eflight

Looking for a used 997 with a few specific options so started going through the standard sites. anyone have any sites I missed. Specifically looking for sites that can filter based on specific options. I have a few must haves, like manual transmission and sport adaptive seats, so I'm trying to figure out how to find cars with these options, in the year and price bracket I'm in.

Autotrader.com (great filtering)
Porsche.com (limited filtering)
E-bay.com (good filtering)
cargurus.com (some filtering)

Rennlist forums market list (very little filtering)
Global Motorsports (no filtering)
Craigs list (poor filtering)


so what are the others ?

Mumbles

cars.com

jfoxny

I created http://porschefinder.net for just this purpose. Using all the disperate search engines to find Porsches was maddening since many of them did not allow you to search based on keywords and with Porsche - it's all about the options. Share and enjoy.

Jason

duke92

I used porschefinder.net extensively when searching for mine. Thanks Jason for such a great site!

DHC

The www.porscheusa.com site has an excellent search utility for cars at Porsche dealers ... highly customizable (e.g., interior color, options, mileage).

eflight

thanks guys.

Had not heard of the http://porschefinder.net site. Does it other sites or just dealer sites?

I've used the www.porscheusa.com site, I find it frustrateng that you have to start at the beginning of the site each time and it has no keyword search. No way to find that car with adaptive sport seats for instance and there is no way to know if the sport seat button will include the cares with adaptive sport seat.

Yep, forgot to add cars.com

Another great feature on sites like autotrader is the ability to save the search and even better it notifies you when it finds a match

A search site list, with pros and cons, would make a great sticky

PasPar2

searchtempest.com to search lots of craigslist and not local...

jfoxny

It currently searches Cars.com, Autotrader, eBay Motors, and Porsche's own dealer inventory.

jfoxny

Thanks man, I'm glad you found it useful!

eflight

One thing I have run into, everyone lists it a bit different

adaptive sport seat
adaptive sports seat
adaptive sports seats

so some search engines find it some do not,, argh

gla

Excellence Magazine Classifieds ... google it.

Eric - Plug Guy

and cacars.com used to be pretty good too...not sure now.

Jay H

I used this site too to find my 997. Thanks Jason!

Chaos

pca.org

AYHSMB

Porschefinder seems promising, but so far as I can tell it doesn't actually do any filtering? Just keywords, right?

Keywords really doesn't work for car searches; aside from people naming things slightly wrong (such as the adaptive sports seats previously mentioned) you get lots of false positives. eg. if you search for GT3 you will mostly get cars with GT3 front bumpers, not actual GT3's.

What you want is something like autotrader where there are different categories you can refine by.