Dial 911

[FC]

Originally Posted by SCA

Hung out at port for six days, but…

[JST]

Nice! Which ship?

[SCA]

Originally Posted by JST

Nice! Which ship?

See below.

[lemming]

Originally Posted by SCA

See below.

I’m excited for you to take delivery of your car. And to finally get to drive it.

I think you’ll love it.

Honestly, the one car any sports car fan should own right now is a manual 911 (any level trim) or a 718 with a manual.

Porsche just does it well with the right combination of lightweight and enough power to go along with a decent manual transmission.

People always say you can spend more for a sports car, but these days, how many of them are true manuals? PDK is amazing, but it’s a lifeless driving experience.

[SCA]

Josh (PA) I recently read on RL that Porsche dealers are able to configure Aventurine up to March 2024. One individual very recently spec’ed a C2S Cab in Aventurine. I thought it was going NLA 11/23?

[Josh (PA)]

Interesting. Thanks for the heads up

I was on the configurator yesterday and aventurine says for builds up to 10/23. I might give my sales guy a ring and see if there is any chance for a build before the .2 cut over.

[SCA]

Originally Posted by Josh (PA)

Interesting. Thanks for the heads up

I was on the configurator yesterday and aventurine says for builds up to 10/23. I might give my sales guy a ring and see if there is any chance for a build before the .2 cut over.

[lemming]

Originally Posted by FC

Well, having a Boxster AND a GT3, the role a Turbo S fills can frankly be filled with any number of other fast GT cars with even more character and not triple down into a contemporary Porsche.

In that situation, money-permitting, I'd be more open to an AM for example.

I have been thinking about your comment, but my preference is still for a 992 TT cabrio.

There’s a lot of trust I have not built up with Maserati or AM or McLaren, but I have with Porsche. Porsche still builds better engines, IMHO, since they make their own. It matters. And they also spend more R&D money to build enough lightness into their cars. You’re still looking at a 300-400lb delta between a 992 turbo cabrio and an Aston convertible.

I bet the Aston engine (the AMG V8TT) sounds better, but having the turbos sit inside the V? No thanks.


Last point to convey, I still think a Turbo value and depreciation is more of a known known. I don’t know what the heck I’d ve in for wiith an AM. Even McLarens sink in value.

[Josh (PA)]

Originally Posted by SCA

I sent him a note - I'll report back if/when I get a reply. The last communication I got from him was on April 6th - when he offered me $73k in early trade value for my car at the time when the private party market value was $100k without selling effort... That would have been for him to get my car and resell it in April and me to apply the trade towards my allocation 'when it was available.'