What is going on with 986 and 996 prices?

[986_inquiry]

Originally Posted by TeamOxford

I'm sure that the Corvette, BMW Z3, and Honda S2000 owners are wondering the same thing about their cars:

10 sports cars under $10,000 - Yahoo! Autos

TO

"produces 217 hp and 192 lb-ft, enough grunt for a 0 to 60 mph romp of less than 7 seconds"

Erh, isn't it closer to 6 seconds?

HowStuffWorks "2000 Porsche Boxster and Porsche Boxster S"
"Porsche pegged the 2000 base Boxster at 6.4 seconds in the benchmark 0-60 dash, a modest 0.3-sec up on the 2.5-liter original. The real-world time was probably more like 5.9,"

disappointed Yahoo added a whole second to the 0-60 time. Thanks Yahoo.