RE: Porsche 911 Speedster confirmed for production

RE: Porsche 911 Speedster confirmed for production

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BVB

1,104 posts

154 months

Wednesday 13th February 2019
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Very nice indeed.

noble12345

362 posts

217 months

Wednesday 13th February 2019
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Original Speedsters a beauty, but this is just meh to me.

mersontheperson

703 posts

166 months

Thursday 14th February 2019
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kbee540 said:
  • has any song has ever been improved by a random rap bit?
I prefer Set adrift on memory bliss to True by Spandau Ballet

toasty

7,486 posts

221 months

Thursday 14th February 2019
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mersontheperson said:
kbee540 said:
  • has any song has ever been improved by a random rap bit?
I prefer Set adrift on memory bliss to True by Spandau Ballet
Wash your mouth out with soap and water! hehe

MX6

5,983 posts

214 months

Thursday 14th February 2019
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I like it.

Interesting reading the comments, this appears to be much better received than the regular 992 convertible. I think the two raised forms that lead up to the back for the head rests give the car a better shape, hiding the excessive height of the rear of the standard convertible which looks a bit hunch backy.

Juno

4,481 posts

250 months

Thursday 14th February 2019
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nyxster said:
I don't know who these 'so called investors' think they're saving these cars for.

If you look at the historical data, the last 964 speedster in around 1990 listed somewhere in the order of 80k, today they are asking about 175-180k representing a gain of about 3580 a year or 5 percent. knock off servicing and insurance holding costs and you haven't done much better than track RPI inflation and broken even.

Compare that with investing the 80k in Apple stock in 1990, which according to macrotrends gained over 1,700 percent in the same period and your 80k would now be worth what 1,380,000 or enough to buy a 918 spyder including premium, without any heed to take the loss on 40 cars to ve 'qualified'.

Porsche are utterly taking the piss, the cost of getting their speculator editions outweighs any gain, and putting the m,oney to work in real investments means you can buy the premium added cars without any restriction on what you can do with it, and ironically if it does go up in value you will make the gain without havimg paid OPC margin on 40 cars to get it.

There is a reason why cars are fetching premiums on resale - people who are smart are making money to pay for them, not wasting it playing silly games of DP customer roulette at the OPC.

The baby boomer's cashing out their pensions on the idea that they can make money and drive fancy cars will be the next PPI bandwagon screamers when the reality k9cks in that they're the people pushing up the prices buying off each other, and when they come to sell out of the cheap rate deferred PCP window and out of warranty there'll be little to no market willing to pay inflated money for cars too old to be instagram fashionistas and too new to be properly rare collectibles, and too expensive for genuine enthusiasts to pay silly asking prices for.

Anyone with any sense should keep their hands in their pockets and put their money to work until the depreciation bloodbath starts as all these limited editions flood into the market.

800 grand - thats how much it costs in premium depreciation to take a LaFerrari from delivery to 400km - in a market where pricing is based on not using the things who is going to pay the hit to actually drive one makingbthem overpriced garage ornaments.

40+ porsches qualification, even Enzo would choke with laughter at that.
Can you tell me which stock to put my money in today, the hindsight of Apple is easy to quote now! Also does apple rev to 9000RPM and blow your toupee off yikes