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Originally Posted by Jim Rockford
Don't think a survival rate curve applies to Porches. Isn't it some inconceivably large percentage of all Porches ever made still being on road today?....
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Originally Posted by Fyeganeh
Porsches die just like every car. The only reason there are so many surviving as compared to made is because they are growing the number made each year so fast. On the other hand the large companies are shrinking or not growing that fast....
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As Mark Twain said, there are 3 types of liars - liars, damn liars and statisticians.
Whenever I hear one of the car companies - Subaru, Volvo, Land Rover, etc., advertise that X% of their cars built in the last Y years are still on the road, I wonder what the numbers are by year. Because likely 85% of their cars were built in the last 5 years and 85% of those cars are still on the road. Making the % of cars older than 5 years that are still on the road largely irrelevant.
Some of us are old enough to have been around when one of those Ferraris that now sell for millions or more could be had for $25,000 or even less. And we didn't have the money then, because that was a lot of money then!
Some day there will be some Boxsters that are worth some big money. But it will be hard for anyone to be making money on those Boxsters whatever the price ultimately is. The others are right who say buy it to enjoy and don't look at it as an investment.