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At least it sounds like the prices are coming down. Earlier in the year all the ones on AutoTrader were a minimum of $260k, though they may not have actually sold for that.
The thing is, buyers have the choice of purchasing an item for a price a seller is willing to sell at, or not. There’s nothing more fishy about used cars being sold for more than msrp if the market can support it than new cars gettting sold at deep discounts to Msrp to move them off the lot. Msrp is an arbitrary price set by the manufacturer - maybe it’s too high or maybe it’s too low but it’s not a law.
If you don’t want sellers asking more than msrp for cars which demand will support higher prices are you willing to pay msrp for cars for which there’s little demand? I’ll sell you that brown 996 over there with the red interior for msrp- you can’t have it both ways.
Owners bear the pricing risk both ways. When they buy the car - it could be a dud in which case they’ll take a bath. That’s fair too.
They want to sell one less than the market demands.
Which is good or I would have made a mistake for a car that is used mainly on the street.
I wanted a "new" Normally Aspirated 911 which other than the GT series is no longer available.
But just as I lucked into Al's 993, I lucked into an extremely well optioned 2015 Carrera 4 GTS with a 7-speed manual and a mere 157 kilometers on it. Connected the Durametric; 6.77 hours of engine operating time and zero over-revs in all 6 ranges. Basically a new car. Engine break-in properly done before I had to store it, and having driven it, I made the right choice.
2015 and only 157km ?! Wow ... did they drive it home from the dealer and park it?
The original owner has a slew of cars. He might have bought the GTS to improve his chances of a GT3. According to the dealer, he took delivery of a GT3 Touring.
The original owner has a slew of cars. He might have bought the GTS to improve his chances of a GT3. According to the dealer, he took delivery of a GT3 Touring.
Mark Motors received a few more GT3 and RS allocations recently. All went to local buyers.
My car has arrived ...
Signal Yellow GT3 Touring
Standard Wheels
Front Axle Lift
Big Gas Tank
PCCB
Full Leather
Extended Leather Dash
Extended Leather Door Surfaces
Leather Steering Column Casing
Carbon Buckets
CXX Seats - Houndstooth & Speed Yellow Piping
CXX Stripe on Sides - Grey as per PCCB rotors & Black Porsche script
CXX PTS Headlight Nipples in Signal Yellow
Sun Visors In Alcantara
PDLS headlights
Light Design Pkg.
Auto Dimming Mirrors
Homelink
Smoking Pkg.
Floor Mats
Luggage Net in Passenger Footwell
Standard Black Dials
Standard Anthracite Trim although I think the optional ones were installed
Standard Black Seat Belts
Carbon Illuminated Door Sills
BOSE
Sweet car Chris!! .....once the spoiler lip is attached and the delivery spring spacers are removed it will really POP!!!
Maybe wait until your car is prepped before authorizing any trim changes. I think your optional Anthracite trim pleasantly, albeit subtly, breaks the monochrome dash and door colour scheme of the full leather interior.
The standard anodized black trim does not..
Congrats on the beautiful touring. It does look like you got the lighter trim rather than the darker one that would match the door sills.
Originally Posted by 1Gunner
Sweet car Chris!! .....once the spoiler lip is attached and the delivery spring spacers are removed it will really POP!!!
Maybe wait until your car is prepped before authorizing any trim changes. I think your optional Anthracite trim pleasantly, albeit subtly, breaks the monochrome dash and door colour scheme of the full leather interior.
The standard anodized black trim does not..
Originally Posted by SToronto
That is stunning. Signal Yellow is awesome! Congratulations!
Originally Posted by Rampage
Congrats! That is one heck of an awesome spec - great choices there, especially the CXX options inside. Touring pack in silver just looks so good.
Originally Posted by Overdraft
Chris - magnificent car....signal yellow is clutch!
Thank you everyone. I'm pretty happy about it. I think it turned out really well. Better than expected actually. I was a little nervous doing Signal Yellow without a wing. I intentionally kept the interior relatively plain - no yellow vents etc. - so the piping, houndstooth and carbon on the seats would stand out better. I was looking for a timeless car. Sometimes less is more.
NS2 Media helped me with some renderings and consultations with Nathan at Porsche Exclusive, and of course Mike McNeely at Mark Motors, made this tied for the best vehicle purchase (along with a recent F150 company purchase from Jim Hoddinott at Kanata Ford) I've ever had. Really pleasant.
08-31-2018, 08:41 AM
