I think everyone has a touch of this when they get their first Porsche, even old guys who have worked longer than you have lived. It goes away fast!!!! Get that car......didn't see PSE on your list?

 

You only live once. Life is fragile and can be over in an instant. Eat dessert first. Once the beautifully speced GTS is sitting in your driveway all your buyer's remorse will melt away.

Who wants to be the richest man in the cemetary anyway?

 

Considering you can no longer order a 991 GTS, I wouldn't worry about the decision.

 

I have already ordered it. My order was placed back in October and car should be in US soil within the next days.

 

Look forward. Don't look back. Enjoy the car.

 

Sound advice. I clipped the above out because it applies to me. I would have loved to have owned a Porsche at age 32. But there was no way I could have afforded one even at the relativity low prices they were 45 years ago. Yes, I am old. That being said, I just ordered a new 2017 C4S. I am having second thoughts also. Not a feeling of guilt but more a feeling of foolishness. Now long will I be able to drive this car. My health and driving capability is good now, but how many years are left. My home, shop, land and investment properties are paid for I have an investment portfolio and cash in the bank, have Social Security and supplemental insurance. So the usual bills are food, insurance, utilities, repairs and maintenance on my vehicles the continuing property maintenance bills and stuff I think I need. And there is also the unexpected surprise events that take some of your money.

I also have a new 2016 Mini Cooper JCW's arriving for my wife. She is 18 years younger than me. And should be able to take care of me instead of having to go into a home. Hopefully a change in politics will allow us to get some reasonable health insurance for her in the next couple of years.

Life throws allot of curve ***** at a person. So to the OP, if you truly are financially secure enough at the young age of 32 to spend the 100k for a toy, do so. If there are any doubts, wait until you are a little older, but not 68 like me. Porsche will probably still be around providing the world as we know it still exists. Just imagine what the car might be in the future.

Arlan

 

Well said. Life passes by very fast and before you know it you can be old and unable to really enjoy this kind of a car. Or you can be dead
In an instant.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

If you can afford it go for it.

 

Are you sure though you can no longer order the GTS? Are they out of allocations? Because that may change my feelings a bit I see it in the configurator and I think you can still order it.

 

Well said, like everyone in this thread have very well said and thank you for all your comments! I have a feeling of guilt as well as a feeling of foolishness. I feel stupid and I'm very close on starting a new thread with headline "last 991GTS allocation, delivery end of January, PM me" lol

Macster as well as everyone else was perfect to the point and I truly warmly thank everyone of it. I can't believe how amazing members our Porsche community has, it's so great to feel the support and hear the opinion of all of you.

As I mentioned above, money is really not an issue. I did some very hard core investments on real estate and in the stock market in the last 7 years that can allow me to very comfortable retire today if I want to, which by no means I'm planning to do. The issue is the feeling of foolishness. My one side says "Just Do it, you always wanted this car" and my other side says "You don't need it you dummy, you already have the Cayenne Turbo".

 

If your situation is the money doesn't matter and you won't suffer by spending it and won't miss it then it becomes more a matter of do you really want the car.

Given how expensive cars are I am always willing to have second thoughts. Sometimes I talk myself out of a car purchase other times I am sure I want to proceed and do so.

Are you sure the "deposit" is non-refundable? Consumer laws are different everywhere but I would be darn sure the deposit was definitely non-refundable.

If you really end up not wanting the car then losing the deposit is painful but you get a life's lesson from it. Never ever put a deposit down on a car or if you do put as small as one as you can. And before you put down a deposit know to the penny how much the car will cost and have this in writing.

Even if the deposit is refundable giving a car dealer a deposit gives it more power over you and allows the dealer to apply pressure -- more pressure and more effective pressure -- to get you to pay more for the car.

You want to avoid giving the dealer any more power over you than it already has.

 

Life is short (or can be)

I'm 44 and have owed 18 911's and one Cayenne in my lifetime, always within my means. Most people around me think AND tell me i'm wasting my money and should wait until i'm retired.

That said...I've just spent the last 12 months battling stage 3 cancer (and I had no symptoms. After all the chemo, radiation and surgeries all seems clear now and my next goal is to make it 5 years without re-occurence(s)

All that to say I'm happy i didn't wait until i was retired to enjoy things in life (again I've been lucky to be able to afford them)

Life can surprise you in both a good and a bad way. If you have the ability and the means to buy a 911, do so and ENJOY IT and don't feel bad about it

 

no more GTS's or GT3's

 

Sorry to hear about the stage 3 cancer bro. Couldn't agree with your words more!

 

Most states do not allow automobile deposits to be non-refundable. In most cases if there is a breach of contract the party harmed is entitled to actual damages and that party has a duty to mitigate those damages. So if you decide not to buy the car the dealer should have an obligation to make a good faith attempt to sell the car and only keep any additional expenses he incurred as well as the difference between what he sold the car to you for and what he actually sold the car for. He might actually be able to sell it for more than you were supposed to pay for it but no, you don't get that additional money.

 

I'm glad you are doing better. this year was the same for me as you. i spent it fighting stage 4 cancer. surgery, chemo, radiation therapy, constant blood drawn, pep scans, ct scans. I've become very close to the hospital staff that took care of me all year. that being said, i have the means to enjoy life so that what i am doing. in the worse case scenario, my family is already taken care off. i'd rather they enjoy the best of me than the 'worry wart' me.

no regrets. enjoy the car.