Originally Posted by RS ZWEI View Post
When does the GT3 arrive Mark?

I was in Auckland on the weekend and stopped in at Giltraps and checked out the RS 4.0, what do we think of the 430K asking price?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used...-697882068.htm

What were they new?

Nik. That's the most interesting question of the day!

My question back at you is why would Richard Giltrap and Bill Farmer both choose to sell there 997GT3RS 4.0?

My view is that this car has already become too collectable to use and there in lies the crying shame. $430K is the right price for that car given thats what it would cost to buy one in the UK and import it to New Zealand. $799K is a BS speculative price and a total wast of time even advertising it. One (or one day both) of those cars will end up overseas in the near future I should suspect.

So you walk into Giltraps and front up 430 large. Now you have 1 of 2 (or soon 1 of 1?) irreplaceable collectable Porsches which like a rare piece of pottery you can use only at risk that should you biff it in Turn 1 at HD you can likely never (easily) replace it again! What's the point. Honestly? So you can hang out here with your rare bird and shoot **** with the best of us knowing you have one one-upmanship during a pub version of Top Trumps?

I look at my new GT3 (due into NZ in 3 weeks). It cost ne just over half of that 4.0RS. I can take it to the track (bugger it will miss the SITT but it will be on the NITT) and should the unthinkable happen I can order a new one. I can drive through Europe in winter on super narrow roads, go for 7 hour drives in the mountains of France doubling and in a few occasions tripling the speed limits (on quiet roads in the middle of nowhere for those PC types easily offended) and Im not worrying about my irreplaceable museum piece!

Heres a true story. My nan, shes 91. When she was 40 she bought a dinning suit. Expensive for a working class UK couple. She loved the vase used as an in-store decoration piece on the table and says to the salesamen "will you throw that in if I buy this dinning suit"? He saus sure. Deal is done. For 40 years we have eaten from that table and for 40 years the most hideous multi coloured art Nouveu looking piece of china has sat on it. Nan loves it. Then 8 years ago she sees an identical piece on antique road show. It fetched 10K GBP! She tells dad, he makes a few phone calls and next thing shes being offered 17K for an original Clarence Cliff piece of pottery. Did I say it was hideous? Shes mid 80s and decided to take the money. Good move as today its worth half as much (bubble on pottery had burst).

Isnt that the way it should be? You buy it cause you love it, you get a life time of pleasure out of it and if it turn s out to be worth a mint when you turn 80 then you spend your twilight years in cocaine and young girls LOL!

The people that dont have the wedge dream the dream of ownership, the truly wealthy just buy it, consume it and move onto the next thing. Somewhere in the grey is this bunch here. Guess you have to try these things to have a valid opinion. Ive done it with watches and a lesser degree cars. Not my scene. Might suit those who like Top Trumps and bars tho. Each to their own...would be boring any other way.