991 GT3 RS increased production numbers

991 GT3 RS increased production numbers

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Prancing Hippo

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229 posts

147 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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I know Porsche decided to produce approximately 300 more RS's a while ago, and more cars got allocated to dealers, however, in the last few weeks, I heard far more would be produced. Has anyone else heard rumours of Porsche increasing 991 GT3RS production numbers by several thousand? I have been told this by several Porsche specialists in Holland and Germany. Could indicate why prices are falling so quickly (in Europe at least) and so many are for sale at the moment. Maybe its just LHD cars that will be produced. Thanks.

Dr S

4,995 posts

225 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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My OPC alone got two more cars allocated in the last few weeks. Looks like a substantial hike in production numbers

GT3cs

1,200 posts

240 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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Was this a UK OPC ?

Slickhillsy

1,772 posts

142 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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Anyone have a rough finger in the air idea of overall numbers built?

rosino

1,346 posts

171 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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I had asked my OPC a while back about this as an existing GT3 owner having missed out on the RS and they had told me no such thing.

Dr S

4,995 posts

225 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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GT3cs said:
Was this a UK OPC ?
nope

MDL111

6,895 posts

176 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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Slickhillsy said:
Anyone have a rough finger in the air idea of overall numbers built?
according to OPC I spoke to recently about 4x as many as of previous model. Many many more than 991 GT3 (also thanks to production stop / engine issues at the time).

Slickhillsy

1,772 posts

142 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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MDL111 said:
Slickhillsy said:
Anyone have a rough finger in the air idea of overall numbers built?
according to OPC I spoke to recently about 4x as many as of previous model. Many many more than 991 GT3 (also thanks to production stop / engine issues at the time).
So whats that now circa 8000 worldwide?

MDL111

6,895 posts

176 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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Slickhillsy said:
MDL111 said:
Slickhillsy said:
Anyone have a rough finger in the air idea of overall numbers built?
according to OPC I spoke to recently about 4x as many as of previous model. Many many more than 991 GT3 (also thanks to production stop / engine issues at the time).
So whats that now circa 8000 worldwide?
would be my guess based on what I read on forums, OPCs have told me etc. no hard facts though
they are awesome cars and in today's market not surprised that they could sell this many.

EDIT:
Looking at mobile.de (quick count)
991 RS c 115 cars for sale
997.2 RS c 32 cars for sale (excluding the 4.0 Rs and the GT2 RS)

that's pretty close to 4x actually

Edited by MDL111 on Thursday 29th September 15:05

Prancing Hippo

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229 posts

147 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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I have heard between 6,000 and 8,000 worldwide. Raises the question, if there are less GT3's, might they not be the 'sensible' purchase if this is true?

Slickhillsy

1,772 posts

142 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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Prancing Hippo said:
if there are less GT3's, might they not be the 'sensible' purchase if this is true?
Errr no! It's an RS we are talking about here wink lol

mdianuk

2,890 posts

170 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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So any signs of an increase in UK production numbers? Interesting that Porsche are now taking this approach I assume to quash premiums or the hype surrounding them.

hondansx

4,562 posts

224 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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If you have to 'justify' an RS with an economic argument then i'd argue it's not a great car to buy. Loads available and the 911R has stolen the headlines.

Me personally? I love manuals, but would take a UV GT3 RS over a 911R all day! I'm not knocking the 911R - i'd love one too - but i fail to see how different it really is from the GT3 and that, actually, it is still too big and grippy to justify the hyperbole.

AL001

831 posts

269 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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If the production numbers for USA are correct (circa 1400 by Dec forecast from reliable source) and they take usual 40%'ish, RS numbers likely to end up c. 3500. I don't expect beyond 4,000 absolute max.

Fokker

3,460 posts

221 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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If this is true and there are a lot for sale suggesting many have been produced, they will just come down into the 100k's.
It'll be interesting to see what happens with the 991.2 GT3 as I suspect they will produce a larger number of those too especially with the hype surrounding the manual version.

I heard that VW need to increase revenue due to the fuel scandal fines so a larger volume of Porsche sold may well have something to do with gaining losses.
Porsche have been turning business away for years, maybe they can't afford to do so at the moment.

isaldiri

18,418 posts

167 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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AL001 said:
If the production numbers for USA are correct (circa 1400 by Dec forecast from reliable source) and they take usual 40%'ish, RS numbers likely to end up c. 3500. I don't expect beyond 4,000 absolute max.
^^ this.

Talk of 6k cars imo is impossible to believe. The US has afaik ~1300 cars now and the UK probably 250-300. The usual % of US cars is around 40-45 and slightly under 10% for the UK (4.0RS apart). 3500-4000 max makes sense. Much more does not.

pete.g

1,527 posts

205 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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Maybe they're making 4000 cars and 8000 engines . . .


gr8jon

89 posts

231 months

Sunday 9th October 2016
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So did we conclude that the UK didn't get an extra allocation?

ChrisW.

6,216 posts

254 months

Sunday 9th October 2016
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pete.g said:
Maybe they're making 4000 cars and 8000 engines . . .

smile

At least the Cup cars will be using the 9A1 engine this year ... Mezger is at last reserved only for the GT3R etc ?? Or are they now 9A! as well ?

Tom_Filho

3 posts

88 months

Thursday 24th November 2016
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Thing is:

1) This GT3 RS is the first ever on a PDK. Asian markets don't buy manual cars. Thus, Asia bought lots of this model;
2) Margin and Profitability in this model is bigger than in one regular GT3 (thus, it makes sense for VW/Porsche to push its production numbers);