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Originally Posted by Tomikaze
I’ll take the cayman s sport when you are ready to sell  seriously.... |
Thanks TK. I will put you in the queue - you're somewhere around 4th in line, seriously. Next mo will be the 5th anniversary of my purchase. Initially had it bought for $44K, then the owner got remorse and pulled out. Thankfully he had discovered at the time of our first contact that his wife was pregnant. 3 mo later he contacted me to see if I was still interested (think the impending bundle of joy influenced the 2nd contact). I certainly was, so he sold it to me for $42K. I left a 3 hr vapor trail to his house to get the car bought before he changed his mind again.
I mention the price because there was a current thread on P-9 following the sale of another 08 Signal Green CSS. Turns out it was in Ames, IA, which is where I bought mine. It sold for $41K. Had 26K mi vs my current 54K, but not bad depreciation for 5 yrs. The green and orange CSS's have a premium for their color, but am surprised by how large that premium is over regular CS's. In that same thread, an orange CSS appeared and quickly sold for $40K.
Someone ahead of you in the queue is a salesman at Porsche of Omaha. He covets my CSS. Anytime there is a new model intro, he makes me some very good trade-in offers. I could have traded both my cars straight up for 997.1 (which was an OK deal) or a 981 Spyder (now that was a deal). But I like the versatility of having a coupe and conv and don't want to lose that with 1 car.
I have no plans of getting rid of either car for a long time, so don't expect any PM's anytime soon. Next mo is also the 10th anniv of buying my LE. Prior to either car, I generally sold my cars after 4 yrs.
Here's Sydney at Indy back in Aug.
