andrew_churcher
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http://www.used-porsche.co.uk/car_Porsche-944-Turbo-Cabriolet-_239__index.php
rare car but that is quite a price tag............
rare car but that is quite a price tag............
944 Turbo Cab for £19,950........
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nicksonmsport
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i had the chance to buy one of these for £2k that needed a bit of work. wish i had bought it now!
nicksonmsport
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yep! needed a fair bit of work and i had just spent far to much money on toys that month so i decided against it. if i had had the spare cash would have had it straight away! nevermind
andrew_churcher
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i am a 944 fan but i reckon i would either find a couple more grand and get a BMW e46CSL or what the £20k down as a big deposit on the 996 GT3 RS he has for sale as well.
It only needs one interested person to nab it though
It only needs one interested person to nab it though
Copperman05
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Good to see these cars being valued more accurately compared to similar aged metal. Agree on interior though.
Edd
Edd
924nutter
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I have one of these and it is even lower milage, (44,000) It is encouraging to see this price hike. Mine was up for 17,500 when it only had 27,000 on the clock, but I got it for £12,500 in respone to an ebay ad. Due to the need for a replacement hood thanks to fading, and a split rear screen, I was thinking of knocking mine out for about 10k, now I might advertise it for £13 and a half. It needs to go as I am enjoying my new 996T cab too much. Oh yes and the grey interior is a pleasant change from ,imho, dreary black.
pauljmcnulty
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A surprise, I always thought the 944 was a keeper? How does the 944 compare at real-life speeds, and are you enjoying the 996T at speeds likely to cause license issues?
I'm very ambivalent about the turbo cab myself, with no disrespect to people who own them. To me, the turbo is the car that most lends itself to the fastest, the most modified, the trackiest (is that a word, lol), or even the "best-in-breed, never driven, future classic, yours for only £000000s" market. The cab has alway been the ideal 944 I'll never own, as I don't have a garage and my other half hates convertibles. But, I'd value an S2 cab far above a turbo, as a better cruiser than the un-modified turbo for about half the price. Emporer's new clothes to me, but great if you're all making a decent profit on them! [
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924nutter
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Well Paul the 944 was a keeper until I got my hands on all that filthy redundancy money. The 944 is quick, but typical of turbos of that era laggy unless you keep it on the boil. The 3.6 has natural grunt low down and even if you bury it in second or third you dont feel it come on boost like you do in the 944. That said, a std 996t might be different but this one hs a Tubi exhaust with stainlless steel sports cats and is more likely poking out 440 at the very least. With the balancing effect of the front diff, it doesn't seem too rear endy and my cajones go before I even squeal the tyres on the A339M/M4 London Bound slip, but I am working on it. My guess is that it would pull from about 40 to 120 in fourth quicker that you can say jack robinson, if given the chance. Such is the grunt of the 996 that the 250 turbo 944 actually feels slow now. If you've never been fired up the road in a 996t nothing can prepare you for the step change. Down side stupid bloody 15 gallon tank and a reserve light that comes on with 3 in the tank, oh and having to run it on premium unleaded. Effectively you take the 996 out for a drive you fill it up. Had great fun and never seen more than 0.4 bar boost
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I'm very ambivalent about the turbo cab myself, with no disrespect to people who own them. To me, the turbo is the car that most lends itself to the fastest, the most modified, the trackiest (is that a word, lol), or even the "best-in-breed, never driven, future classic, yours for only £000000s" market. The cab has alway been the ideal 944 I'll never own, as I don't have a garage and my other half hates convertibles. But, I'd value an S2 cab far above a turbo, as a better cruiser than the un-modified turbo for about half the price. Emporer's new clothes to me, but great if you're all making a decent profit on them! [
On the other hand [&:]
Relative to the coupe, It feels like it has a lower CofG (and probably has - double floor extra metal in the cills etc.- lower windscreen) which IMHO benefits the handling more than the flex from losing the roof harms it.
Another bonus is you can here the exhaust note with the standard exhaust (with the roof down).
I drove it Angelsey and back last Tuesday, roof down and other than the noise - tyres mostly on the motorway (BMW 5 series are particularly loud!) felt quite fresh at the end of a very long day. I don't have a wind deflector and was making (discreet) progress on the A5 and to/from the M5.
With the seat heaters on and the fan blowing I didn't need a jacket - I was wearing a hat for the higher speed stuff though.
I always feel 'closer to nature' in the cab, cut grass & wild flowers smell stronger - there is also a panoramic view.
The overtaking kick of the turbo is still very useful for passing slower cars. I haven't been over 130 in it and I wasn't driving then (enthusiastic demo from the previous owner), but at 130 it was still comfortable, though conversation would need raised voices.
On the downsides the boot is a lot smaller than the coupe, however its still wide and the back seats still fold for more space.
Tony
pauljmcnulty
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Can't disagree, Tony, although would the S2 cab be any worse on that sort of drive? I guess that there's only so fast you can go in the UK and the S2 is faster than that at less than half the price of the turbo cab. [8|]
You do bring me to my main point with all the 944s; they are best enjoyed out on the road clocking up proper mileage. Very few turbo cabs have led this life, a waste IMO, and they seem to be increasingly seen as museum-pieces. A real shame, as they aren't ever going to increase in value that much, no more than the annual cost of owning them even if you don't drive it each year, so better to spend half the price on an S2 and drive it every day. That's just me though, if someone wants to spend £20K on a 944 and then never use it that's perfectly fine for them.
You don't count, as you actually use the performance of your cars! []
You do bring me to my main point with all the 944s; they are best enjoyed out on the road clocking up proper mileage. Very few turbo cabs have led this life, a waste IMO, and they seem to be increasingly seen as museum-pieces. A real shame, as they aren't ever going to increase in value that much, no more than the annual cost of owning them even if you don't drive it each year, so better to spend half the price on an S2 and drive it every day. That's just me though, if someone wants to spend £20K on a 944 and then never use it that's perfectly fine for them.
You don't count, as you actually use the performance of your cars! [
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pauljmcnulty
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Difference between S2 and turbo cab similar to differences between coupe s2 and turbo
Obviously, the turbo is better
Paul still awaits the first owner of an S2 who's unhappy with the driving experience, so chooses to modify it at tens of thousands of either pounds or man-hours, then sells it having never driven it much. [&:]
Turbo is better I can understand. Rarer is something I'm struggling with these days. With the numerous ways you can spend £20K I'd really fail to justify a 944 that will only hold it's value if you don't use it. £30K will buy you a DB9, albeit a scruffy one that you'd be happy to use daily. Rare cars are dirt-cheap, common cars, good ones, are available for less than the price of a 12K-mile service on a 944.
Got a client who bought a Bentley CGT for just over £30K last year. Ran it for a few thousand miles and sold it for what he paid. No costs other than the oil-change minimum service. Compared to what I've spent on my 944 I know who's laughing! [&o]
I will always upset people with my opinion that 944s are cheap cars, albeit hugely undervalued, and wasted if you're not putting at least a few thousand miles a year on them. They aren't a future-classic, there are too many other cars competing for that accolade, and cars are going to become so expensive to run that owning a "fun" car will appeal to a shrinking market. The up-side is that 944s will always be relatively easy to run, with spares so plentyful, but they will always be stuck between cheaper modern cars, and more "classic" older cars. 944s, and for that matter Boxsters and Caymans, will never hold a real "classic" value like a 911, despite being better value, and arguably better cars.
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