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Spend any time in Europe and see how they get used over there.
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Put the miles on that until it's gone and use the 911 as your toy until it becomes your DD.
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Buying a house with a small 2 car garage (smaller than normal) and I'm considering selling my 03 Targa that I bought in February. Here are my scenarios:
A. Sell the Porsche now
B. Store the car for the winter and sell in spring
C. Store the car for the winter and use it as a daily driver next year after the lease expires on my current daily driver (MB E500) and figure something out next fall.
The Targa is a creampuff with only 15,500 miles. Basalt black, gray leather, PSE, 18inch wheels.
What should I do?
Should have bought a house with a bigger garage...but what is done can be changed. Knock down a side wall of the garage and build it out bigger
Just keep the Porsche
I just turned in my "daily" from lease, and am now driving the 996 as a daily. I put 25 miles on my "daily" over 3.5 months once the 996 arrived.
Keep the 996...get some snows and dedicated winter wheels. They are suppose to be great in the snow with the right tires.
J
Either A or C. I would not take option B. If you store the car and try to sell in spring, I think you'll lose more money. You'll be making car payments (if you still are paying off the car), paying insurance and registration, plus the car will continue to depreciate. If you love the car, then go with C. If not, then A (sounds like a line of programming).
Yeah, you're not going to have room for both cars. If the lease is up fairly soon on the MB, try to hold on to both if you can. The Targa will make a great daily driver.
Are you kidding!!!!!!!!!!!! These are the wrong people to ask about selling a Porsche!!
I like the garage add-on idea myself!
Good luck with whichever solution you choose!
Maybe you live somewhere silly that is further complicating the question, but I don't get it. If you like the Porsche, keep it. If you don't, then sell it. It's really that simple.
If you like it, then put it in the garage and park the lease car on the street or in the driveway if there's room. Put the miles on that until it's gone and use the 911 as your toy until it becomes your DD. You don't have to worry about snow in CA so enjoy it! It's a great DD (unless you're in sales and have to take customers out). But that's a different thread...
Michael
If you love the car, you need to think outside the box (garage that is). I would bump the garage out, put a vac, airhose reel, toolbox, lifts, heater, porsche pictures framed on the wall, fridge, seal the floors, flat screen on the wall (speed channel) and that should hopefully solve the problem.
Oh...I did the inside mods one long weekend when my wife was visiting relatives - she knows I have an addiction.
Good Luck!
Seems like you gave a lot of info about the specifics of the car,
"The Targa is a creampuff with only 15,500 miles. Basalt black, gray leather, PSE, 18inch wheels."
that really was not needed for the "Question", so if you want to sell on this forum pony up the 18.... FYI I was looking on this site every day for answers and new car posting... just got my 02
Jerry
Don't worry about whether the Porsche fits in the garage or not. These cars can take the weather. My 99 has spent most of its life outside and the paint still looks like new. '
What really counts is to drive the car. Parking it in the garage for the winter only saves it for the next owner. We buy these cars to drive them. When I don't use my Porsche as a daily driver, it gets sold.
ditto on the weather part, my neighbor has a black 996 cab, and he doesn't have garage. he parks that car on driveway all the time, never clean it, don't even wipe the snow off the soft-top
he will just let the snow melting,
and the car looks still brand new!
today's car can take weather.
Too many people obsess about their P-car. A couple of years back I had a high powered sports attorney bragging to me about how his C4S had never seen rain or snow, never had been run over 4000 rpm, and how he regularly cruised the interstate at 135mph and never gotten a ticket because he knew all the cops. That was after telling me about all of the pro-atheletes he represented. I am sure he kept his car in an air conditioned / heated garage.
Well, I won't tell you what I think about someone like that, but I would not mind buying his car after he tires of it after only a year or two.
The question is do you want to be a poser or a driver. A Porsche is built to take it. Spend any time in Europe and see how they get used over there. They are cars just like any other. They just do a bunch of things a whole lot better.
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