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Old 08-06-2016, 10:53 AM
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Default Car I have a deposit on. Opinions on purchase?

Posted this on Macan forum, but wanted some more feedback here. Car is being sold as new with full warranty. Has everyone option except PCCB and thermal glass. Has every extra leather option and all performance options with Burmester. It is 2 years old now and is a Porsche demo Macan, but only has 300 miles. It is $43,000 off MSRP, and has full four year warranty. Opinions on purchase?

http://m.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicledetails.xhtml?listingId=435212328
Old 08-06-2016, 11:22 AM
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Sure does look like somebody went nuts with the options. For the warranty, I would just confirm the start date. Sometimes a dealer will mark the car as sold in the system, and Porsche will start the warranty.
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The warranty starts when purchased. Car has never had title punched- confirmed with dealer. So full 4 years. Go for it (this is a good deal), or pass (overpriced)? This was a Porsche Exclusive car given to dealership to display to show what options can be ordered to the buyers. No one ordered it that way.
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Looks like it was one of the Porsche Exclusive vehicles built to show off personalization. My local dealer had one built like this too. They were hard to sell because of the price and in many cases, the unusual options/color combinations. If you don't mind the older PCM and like the colors, it is a probably a good deal.
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Originally Posted by Propofoln
The warranty starts when purchased. Car has never had title punched- confirmed with dealer. So full 4 years. Go for it (this is a good deal), or pass (overpriced)? This was a Porsche Exclusive car given to dealership to display to show what options can be ordered to the buyers. No one ordered it that way.
car does not have to be titled for the warranty to get punched. Just gets marked as sold in the dealer system. It's good the dealer has confirmed.
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I'd price out a new one with the exact options on that car that you would want. And then compare the price you get to what they're asking for this and see if the delta is worth it. This Macan has a bunch of totally useless options on it that add zero value to it for 95% of the buyer pool and for which I would place zero value. Air vent slats in leather? Seriously?
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Originally Posted by Archimedes
I'd price out a new one with the exact options on that car that you would want. And then compare the price you get to what they're asking for this and see if the delta is worth it. This Macan has a bunch of totally useless options on it that add zero value to it for 95% of the buyer pool and for which I would place zero value. Air vent slats in leather? Seriously?
I priced out a Turbo I would want/order, and it came out to about $107,000. So about $27,000 more for a 2 year newer one. I agree the air vents in leather are ridiculous, but look nice and make the car totally unique and rare. At that price, you aren't "paying" for it. It's thrown in for free and probably the only Macan in the US with it.
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Look on the bright side, if you ever want to sell it, you can advertise it as "Fully Loaded" and be pretty accurate haha.

I say go for it. I just specced an S and came out to almost 80K without me even going crazy with it.
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I would say go for it with your money but at that price I would choose a great paint to sample and drop many of the options with my money. At the dealer by me there is a 2016 911 turbo loaded sort of like this Macon. They can't sell it. It has been sitting there for about 11 months. $202K. They through out $175K and I still didn't like it.
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Originally Posted by RONGLOS
I would say go for it with your money but at that price I would choose a great paint to sample and drop many of the options with my money. At the dealer by me there is a 2016 911 turbo loaded sort of like this Macon. They can't sell it. It has been sitting there for about 11 months. $202K. They through out $175K and I still didn't like it.
i bought it a month ago. It's awesome and so glad I went through with it. Thx everyone. I have a thread on Macan Forum with pics. Username there is vandit
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Looks to be an INCREDIBLE build, that like an earlier post mention NOBODY would order! Love it!
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Originally Posted by Zeus993
Looks to be an INCREDIBLE build, that like an earlier post mention NOBODY would order! Love it!
of course no one would order all those options, but it's nice to get them for free (so to speak)! Makes the car unique.



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