Value in the 991 range

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I have been playing around on the configurator. It strikes me that, if you are able to keep the options fairly light, the base Carrera is pretty good value relative to the S and the GTS. Sure, it is slower, but the 3.4 is a pretty nice engine.

For example, £80k list price for this:

http://www.porsche-code.com/PGBCWYL3

(I know, I know, I added mahogany...but I think it looks quite nice... )

I think that £80k for that compares pretty well to £100-110k for a GTS.

And it compares very well to the 2nd hand prices for S and GTS 991s (and even, to be frank, the 997 GTS prices).

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I wouldn't actually buy it. It was an experiment and I just chose one trim. That said, I still think it looks OK...

Oh dear.

I like the beige leather, though!

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True. I did notice that and think 'Hmmm. Not quite right', but black leather with a dark blue exterior is pretty boring.

So many Porsches are 'Resale white/black/grey'. One of the reasons that I have started looking for a cheap 991 is that the range of colours available in the 2nd hand market is so awful, especially once you narrow it down to manual cars.

Anyway, the important point is that £80k (once haggled down) is a very good price.

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throt said:

Mines white with black interior too. lol.

You can haggle a base 911 down now?.

I would have thought so. No production limits. Huge margins. No reason why not.

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Helicopter123 said:

And a manual box...

So, you are looking for a keen driver (buckets and manual) desiring a beige leather interior and mahogany, in the base model car.

That's a fairly slim market.

Old school! Beige leather is at least not black. Porsches are soooooo dark inside.

I wouldn't actually buy the mahogany, but it is prettier to my eye than the carbon or aluminium tat (which looks exactly like the crap in an Audi or BMW).

I quite like Cmoose's spec.

I stil like the dark blue (it looks better in real life, also on Boxsters), so nob off on that one! Red and yellow also look good.

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All irrelevant now!

You can no longer a 991.1. I missed the boat! fk my life.

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itsybitsy said:

Bet you will be still be able to buy a preregd delivery miles car with 15-20% discount come Xmas!

According to the chap at the OPC today, there are 2 manual cars that might be available pre-reg. 2! Any bets on them being black or white and having PASM and all that junk?

I'm looking at 997s again

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pete a said:

So you can't order a 991.1 but spec and price details not released for 991.2 so you can't order that either?

What are the salesman doing???

All sitting around for the 4 hours I was at Silverstone qtoday. The guy I spoke to was genuinely embarrassed when I asked 'How long is the wait for a new 991S?'. He said 'I can't really say. We're in the gap between the current model and the new one so can't take any orders'.

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Silverstone has a few Boxsters and Caymans, but mostly SUVs and the Panamera. I think there was 1 new 911 on show (and 1 secondhand). It was quite cringeworthy.

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Triple7 said:

The 991 GTS can still be ordered....991.2 overlaps the GTS build run.....so I'm told...

Blimey. Thanks for that! Really does stretch out the price difference if only the GTS is available, but still good to know.