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It's actually why I started this entire thread; I intend to keep whichever vehicle I keep for at least the next 15 years or until I'm in a pine box, whichever comes first, which is why all the hand wringing about which one. 🤷‍♂️

I'm not bemoaning the price hit, just acknowledging it.

Indeed they are, right along with being able to purchase any $75K car in the first place.

That’s that particular dealer. Not all Porsche dealers are like Ferrari, requiring you to purchase X new ones before you can order a new hot model. The bottom line is to lose 10K - 15K in value after driving a new car in the $70K price range off the lot is more or less normal for the car...

Most Porsche dealers have no 911s on their lots, they're all Cayennes, Macans and Taycans. They are, and it's normal for most any car. Unless it's a collectible model, if you drive a $125K Porsche off the lot and turn around and sell it as used ten minutes later you would be lucky to get $100K.

Not upside down, just a realization of the money lost in the transaction when you sell a $73K car a month later for $65K then get another $73K car plus you get to pay another $6K in sales taxes.

Honestly if you've never looked into it, you probably don't know. I mentioned previously, it's all vehicles - new 2026 BMW M2 is worth about $11K less than it sold for if you drive it back into the dealership immediately after driving away.

But not with any regularity; most of us wouldn't consider five or ten miles once every three to four years to be "driving" them.

Yet if you look at Jay's collection, the vast majority never see the road except perhaps once to make a drive video. 🤷‍♂️

Honestly, if you could get the Tremec in the GT I wouldn't even be considering the DH.

Why didn't I think of that? :cwl:

Just a GT, not even Premium and no PP. I've never driven a DH, just played with the shifter in one; no dealer near me has one available. What would be the biggest differences in your mind? Performance in curves? Body lean? Power?

Good news is that I test drove a GT today and really, it didn't handle all that much worse than the M2, but I noticed that for all the exhaust sound and drama you really didn't have a lot of power down low, you really needed to (exceed break-in recommended RPMs) to feel the power come on...

Two months, not bad.

Note, however, if you're going to make the argument that the name "Mustang" is key, Ford has already thrown that out the window by attaching it and the logo to the Mach-E; there's no Corvette EV SUV. But look at Porsche; despite them still making sports cars, if you go to most dealers there are...

That's OK, it was a fair question. Once you see the sequence of events, it makes a lot more sense. It's just the prospect of getting the M2 its plates for $1500+ that makes this a short fuse decision for me. It's not that I'm buying a track car per se, rather I want a car that handles like a...

Holding value isn't really all that important to me as the intention is to hold onto this vehicle, whatever it may be, until my next vehicle is long, black and I'm riding in a box in the back. :clap: Discounts aside, from a purely MSRP point of view, a GTP optioned the way I want it according...

Here's the story: I cancelled the GT because I felt the M2 was the better choice, and the dealer I had ordered the GT from and four other local dealers all told me if I wanted a DH, it would be a 2027 because they got an allocation for one per model year and theirs was already spoken for. They...

X Plan would have got me $3K off on an order of a new GT.

That's not true. The GT I had priced out was only about $3K less than the equivalent DH once you add the 701A, B&O stereo, MagneRide, the Performance Package and Anti-Theft packages to the GT, and the Tremec is well worth that.