theiceman

I cant you believe you offered him only slightly less and he didn't take it !!!

Imo000

How dare he!!!

Sure as $hit Porsche knows how to charge more for less by cutting the roof off and calling it a Spyder.

Hyper911

its a rare car, they are going for that. Supply and demand.

cstyles

Porsche Oakville had a white '16 with buckets recently for $149k and it sold within 1 week. Original MSRP $118k. Crazy pricing for non-GT cars but so long as people with lots of $ are willing to pay, that's the price of entry.

GT3 Techno

Wow... that makes me wonder if I should keep this thing ? Better investment than the TSX these days...

Matt Lane

Was kicking back this evening reflecting on all the Porsche Douchery that has seen the nicer new GT cars become unattainable, even to ready cash buyers.

GT4's, optioned to the hilt with rubbish, sold to buyers with no concept of their intended purpose and quickly flipped to the next rube at or above MSRP. I don't know anyone that expects to recoup sales tax (that needs to be paid again on transfer), or a front end wrap, etc. Supply and demand, capitalism, I get it. Crazy - not the seller, but the buyers.

Also seen it before. Markets are high, VIX is low, borrowing is cheap - which is fun while it lasts. Markets correct very quickly, even more so for discretionary items with pricing that didn't make sense to start with.

Carry on.

Matt Lane

And to the OP, this is not about you or your car (gorgeous!) - just observations on the reality of the current market and Porsche's chosen marketing strategy to screw it's longest standing supporters.

GLWS - beautiful car.

GT3 Techno

What else is new ?

Matt Lane

Yup!

Hyper911

Spyders are considered GT cars. Thats what they told me anyway.

They also seem to not like the flipping either, but could be more marketing,
http://www.autofocus.ca/news-events/...cting-its-cars

GT3 Techno

Fact is that dealers are showing may be 30 used GT3 RS in their pre-owned inventory but you can probably count the available Spyders on the fingers of one hand. May be the new shifter GT3 is the reason for this but Spyder owners stick to them much more.

moab

yup, take a look at the Pfaff pre-owned inventory. I lost track counting the GT cars they have for sale. It's already July. How many people are going to be itching to buy an RS in November, especially at the ludicrous prices they are asking. When you control the available inventory, you can of course set the asking price, but there are only so many fools out there.

Hyper911

pricing on the gt3's are nuts for sure!

theiceman

End of the day they want to make money. They would sell long standing customers down the river in a second if it pleased the shareholders.

cstyles

Spyders are most certainly not GT cars. Not developed or built by Preuninger and his team, no GT brakes, no GT front axle, no GT custom rear suspension, no GT moniker - all of which the Cayman GT4 has. The salesman​ spewing that crap is as bad as porsche saying they are going to blacklist people flipping their cars yet their own dealer network is the biggest offender!