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There is no need to rush to buy the GTS4 (or spec PTS), as a full mainstream model (ie unlimited by decree), the vehicle is expected to be for sale for a year.
Only C2 (ie Carrera RWD) based production to be terminated in July.
C4 (ie Carrera AWD) based production to continue in parallel with C2 991 until the middle of next year at the earliest, probably for at least a year until MY2013 production starts. This includes Turbo models (and if they hadn't already halted production of some variants, the GT models).
Also, not only will C2/C2S residuals be hammered by the front end subsidy to the GTS2/4 models recently released, but back end finance subsidies of £4-5k on the balloon (GFV - final payment) payments for non-GTS models are expeced to mean almost ALL "cooking" 997 on finance will just be handed back in three years (or term as appropriate) to PFS (Porsche Financial Services) and the respective OPCs.
This will present no problems if OPCs can control the prices, but this is unlikely as the vehicle's value wil still be defined by the market as a whole.
GTS2/4 should maintain their value better (GTS2 more so due to more production/time limited run), but still not as well as Turbo, or better, GT models.
There is no need to rush to buy the GTS4 (or spec PTS), as a full mainstream model (ie unlimited by decree), the vehicle is expected to be for sale for a year.
Only C2 (ie Carrera RWD) based production to be terminated in July.
C4 (ie Carrera AWD) based production to continue in parallel with C2 991 until the middle of next year at the earliest, probably for at least a year until MY2013 production starts. This includes Turbo models (and if they hadn't already halted production of some variants, the GT models).
Also, not only will C2/C2S residuals be hammered by the front end subsidy to the GTS2/4 models recently released, but back end finance subsidies of £4-5k on the balloon (GFV - final payment) payments for non-GTS models are expeced to mean almost ALL "cooking" 997 on finance will just be handed back in three years (or term as appropriate) to PFS (Porsche Financial Services) and the respective OPCs.
This will present no problems if OPCs can control the prices, but this is unlikely as the vehicle's value wil still be defined by the market as a whole.
GTS2/4 should maintain their value better (GTS2 more so due to more production/time limited run), but still not as well as Turbo, or better, GT models.