clock. With only three months of warranty up its sleeve, you'd want to consider a CPO premium from a dealer and get those rotors inspected. : )
http://exotic-classics.ebizautos.com...d-6361262.html
http://exotic-classics.ebizautos.com...d-6361262.html
01-20-2011, 08:47 PM
#36
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We all have our own way of walking in circles until we're comfortable to lie down in the same bed. The duration of ownership is "rationalization" -- not rational or rationale. The idea of "amortizing" the capital outlay over the duration of ownership ignores the cost of opportunity on that capital. Own the car for a day or a decade, the capital is destroyed as the ink dries. We're in rare, almost unique, market conditions of impossibly low interest rates and low prices, depressed by shear lack of demand and still some "distressed" sellers.
My point to the OP is that if he is willing to pounce on what is available in the used market, then go for it. The emotional side of buying new costs a lot more, so to me it only makes sense if you're going to enjoy spending the extra $ over a substantial amount of time.
01-21-2011, 03:10 AM
#37
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01-21-2011, 08:48 AM
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