Buy one of the last petrol 911’s ?
Buy one of the last petrol 911’s ?
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Mr lestat

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4,318 posts

218 months

Wednesday 18th November 2020
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What’s the general opinion on buying one if the last Porsche 911’s with a petrol engine in 2030.

How long would that take to make money for your great grandchildren ? Just a thought, note I have no plans to do this just musing

StuntmanMike

14,866 posts

179 months

Wednesday 18th November 2020
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Mr lestat said:
What’s the general opinion on buying one if the last Porsche 911’s with a petrol engine in 2030.

How long would that take to make money for your great grandchildren ? Just a thought, note I have no plans to do this just musing
I couldn’t afford a new 911.

I checked the prices and I can’t even afford one of the knackered old eighties version. wink

brillomaster

1,860 posts

198 months

Wednesday 18th November 2020
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Depending on which petrol 911 you buy, you can pretty much double your money the second you drive it off the forecourt...

Chubbyross

4,966 posts

113 months

Wednesday 18th November 2020
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brillomaster said:
Depending on which petrol 911 you buy, you can pretty much double your money the second you drive it off the forecourt...
It wouldn’t even be driven off the forecourt: it’d be popped straight onto a lorry and sadly ensconced into someone’s private collection.

Mouse Rat

2,086 posts

120 months

Wednesday 18th November 2020
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The 911 will still be petrol in 2030.
Its our goverment that wants the ban.
Manufacturers will still be making them for the rest of the world.

Jag_NE

3,335 posts

128 months

Wednesday 18th November 2020
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Mr lestat said:
What’s the general opinion on buying one if the last Porsche 911’s with a petrol engine in 2030.

How long would that take to make money for your great grandchildren ? Just a thought, note I have no plans to do this just musing
Really weird.

Mark83

1,425 posts

229 months

Wednesday 18th November 2020
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I can't predict how 2020 will end and you want to predict 2030?

ecsrobin

18,628 posts

193 months

Wednesday 18th November 2020
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Mouse Rat said:
The 911 will still be petrol in 2030.
Its our goverment that wants the ban.
Manufacturers will still be making them for the rest of the world.
This.

But there’s apparently also a government target of 2050 of banning any ICE vehicle from being on the roads (from a quick glimpse of a big thread on here) so will values plummet?

belleair302

7,008 posts

235 months

Wednesday 18th November 2020
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I doubt any politician in parliament today will be in their job in 2050 and none of the current lot have any clue about the future. They cannot decide upon Christmas yet, let alone how to develop an infrastructure for HS2 and then hospitals or air transportation. Its just words from a group of fools.

Wills2

29,405 posts

203 months

Wednesday 18th November 2020
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belleair302 said:
I doubt any politician in parliament today will be in their job in 2050 and none of the current lot have any clue about the future. They cannot decide upon Christmas yet, let alone how to develop an infrastructure for HS2 and then hospitals or air transportation. Its just words from a group of fools.
Indeed they have taken 10 years and I believe haven't even laid one mile of track towards Birmingham if it gets built it'll have taken over 20 years to build a railway line...one.

I think we can take comfort in that as regards the latest "moon shot" announcement from No 10, they can't even buy PPE or get
an app to work efficiently.




anonymous-user

82 months

Thursday 19th November 2020
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It’s always irked me that every Porsche seems to be defined as being “... the last of the <insert variable here>”. Always the emphasis on “last”

nunpuncher

3,763 posts

153 months

Thursday 19th November 2020
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belleair302 said:
I doubt any politician in parliament today will be in their job in 2050 and none of the current lot have any clue about the future. They cannot decide upon Christmas yet, let alone how to develop an infrastructure for HS2 and then hospitals or air transportation. Its just words from a group of fools.
^This.

The government come out with these things and the press report "the government have released their plan...". It's not a plan. It's a brain fart that's escaped from someone's face hole.

JS2015

67 posts

274 months

Thursday 19th November 2020
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Wills2 said:
Indeed they have taken 10 years and I believe haven't even laid one mile of track towards Birmingham if it gets built it'll have taken over 20 years to build a railway line...one.

I think we can take comfort in that as regards the latest "moon shot" announcement from No 10, they can't even buy PPE or get
an app to work efficiently.


Hear hear. Seems like more of a pending en-masse land grab than anything. If the railway isn't built in full (by some miracle) at least their victims' land can then be repurposed as they see fit after 'purchasing' it. Don't get me started on all the spin / spam online that is drowning out all the negativity about the project either. Anyway, back to cars.

nunpuncher

3,763 posts

153 months

Friday 20th November 2020
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Powerfully Built Company Director said:
It’s always irked me that every Porsche seems to be defined as being “... the last of the <insert variable here>”. Always the emphasis on “last”
That's because you can hike the price up massively if people agree with you that it's the "last". If it's the "first" nobody wants it.

Example. 993, the last of the air cooled. £40k for an average one. 996, the first of the water cooled. £12k for a good one.

If I was in the game of speculating on a future desirable cooking 911 it would be a manual 997.2 C2 as it's naturally aspirated, manual, narrow bodied with proper steering. 991 had st steering, the .2s combined the st steering with a turbo and all 992s are turbo'd and wide body.

davek_964

11,201 posts

203 months

Friday 20th November 2020
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nunpuncher said:
That's because you can hike the price up massively if people agree with you that it's the "last". If it's the "first" nobody wants it.

Example. 993, the last of the air cooled. £40k for an average one. 996, the first of the water cooled. £12k for a good one.
At least the 993 was a pretty car - the 996......... wasn't.

nunpuncher

3,763 posts

153 months

Friday 20th November 2020
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I wouldn't say either is "pretty".

Mr Whippy

32,453 posts

269 months

Sunday 22nd November 2020
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nunpuncher said:
That's because you can hike the price up massively if people agree with you that it's the "last". If it's the "first" nobody wants it.

Example. 993, the last of the air cooled. £40k for an average one. 996, the first of the water cooled. £12k for a good one.

If I was in the game of speculating on a future desirable cooking 911 it would be a manual 997.2 C2 as it's naturally aspirated, manual, narrow bodied with proper steering. 991 had st steering, the .2s combined the st steering with a turbo and all 992s are turbo'd and wide body.
Agree 997,2 c2s is one I’d buy :-)