My thought exactly.

 

About 3,500 997.1 6mt coupes (07-09)

 

Really that low? I would have thought closer to 2x that ~7K.

 

About 7000 cabrios are in the total sold 997 turbo numbers.

 

Ok explains why finding one in Sweden with oem lsd took so long for me

 

Wonder how many of those have been crashed or highly modified...

 

There's a fellow on rennlist who did some research and posted a graph of estimated 997 Turbo value.

 

Based on the graph we can say about 3,500 997 6MT Coupes for total 997 production (07-13)

 

In the long run if you want 997 Turbo Coupe with manual transmission, it will be much more rare than 997 GT3. 997 Turbo can be civilized and with a touch of button it turn into a beast. Seriously, give it a few more years and 997 Turbo coupe MT will be an appreciating asset.

 

True, 993RS increased in value dramatically long before the 993 turbo and normal 993's.
Same will happen to manual 997 turbo coupe, give it time.
As mentioned, not so many made and a 'collector' 911 is a manual coupe imo.
Once you can't find low miles decent cars value will go up rapidly.
But honestly, I do not care, as a road car the turbo is so much more enjoyable and fun. At least for me.

 

Makes sense. As I mentioned, if you subtract the ones that have been highly modified or wrecked, how many are actually remaining?

 

I think racing pedigree has something to do with it, but not for everyone.

 

So we're at 3500 manual coupe 997 turbos vs 6000 GT3's in the US if I read correctly. There aren't many!

 

GT3 heads and valve train are a lot nicer than the Turbo. GT2 transmissions are geared "better" and can take more abuse. There are quite a few things in the GT2/3 that are upgraded over the Turbo. The ultimate Porsche would be a 9000rpm Turbo GT3 engine .

 

No the gt3 numbers are worldwide sales of Porsche