RE: Porsche 911 GT2 RS: Driven

[cardigankid]

Rawwr said:

cardigankid said:

You can even walk in and buy a Club Sport at £89k or DTM Champions Edition (200 total production worldwide) for £115k.

So once the 200 are sold, what does someone who wants one of them do?

The fact is that if you want one now you me or anyone else can walk in and buy one. All cars go out of production sooner or later. EVO doesn’t agree about the Comp Pack model, indeed they say it is up there with the E30 M3, though the Porsche electric steering is generally judged better.

http://www.evo.co.uk/bmw/m4/20559/bmw-m4-competiti...

I don’t find it a problem. There is more hype about the Porsche, but I find the M4CP a better drive overall than any 4 cyl Boxster or Cayman. If they discontinue the engine, too bad. Porsche discontinued successively their air cooled and their NA engines. All the more reason to have one I would have thought. The BMW straight six is one of the best petrol engines there is. I think that it is one to have, and i have been right in the past.

Edited by cardigankid on Tuesday 27th March 11:24

[Rawwr]

Ok, so the Porsche is more in demand. Now back to the question: Once the 200 are sold, what does someone who wants one of them do?

[cardigankid]

OK, Rawrr, I would really like a new 996GT3RS. Or a new 996 C4S, must be new mind, and it has to have the Powerkit engine, and sports seats, in Zenith Blue with black leather. The words 'too bad' come to mind. It's a problem, but it's not the same problem as the Porsche business model which is based solely on the power of the badge.

[cardigankid]

J2daG1990 said:

Money to be made in buying and selling sneakers trust me. I have software on my PC that auto adds the shoes to my cart and checks out. You can easily make profit flipping them. No different to the Porsches ironically!

You can't buy a GT Porsche using PC software unless you can hack into the production schedule.

[Rawwr]

Ok, so the Porsche is more in demand. Now back to the question: Once the 200 are sold, what does someone who wants one of them do?

[Chestrockwell]

Rawwr said:

Ok, so the Porsche is more in demand. Now back to the question: Once the 200 are sold, what does someone who wants one of them do?

Perhaps, what he’s trying to say is, when the 200 were in production and say, BMW had 50 left to build, you and I could go to our local dealer and buy one. Where as if I went to any OPC now and said, I’d like to place a deposit on the next GT Porsche being released, they’d laugh me out!

[thiscocks]

Scooby P1 said:

I was going to relate this article to Nobles as well Mr Bond!

The front tyres on this RS are the same width as the rears on a Noble. How the game has moved on.
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You mean how heavy and over-tyred everything seems to be these days?

[cardigankid]

GroundEffect said:

cardigankid said:

What does a 911 Turbo S cost to build, again I'm guessing but I would say 25k max.

Including the amortised & depreciated costs? A huge amount more than £25k.

You go design & build a new high output engine, 4WD, 4WS system and try to make money back across just a few thousand units.

For reference, a prototype standard car can cost >$250k due to economy of scale issues & amortised F&T across low volumes.

Yes, but the trick they pulled with the Boxster back in 96 was the commonality of the parts, and that is still the case. The cost of design and putting into production, and running all the support operations, is amortised across the whole range. That is not counting the fact that development is slow and organic, not radical, which must save more money, and of course the massive contribution to development costs of using existing VW and Audi chassis, then sharing it with the likes of Bentley. So, as I said, the cost of producing a Turbo S and a boggo Cayman, which are both turbo engines, is actually not that different. I said £10k, maybe it is less.

[donutskidmark]

I think the 991 GT2RS is still one of the most desirable road legal sports cars ever made.
As long as it does not have that awful red alcantara interior…….
Plain black interior and silver wheels please.