All cars depreciate...that's life if you worry about that don't buy them.

 

I just think its ironic that P car owners complain much more about depreciation than Ferrari or Lambo owners- when a lot of them own BOTH brands.

 

You are smoking crack. Not a lot of pcar owners have lambos and ferraris. While some do, it is a small percentage. Also why are we discussing depreciation. They all depreciate, even the bugatti type 57 depreciated after it was sold.

 

I think he means alot of the people who are buying the GT2RS also own Lambos and or Ferraris or both, and the depreciation is a bad on them as it is on the Higher end Pcars...

 

u'll be upside down 70k in the 3RS less than 8 months. boy just got too much money to waste.

 

Looks who's talking. U change cars more often than me!

And who said I was selling. :-x One to track, one to "garage queen." LOL

 

yeah right.

 

uh, hem. VVVV


This ^^^^^

 

Up until 2009, F-Cars really didn't depreciate much. The F458 is just so much better and the 2006/07 F430's are all coming off warranty, a perfect storm, so to speak. So the F-Cars finally took a mega hit over the last 18 months. On the flip side, I'm still seeing used 458's with up to 4000 miles selling for $20k more than the owner paid. There are very few if any 458's on the lot. 99% are pre sold and F-Car dealers are getting 0-2 a month. It will be quite a while before F458's backslide. Demand is still way ahead of supply. My guy is booked out for the next 18 months and his F458 Spider requests are two pages long.

I honestly think if Porsche even made a modest effort of giving the GT2RS a facelift that bordered on exotic, they would have had a non depreciating car. Instead, they counted on performance to carry the day. I personally love the performance spec, but I hate the CF hood and side scoops. I just don't think Porsche went far enough with the body design. A new nose, CF rear wing and bolt on fender flares would have been cool.

I may still keep this car. It's easy to walk away when it's still vaporware. But once I touch it and sit in it, I usually buy it. I was actually hoping someone would scoop it up so I didn't have to make a final decision. If I do get it, the hood and side scoops go into storage and I install stock turbo parts. Or maybe I should just send it to Tech Art and have it painted in Satin finish with an all new interior.

 

When the 997.1 GT2 was released to the US, the dealer near me claimed they had the first one. They sold it for MSRP, and then it was given back to the dealer by the owner. The dealer then priced it used for 265k, which was MUCH more than the MSRP. Sure enough, the car was sold and it now belongs to an owner of a renting company.

This particular example was GT Silver Metallic.