Tuesday 29th November 2016

'New' Porsche Carrera GT: Spotted

Well it's unregistered and has 71 miles, so it's as close to new as you'll get!

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The Porsche Carrera GT is a car that's enjoyed its fair share of ups and downs since launch. Back in 2004 the world's media loved its savage V10, its manual gearbox and its rather more purist ethos when compared with the McLaren-Mercedes.

Still an astonishingly pretty car

Amazingly though (compared to modern limited run cars at least) the CGT did depreciate from its c.£300K launch price, to a point where cars were once available at around £200,000. Values then picked up, but remained at around £300,000 for a long time. An unfairly long time, it could be argued, given the car's reputation.

But then the CGT finally gained the recognition it deserved. The introduction of new tyres for it helped, as did the realisation that manual hypercars without turbos weren't going to happen again. As for exactly what the Paul Walker situation did, all suggestions are welcome.

So now entry to a Carrera GT is around £500,000; it looks like a lot when they used to be so much less, but then people are paying that much for a 911 R. In that context the CGT looks remarkable value: a GT3 manual with stripes, or bona fide mid-engined hypercar with a carbon tub and a genuine race derived V10? Exactly. There's another discussion to be had about what each will be worth in a few years, but perhaps we'll do that another time.

Anyway, to this particular Carrera GT. Even in the context of the model, this one really is exceptional. For whatever reason, this unique - Bentley Moonbeam Silver with Austrian Red leather - Carrera GT was never registered back in 2006. It has remained on its delivery mileage (71) for a decade, kept in a climate controlled garage and "moved regularly but never driven on the road." A crying shame to some; a great opportunity for others...

Do you like Austrian Red? You'll need to!

It's clear which side the advert favours, the dealer offering to register the car and then adding "but to us this car should hold pride of place in a discerning collector's portfolio." Certainly there won't be another Carrera GT like this, and we can be fairly sure that its place in the annals of hypercar history is now guaranteed.

Which brings us onto the price: it's a million quid. For some perspective, one of the UK allocated cars with less than 10,000 miles is also now for sale at just under £600K. On the other hand, even a six-figure Carrera GT doesn't look absurd in the context of its contemporaries. No, really. An Enzo will cost you yet more still, for example, with even the most affordabe Koenigsegg currently for sale at £750K with 3,000 miles. And can you imagine the Porsche ever being worth less than this?

It would be very surprising to see this car do anything other than head to another collection and, for this calibre of car, it looks like a great acquisition. But would it be an even greater thing to go and drive? PHer Maxige might have something to say on that...

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PORSCHE CARRERA GT
Engine: 5,733cc, V10
Transmission: 6-speed manual, rear-wheel drive
Power (hp): 620@8,000rpm
Torque (lb ft): 435@5,750rpm
MPG: 16
CO2: 432g/km
First registered: 2006 (unregistered)
Recorded mileage: 71
Price new: £330,000
Price now: £995,000

See the original advert here

[sidesauce]

Strong money but given its provenance/ lack of mileage it'll easily sell for that if not more.

[Chris Stott]

For me, the CGT is the most desirable super/hyper car out there.

What a shame this one is destined to never be driven.

[hondansx]

Cars left to sit have problems, big problems! I wouldn't go near it, but the depressing reality is that it will probably never be tested to see if i am right or wrong.

[Dave Hedgehog]

the want is strong, you can poke your holy trinity, this one for me please

the noise these make

[kambites]

Fabulous thing and definitely in my top few supercars, pity it hasn't been used. However...

Article said:

Still an astonishingly pretty car.

Really? From the side with the roof on it looks like a pickup truck that's been sat on by an elephant to me. Definitely a car I love despite the looks rather than because of them.

[TooMany2cvs]

So for half the money, you can have the exact same car, but which you can actually use and enjoy.

Paying a mill for this isn't buying a CGT for its merits. It's a million quid speculative investment. And I can think of a LOT of better, safer, almost certainly better-returning ways to take a million quid, invest it so that I could happily live without working until the day I die AND have plenty of fun into the bargain.

