Lots of brand new Porsches immediately available

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911hope said:

These new cars popping up is going to start interfering with the used ones with premium asking prices.

Except most of these cars are ludicrously over-specced, and some are in very odd colours...

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Macan x 5 now added

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GT4RS said:

Wasn’t that long ago you had to wait for a nice model Cayenne and Macan and you certainly couldn’t get a discount.

Yes, but these are mostly absurdly over-specced cars

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I think the explanation is different.

Almost without exception, the immediately available cars are massively over-specced (many have £20k+ in options).

I think Porsche have a new marketing ploy: wait 12 months for the car you want, or get one immediately if you're prepared to pay way over the odds.

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Now 150 new cars – including three x 911

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Absolutely beautiful new Porsche 911 Targa 4 GTS now available...but £170k?!!

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Including 90 Cayennes. Presumably there are deals to be done on those...

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There's now a wide range of new cars available for immediate delivery, including Boxster, Cayman, Macan, 911 etc.

Are the supply issues over?

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So is the love affair with the Taycan over?

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Yellow is very niche come re-sale but if it's your thing, don't hold back.

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GT4RS said:

Interesting that they are now trying to forward sell cars which they haven’t got customers for!

Perhaps it's a demonstrator?

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As of this morning, new cars available:

718 Boxster/Cayman (29)
911 (48)
Taycan (100+)
Panamera (51)
Macan (11)
Cayenne (48)

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One gets the feeling that the Porsche philosophy six months ago was "If you want a basic spec, you'll have to wait a year (for any model), but if you don't want to wait, we can supply a high-spec tomorrow".

The market's changed and left them with an embarrassment of over-specced (and often oddly-coloured) stock.

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A near basic black Cayman went in a day, while the over-specced examples in pink languish unwanted...

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anonymous said:

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Do you mean "wouldn't"?

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62 new plus over 100 pre-reg!

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Cheib said:

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62 new plus over 100 pre-reg!

What is amazing is that there are more new 911’s than Cayenne’s or Panamera’s which seems incredible. Although even though the new Cayenne was only launched a couple of weeks ago the there are new one’s sitting at OPC’s.

Including six in pink (Ruby Star Neo) priced between £124k and £203k!!

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W12GT said:

When I bought mine before Christmas I seem to remember there being less than a dozen new Taycans available, certainly less than 20 new cars across the range. I’ve just looked and seen it’s now at 380 Taycans; I’m pleased I got rid of it when I did.

...so you had your Taycan for just eight months or less?

Do you see the crash coming or was it simply that you didn't like the car?

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Sukh13 said:

Fair points, but that's the easily accessable data point that I have as a mere consumer rather than being in the trade.

I am in the market for a 991.1 or .2 and the knowledge that they were cheaper three years ago and being a depreciating asset in principle is making it hard to jump into the market!

Edited by Sukh13 on Wednesday 23 August 08:57

I think the message is: "Wait until December."

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911hope said:

Why do so many have 20% to 30% of added options?

When the market was buoyant, I think their plan was to say: "Yes sir/madam, we can take your order but it will be a 12-month wait. Alternatively, we have this wonderfully specced model for rapid delivery."

The change in the market has caught them out.