Peter R.

Early 996's are quite a bit cheaper than 993's over here if you look around a bit. But that's because we appreciate the finer things in life.

Peter R.

Monique

Convinced the 993s are headed for collector car status.

For instance, the RS market has dried up. Last year, there were 5-10 RS Tourings for sale at mobile.de at any time. Add the RSCS and the Cup cars and the numbers hovered at 17-20 for a combined total.

Now, there are 2 RS touring offered at anytime. Add a few Cup cars and the numbers are at 7-9. The RSCS is virtually unseen anymore (107 built... complete with street papers)

Owners of RS's expect their value is appreciating. In the last year, the market price has gone from 60-65 K euros to 73-80 k euros for good RS tourings.

The same trend is developing for the C2S and (IMO the C2 also) in the North American market. More so than the C4S... (from a collector POV, the AWD system is not as desirable).

So if you own a C2 or C2S, expect depreciation to stop and value to begin an upward trend.

Again, this is my opinion.

Ed Burdell

But I wanna DRIVE my C2S, not just look at it in the garage....! You think maybe I should get another high mileage "beater" 993 to drive around in?

Flying Finn

If you bought your C2S to be an investment, you shouldn't drive it, if you bought it to enjoy and do what Dr. P wanted you to do with it, you should drive it, and drive it hard!

Look, driving a car will always lower it's value in a way but go and see some historic races (Monterey, Rennsport Reunion...), there are people driving 917s, old and even older un-replacaple Formula 1 cars etc!

I'll guarantee you'll enjoy your C2S more when you drive it than when you look at it. You say you wanna DRIVE your C2S 2hich is right thing to do!
Save the daily commute for some other car and do real driving with your C2S, that way you don't get ton of miles and every drive is a joy (stop & go sucks)!

95 C4 993

I could care less if my car depreciates or not. Let the prices tank so I can pick up another one dirt cheap!

Monique

Good point but "dirt cheap" and 993 are not likely to combine in the same car in the future.

95 C4 993

Probably a wrong choice of words. I generally dont associate the words dirt cheap with cars or anything I do. On the other hand, those women in the Red Light District in Amsterdam, they were dirt cheap!!

Pedro356C

I've never heard of a 1995 "S"!!!!

Terry Adams

Well said, FF. I never looked at mine as an investment. Even if you didn't drive it and the car doubled in value during the next 10 years, and you net out storage, insurance and - yes! - maintenance, you would do better with money market funds at 5%.

The return on investment is when I go out for a drive and I am the only one who knows it has 150K miles on it.

Lozzy997

I hope the 997 is thought of as fondly one day in the future as you guys think of your 993's now..

I am hoping for too much?

ZombiePorsche44

It depends on your definition of "future" but in my opinion, YES!, you are hoping for too much!

ZP44

CAHRERA

I love the 997S of all the H20 pumpers except of course the 997 GT3 and GT3RS. But for what you paid for your 997S and I'm assuming it's new. I would of bought a 993TT and a SCION or evan a WRX STi for the price you paid for your 997S. So I can use the TT for non-rainy days and the SCION or WRX for a Daily Driver. Just my .02 and now you don't have to worry about whether your car is going to depreciate because you got the 993TT.

doberdog

There are only a few dozen 993's for sale accross all of Canada at one time so they do demand a higher price than the U.S. There are more U.S. cars for sale here in the last year or so due to the stronger Canadian dollar but a local car always pulls more money. If you are looking for a wide body car, they are even harder to come by, so a low KM car that is local and is an S goes for top dollar. The U.S. prices are so low compared to Canada but it is also a great market to sell into. If you think a nice C2S is hard to find in the U.S. try finding one here!

trickydisco

tru dat!

stedge

"63k for a 50k car is ridiculous.......He'll never get it. "

Well, he might get close. $50k is way too low for a low mile 1997 C4S at this point, if the car is really nice, all records, etc, etc. Sure, I am biased, but I watch pretty closely for obvious reasons. We can debate this forever, though, and no intent.

If a low miles 1997 C4S is in great shape and $50k, someone ought to buy it FAST. That is a good deal.