Window Shopping Questions

"lorem ipsum" (nothing123456789) 08/10/2015 at 15:37 • Filed to: Porsche, 911, Tavarish, 997, 993, Used cars

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Like most of you reading this, I spend a lot of my free (and not-so-free) time browsing the internet in search of bitchin’ car deals. Lately, my time has been consumed with 1970s and ‘80s Chevy pickups, ‘60s muscle cars, Volvo C70 coupes (not even really sure why I like these), and, of course, 911s.

I’ve been really intrigued by the idea of an old 911 for a while now. There’s something very appealing to me about a small, sporty car that seems to be fairly reliable as well as relatively practical. Then, there’s the lack of life-threatening power outputs. Being as it is that I have a hard enough time staying in control of anything more than, oh, 160-odd hp, the idea of a “slow” sports car makes sense just in terms of self-preservation. Sure, my pupils dilate alarmingly whenever someone nearby says “Hellcat” (and there’s probably some unnoticed drool coming out my mouth a la Rottweiler with rabies), but we all know I’d be upside down in the middle of Mordor after five minutes in that thing. I guess it goes back to the whole “drive a slow car fast” sort of thing.

At any rate, I’ve been browsing autotempest.com for 993s, and can’t seem to figure out why in the ever-loving fuck a 20-year-old Porsche costs near as makes no difference $200,000. I get that it’s the last of the air-cooled 911s, but it seems to me that the price is greatly inflated on these— especially when you consider that you could buy, for that money, a brand new GT3 RS . And have something left over for whatever it is Porsche-owners buy— something shiny for their mistress, or a penis pump.

This brings me onto my latest discovery: a 2006 911 C2S with 26k on the clock, a 6MT, and the Sport Chrono pack for a $47,500 BIN.

This is sort of a Tavarish question, but I honestly think I’m missing something here. What the hell is the deal with !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! listing? I’ve heard the old “if it’s too good to be true...”, but I genuinely want someone to buy it, and then let me drive it as a “thank you for finding this bitchin’ deal for me, Henry”. So, Porsche-philes and serial cheaters, tell me— what’s wrong with this 997, and with 911 prices in general?

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > lorem ipsum 08/10/2015 at 15:41

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There’s a 993 Carrera 4s with a supercharger kit for sale in Norway, less than 100k $.

DrScientist > lorem ipsum 08/10/2015 at 15:45

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the air-cooled/water-cooled debate.

there is no rhyme or reason to it. or maybe there is. maybe there’s a department at an investment back on wall street somewhere developing models to predict the trajectories of the prices on these things. but i digress.

anyway, as far as 200k for a 993 vs 200k for a 991 gt3rs. i suppose its similar to 100k for a 60’s camaro vs 40k for a brand new camaro. i personally think the 993 is the better value looking at all of those numbers.

AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC > lorem ipsum 08/10/2015 at 17:45

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In my opinion it has a lot to do with the weird past two generations thing for German cars. The current gen is the 991 and then you have the 997 and 996. Those are the previous two generations and nobody has seemed to care about them (minus a few special editions like the GT3RS 4.0 and 996 GT2). Same story goes for BMWs like the current depreciation on the e46 and e9x M3s.

My theory is people just love having fun cars and then when a car hits the right price they’ll buy it and usually these cars are very Jalop/enthusiast oriented cars so the market takes notice. When people start buying them up because they can the market becomes a seller’s market and prices go up. Then when they go into the stratosphere people start compromising and start preying on the next newest generation. Then those prices go up and the cycle continues.

911s also carry racing pedigree and air-cooled / water-cooled mystique about them as well which is also helping keep their prices high.