by "Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle" (1500sand535)
Published 01/23/2017 at 03:03
by "Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle" (1500sand535)
Published 01/23/2017 at 03:03
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I guess it’s always had it’s fair share of depreciation because it’s a performance luxury car. However, I searched not too long ago and I didn’t see any in the PNW under $40k.
I just ran a quick search and this 2011 Panamera 4 for $40k popped up and it wasn’t even the lowest priced in Washington and Oregon:
https://www.autonation.com/cars/WP0AA2A72BL010989
And nationwide, there are cars under $30,000 but this one at $33,000 looks pretty nice:
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Not that I’ll be running in to buy one but it gives me hope. As ungainly as this thing is from some angles, I’ve always kind of wanted one.
"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus)
01/23/2017 at 08:21, STARS: 2
"MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario)
01/23/2017 at 08:33, STARS: 1
Now that is some high quality photoshopping there
"LOREM IPSUM" (lorem---ipsum)
01/23/2017 at 09:46, STARS: 0
Are manual transmissions even available on the Panamera? I just popped over to CL for fun and looked at about 30 of em, all autos. Sorted price low to high, so once I was in 100 grand plus territory I closed the tab.
I do believe that Ferdinand would be displeased... I know I am.
"Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle" (1500sand535)
01/23/2017 at 11:04, STARS: 0
I don’t know, in my dream world it’s our family car, so auto is okay. If I were shopping for a 911, then there would be no compromise.
"NJAnon" (NJAnon)
01/23/2017 at 18:03, STARS: 0
Well its 6 years about to be 7 years old. so its not depecriation in a negative way. thats just the law of averages. I’d expect luxury vehicles to be no different
(except Aston Martin, those cats are making their stuff out of ambrosia laced with hope apparently :P)
"ZHP Sparky, the 5th" (e30s2k)
04/28/2017 at 17:49, STARS: 0
Late for this party, but just drove by a Panamera getting out of PDX and remembered these existed. In California you couldn’t throw a stone without hitting one, but these aren’t very common in the Portland area. So like you I went to CL and found quite a few newish ones (2011-2014) in the $30-40k range. Almost reaching temptation levels.
A base Panamera with 300HP or so doesn’t sound like too
ridiculous a prospect for a family hauler at $30k? What’s maintenance like on
these things? I’m about 2 years away from my next car change over, might have
to keep these on my radar. That’ll be an epic transition – Chevy Spark (purely
a commuter lease) to a Porsche Panamera.
"Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle" (1500sand535)
04/28/2017 at 18:51, STARS: 1
I’m in Eugene and if it weren’t for international students, I’d probably never see them. That’s funny to hear they are so popular in CA.
I seem to recall someone who worked at a Porsche dealer mentioning that a more basic model probably wouldn’t be so bad, that the turbo models and ones with the air suspension seemed are a little more problematic. The air suspension is a very expensive fix($8,000 I think).
I’d also be curious to know what the Audi A7s reliability is like as it looks good and is depreciating even faster and seems to match up pretty well on paper to the base Panamera 4.
Something in the back of my mind keeps thinking that these are going to go the way of the cayenne and just plummet in price around the 10 year mark.
"ZHP Sparky, the 5th" (e30s2k)
05/01/2017 at 11:04, STARS: 0
Yup exactly. On one side – hey, $30-40k Porsche sedan! On the other, this thing could be worth $5k in 5 years and I don’t want to take that big a depreciation hit dammit.
Something about the A7 just rubs me the wrong way – you hear about how great the driving dynamics are on Panameras…not sure if that’s something the A7s are quite known for, especially with Audi’s reputation for nose-heavy understeering cars.