986 as a future classic

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There are no more Porsche "classics". Last I checked, there are 1,000 water-cooled Carreras on Autotrader. That's 10 pages, 100 Carreras on each. That's also nuts. The era of near zero interest rates will leave many fossils behind...
Now toss in a pant load of Caymans, three generations of Boxsters, Panameras and Cayennes.
This market is up to its eyeballs in modern era Porsches. Exclusivity? LOL. Ubiquity more like it.

Don't get me wrong, most of the air-cooled Porsches since 1989 would have been in this situation as well. But luckily for them Porsche had yet to master the art of of mating efficient ma$$ production with effective wooing of deep-pocketed buyers. They weren't very good at either. Sometimes I wonder if Porsche had given the 996 round lights and high fenders, so that you could not tell an air-cooled from a water-cooled from the outside, if the 993 and 964's would be remarkable to most Porsche enthusiasts.

So its a bit ironic that way. The Boxster, Cayman, 996/997/991, Pana will never be a classic because Porsche for the first time figured out how to give the public what they wanted and not just a few thousand willing buyers every year. If only 2,000 Boxsters were sold per year and they stopped making them, attrition would have eventually made them classics. But water-cooled Boxsters and Carreras will continue to be made as long at there are wealthy people to buy them, and VW have plans to flood the used pipeline with even more inventory via new models.

The only cars made in the mass production era that could becom valueable are the manual shift Mezger Carreras. The RS cars in particular. Even the regular GT3's were mass produced to a certain degree. A 997 4.0 RS was produced in such low numbers that it might be the only water-cooled era Porsche (aside from the CGT) that could go up in value...so as long the owner never drives it. Which begs the question why buy it in the first place. All other Porsches are wholly disposable, virtually none will recoup their original sitcker prices. The market for used, out of warranty, expensive to maintain and repair German sports cars is not remotely large enough to absorb a decade plus of mass production.