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Originally Posted by husker boxster
GT3s and Twin Turbos are in a rent district that I don't belong, so I don't keep up on all their stratospheric pricing. Was there a 997 GT3 and a GT3 RS 4.0? I thought the RS 4.0 was 200 large. If the new 991 GT3 is the same as the RS 4.0, isn't $160K a "deal"?
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Good point. But the RS 4.0 is like $230K'ish and they go fast due to only making like 600 or something... and they might be the last to have a manual so they could hold value or maybe they'll collapse in price since most GT3 buyers just chase after the latest and greatest GT3. I guess it depends how badly the deep-pocket wants to row his own gears, pay up for the old thing or get a "bargain" on the new.
Either way I'm not sure if there enough purists to hold up the pricing of all the GT3 variants. Still a mass produced car at the end of the day...
By the way, 997 Turbo prices are falling fast. I've seen a few dip into the $70K's. That's a car that was $120K like 3 years ago. Turbo depreciation is brutal.
The 2012 991's aren't faring much better. They're dropping 20-30% below sticker already. Porsche went totally nuts on their pricing thanks to all these new Chinese and Brazilian billionaires. Sucks for the existing owners who don't switch $100K cars like these billionaires switch socks.
p.s.
While on the topic of track oriented activities, car insurance companies in sports car hotbed states like CA and FL have been sending out some new provisions in their coverage. Namely dropping any manner of high performance driving activity from their coverage, as in no more autocross 'instruction' (vs racing) or DE's. And not surprisingly track day insurance companies are all set to bend everyone over the barrell. Their rates are apparently somewhere between heroic and astounding.
Race em' while you still can...
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