[daytona111r]

I hopelessly hope someone who is rich enough to not care about the value of this thing buys it and drives the nuts off it. For me it's up there with the f1 and f50 as one of the greatest Hypercars. Epic soundtrack.

[Darran-95030]

It just looks so so dated to me. How anyone would want to pay 500k up to £1 million is beyond me although in this day in ages hardly surprising.

[xRIEx]

article said:

as will a Pagani Zonda F.

"This advert has been withdrawn by PistonHeads"

Nice example.

[EricE]

I can think of a lot of positive adjectives to describe a CGT but "astonishingly pretty" is not on that list.

[Deerfoot]

Darran-95030 said:

It just looks so so dated to me. How anyone would want to pay 500k up to £1 million is beyond me although in this day in ages hardly surprising.

I agree to an extent. However around 6 years ago I heard one being driven through Berlin and it was absolutely fantastic.

Given the frankly silly price of some used Porsche these days I think £500,000 for a CGT is a steal.

P.S. They look a lot better in black.

[Darran-95030]

I thinks its also crazy that people are all just assuming any supercar will be a future investment. I think the only people that have done well are the people that have owned one of these cars for a few years plus and will no doubt get a healthy return if they sell now. Lets not forget that a Ferrari F40 has been 150k and £1 million twice in the last 20 years. Nothing is a certainty. Pre 2007, the house market was on the up and up and then......

[Gandahar]

If I was going to drive it I wouldn't want a low mileage car where the mechanical bits have not been going around as designed for so long.

In the old days these type of cars got driven on the track and that has increased their value. Maybe we will have "driven on the road enthusiastically" to do same for values as this car in the future ...

[GiveItSomeWellie]

Wish I was in a position to afford the car, just so I could put 10k miles on it in 6 months to annoy all the speculators that want it.

Love these, though it would have to be the tan leather option for me, or maybe Black with red interior?

[anniesdad]

Darran-95030 said:

It just looks so so dated to me. How anyone would want to pay 500k up to £1 million is beyond me although in this day in ages hardly surprising.

They are incredibly special. So much to take in, in real life.

Enthusiastic owners perspective evident in this thread below.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

edited: if I had the necessary folding, I'd buy two one to drive and this one to make $$$'s on. It wouldn't surprise me if the person that buys this, already has one.

Edited by anniesdad on Tuesday 29th November 15:50

[Motormatt]

anniesdad said:

Darran-95030 said:

It just looks so so dated to me. How anyone would want to pay 500k up to £1 million is beyond me although in this day in ages hardly surprising.

They are incredibly special. So much to take in, in real life.

Enthusiastic owners perspective evident in this thread below.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

edited: if I had the necessary folding, I'd buy two one to drive and this one to make $$$'s on. It wouldn't surprise me if the person that buys this, already has one.

Edited by anniesdad on Tuesday 29th November 15:50

Agreed, I've seen a couple up close and the engineering detail, fit and finish is just incredible. Photos don't do them justice.

Interesting link below, you'd have to be brave or extremely wealthy to drop this much on a CGT at the moment.

http://community.evo.co.uk/users/Secret-Supercar-O...

[Cheib]

I imagine someone will buy this for its "Unicorn" status trading in their heavily used 2000 mile example they don't drive anyway or someone who already has a CGT will buy this so they can drive the arse off the one they have (and thus suffer depreciation) and keep this as an investment.

Dealer is interesting

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/dealer/8096...

Looking at their website it shows they're the subsidiary of an IT company. My guess is that given the history on PH they're selling cars for a specific owner.

Edited by Cheib on Tuesday 29th November 16:54

[TOOMANYMS]

I know its a bit marmite but these dont see to be ageing well, looks very dated when compared to an SLR

[MrJerv]

They never looked that great in photo's. However in the metal, ideally in black they look fantastic. The sounds... oh the sound... Just amazing.

One of my all time fav's

[Yipper]

Something of a puff-piece...

Has aged badly on the outside, looks awful on the inside, and very twitchy to drive.

But there are not many left with such low miles. And the Rodas / Walker / Furious 7 glamour crash gives the model a cool edge. Should sell fairly easily at a decent price.