You're right; I should have clarified...Since I bought mine used as a nearly 4 year old car, I was saying that I might lose $25K more over the next 4-5 years, something I can tolerate. No doubt buying new the first-owner depreciation is much higher.

 

There are two on the market that I know of- 170ish msrp with less than 5k miles and asking 149k at p dealerships.
I think the prices are crazy- 20k less than new- that was the dealer markup and how about depreciation- I do not think the last year of 997TT any one was paying sticker when people knew the new car was coming out.
I think all the money is 20% off or 135. Just my opinion.

 

Go with the S! I love mine. In my general area I found exactly what I wanted (except seats) and only paid approx $15k more for all options I wanted--and the 30hp, over what I found the 2010-2012 non S cars were listed. Good luck.

 

The .2 manuals IMO won't be very much in demand in the future. *Generally* the guys who want a manual also want to do some mods, and that means mezger engine and .1 manual dominates. Or I'm biased b/c I have a .1 manual :-)

 

I've been tracking cars for sale on Trader for about a month now. I created a spread sheet with 2010-2011 and 2012 Turbo and Turbo S models. What I am seeing is very little price difference between the asking prices of the Turbo and S models, so I would go for the S.

 

The TTs are not easy to find and the best I saw was $126K about 3 months ago with 4000 miles. It was Boring Silver and Black, PDK regular ventilated seats @ it had the old made new Fuchs Wheels.

Drove incredibly well I did notice the difference between the non S.

The colors just didn't say by me.

Ian

 

I think the non S sellers think the
buyers out there are fools also the S sellers-----125k for a used car for sure is a lot of money......
I saw an example two days ago with a 12 manual non s very low miles at 148 MSRP and the guys is asking 128 but will take 120- I guess these cars don't depreciate- 20% off msrp in two years???????????? Dealer profit was 10% new.


I want one of these cars but can not justify the prices- they are not Ferraris.

 

A lot of inflated asking prices out there. Also worth keeping in mind that it is easy for an 11tts to be stickered at 180-190k. So those cars can be 140k. Even then, 3 years depreciation of only 40k on such an expensive car?

 

There was a 2012 turbo S offered up for sale on 6speed a few days ago, sticker was 182, with 7,000 miles or around there iirc, and the owner was going to let it go for 118k as long as it was a no hassle transaction, nobody took him up on it so instead he called the dealership and they gave him 120 so he did that

 

That was a cab and quite frankly lots of frivolous options are a very personal thing and as a result usually bring back about $1/$5- a gift to the new owner.
In my opinion 120 wholesale of course vs. buying a new car at retail is what the private market price should be- also remember 11s have very little warranty left.

 

But if you buy a CPO you have a full factory warranty until around 2017 or 100k miles.