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YOUR RESEARCHPotential Comeback Of The 996 Porsche 911?
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The Interweb vin decoders didn't work for me - I used Suncoast's service to get my build options...
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But we might get a visit from Olivia, Queen of the trolls. Because if there is someone somewhere feeling good about what they have, she must come and light a flaming turd on their porch.
That's something, right?
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It's hard to lend a great deal of credibility to any Porsche "expert" who can't spell "Boxster."
Also - what's the deal with the endless sentence fragments and other stuff that doesn't seem to make any sense at all?
To make matters worse, the 996 shared a multitude of components with the sub-911 Boxter. The entire front end and dash for starters; A big no-no in the Porsche purist pamphlet. This happened with the 914 as well.
This reads like the 914 shared a front clip with the 911. This isn't what the author is trying to say (at least, I hope it wasn't), but someone who didn't know better would certainly assume that's what he meant.
The author undermines his credibility over and over again with crap like "The notoriously pointless cupholders found in every German production car to date were the least of it’s worries" - in addition to his seeming unawareness that the early 996 was completely devoid of cupholders, he's also oblivious of the fact that German engineers were loath to add cupholders. Suggesting that cupholders were in "every German production car to date" is just stupidly inaccurate.
Cyrus's skillset seems more appropriate for Pinterest or one of those "20 worst whatever" clickbait sites...his writing isn't even even Jalopnik-worthy. And that's just sad.
This is what happens when (lazy) editors allow their 'contributors' to write like they text. It's far too common place. Everyone is a potential author today.
-Eric
One of the great things about the Internet is that everyone can get published.
One of the terrible things about the Internet is that everyone can get published.
I'm not fond of opinion pieces that are written as if they're factual, especially when the opinions aren't supplemented with any facts - it makes it that much harder to find the quality information one actually wants.
It's good you want to hang on to it as it's going to be a very very long time before regular 996's appreciate in value, if ever. They haven't even hit the bottom of the depreciation curve yet. Just drive the heck out of them and enjoy them.
Dunno. Some random thread, probably. You should try just posting up in a bunch of totally unrelated...oh, wait. I see you've already figured that out.
The Interweb vin decoders didn't work for me - I used Suncoast's service to get my build options...
Philosophically speaking, when your car's value is already lower than whale-spit, there's no where else to go but up. The question is how much up and how long? I just bought an $86,000 car for $16k. WTF? How does performance like the 996 come so cheap? It's the poor bastard step-child of the modern era. I have a Mondial Ferrari that's the same situation. It goes the same as the 328, but costs less than half the price. Hmmmm.
So, the value will go up, but it's never going to be a collector vehicle. Too many made, too many problems, too pedestrian for the GT-3 crowd, etc. Wishful dreaming to think this is going to be the next 930 turbo value. It ain't gonna happen.
