"Poor_Sh" (ar4x)
04/24/2019 at 10:12 • Filed to: None
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"Poor_Sh" (ar4x)
04/24/2019 at 10:12 • Filed to: None | 1
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So if you haven’t read, Porsche is likely going to make the next generation Cayman/Boxter hybrid and then electric. I don’t know if that means no more ICE-only but it seems like it.
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With a lot of people already unhappy with the switch to the turbo 4-cyl for these cars, and lamenting the loss of the 6, will the future electrification make my 981 special? Will it be like the last air-cooled 911s?
Personally I'm not going to make it a museum piece hoping it appreciates or something. I'm still going to drive the piss out of it. But it's still interesting to me because I love this car and want to keep it but I thought at least I could get a newer one if I needed to. Now I'm not so sure I would.
adamftw
> Poor_Sh
04/24/2019 at 10:20 |
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If anyone could tell this sort of stuff for sure, that person would be rich.
Super rare
muscle cars worth $150k now sold for $2k in the late 70s and were cheap through the 90s
No one thought you’d be able to sell a rust free 250k mile 1985 Toyota pickup for $10k even 3-4 years ago
911s are leveling off a bit (at least it seems like it) but again, driver air cooled 911s were $8-10k all day ten years ago.
Drive it and enjoy it. If you can make money off it eventually, great. If not, who cares.
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Poor_Sh
04/24/2019 at 10:27 |
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I don’t worry about range anxiety as much with Electric cars as they seem to be increasing in range capacity relatively quickly. It’s the ability to charge up quickly and when needed that concerns me. At least here in North America, charging stations are few and far between (if they exist at all) and having to wait for 20-30 minutes for a decent partial charge instead of 5 for a full tank of gas would be a bit of a pain still...
I worry with electric cars that cars will stagnate in some ways....engines are all different - mounting angle, number of spark plugs, injection type, piston orientation, intake and exhaust systems, etc, etc. Electric motors are largely exactly the same and make roughly the same noise. That’s an entire aspect of the character of the car that will, in a way, just disappear...no more soulful Italian V12 exhaust notes, no more manic supercharger whines, no more Boxer grumbles......just whine/whirr. Unless they start using fake ‘engine notes’ on electric cars, which will just be.....I don’t know. Lame and artificial?
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Poor_Sh
> adamftw
04/24/2019 at 10:29 |
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I agree wholeheartedly, and did mention I’m not going to baby the thing or ever expect to make money from it . But it’s fun to speculate.
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Poor_Sh
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
04/24/2019 at 10:32 |
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My other worry is that such a dramatic change in architecture will make parts rare and expensive for even more mainstream cars. Essentially the last generation of cars might just not be feasible to maintain, and with all the tech in them anyway personal maintenance is already at an all time low.
Thomas Donohue
> adamftw
04/24/2019 at 11:14 |
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I often punish myself by going through the Porsche classifieds in my old Panorama magazines.
Two examples from the July 2002 issue that’s on my desk :
1966 911 coupe....Gulf Blue....80k miles, all maintenance and ready to drive or show anywhere. $12,500.
1973 911 Carrera RS 2.7 Euro , recent engine rebuild by Ruf. White with red scripting. $87,000
On the other end of the spectrum was a 2001 911 Carrera for $70,000
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adamftw
> Thomas Donohue
04/24/2019 at 12:12 |
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Yeeeesh. On all 3.
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Thomas Donohue
> adamftw
04/24/2019 at 13:23 |
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One more:
1969 911 GTS factory prototype with rally and race history.
Talk about rare. The one for sale was serial #00 4. Here’s an article on #009
(Oh....he was asking $24,000 for it... )
