996 gt2/3/3rs prices. are they mad?

[Rob_T]

so i have been out of the porsche market for a while. about 9 years now. wow that makes me feel old.


the last car i had was a 996 gt2 that i bought for £60k and sold for £57k. i put a deposit down on a gt3rs for £65k but then decided against it. roll on to now and i'm thinking about getting a 991gts.

started looking through the classifieds and have noted the extraordinary prices being asked for 996 gt variants. a gt3rs for £120k odd!!!! a gt3 mk1 for £70k odd!!!! a gt2 for £90k or so. what sort of fool buys those cars for those prices!!!

they were nice cars 10 or 15 years ago, but ultimately they are old cars now. the gt cars would have been tracked hard (they were when i used to do track days).

i wonder who has my old red gt2 with clubsport spec (mk1 996) and what the sort of value of it would be now. they did look good back in the day but now 996's just look old and crap (except for the c4s which somehow still looks awesome) but that's just my opinion!

interested if anyone has an answer to this.

[Rob_T]

fredt said:

Yeah and dont get me started on 70's 911's costing 100s of thousand of pounds.

Just old cars. I don't get it

neither do i. but then as they say a fool and his money are easily parted.

the amount of flack 996's got at the time for not being purists 911's because they were water cooled and not air cooled as well.

ps - i got your sarcasm but my point about fools and money stands - especially on 996's. there's nothing remotely iconic about them to justify those prices.

[Rob_T]

jfp said:

You're in the minority - most consider the 996GT3 to be the all time great in terms of 911. The GT2 has a smaller audience but is equally special. Out of interest what do you drive now / consider to be "iconic"....?

iconic 911 for me is a 1973 rsr.

currently i don't have anything remotely interesting - a CLS shooting break and a golf gti. as i said in my original post i've been out of the porsche scene for a while now and just getting itchy feet again. i looked at a 991 gts the other week but not sure. i considered others like AM's and the usual suspects, but really the 911 is the only car i would really want. so it's a case of which variant. all i know is it has to be white and have the duck tail, even if i have to get it retrofitted!

[Rob_T]

look i'm not here to argue or upset anyone just staggered how much prices have gone up.

this is a pic of my car on the way back from le mans one year:






for interests sake, my car was originally the porsche gb owned car as in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpzFr_KdKDk

if you look at around 4.50 on the video, exactly the same happened to me at bedford autodrome way back in 2005 after some enthusiastic tracking.

dunno if the provenance would add more value to it!

happy days...

[Rob_T]

996GT2 said:

Just looking for a bit more info on this car and on another thread it's mentioned that the GR press car was written off? On the reg I assumed this car was the one registered on 17th July 2001?? that the one?

I can't remember when it was registered to be honest. I put my private plate on it but I remember vaguely the number plate being Y719 or Y971. Can't remember the 3 letters after that. Bought it from Porsche Reading..

Anyway apologies if I annoyed people. My choice of words was careless and throw away in my original post. They are good cars, ultimately I'm simply saying I wouldn't pay that sort of money for them as I don't see that value reflecting them being that good..