Options are expensive on this Porsche cars, the options alone could buy me a new vehicle. Nevertheless, please let me know your thoughts on worthwhile options and what might not be the best value.

What options below are not needed or a poor value?
Were any crucial options missed?
What is a fair discount on this C2S?


911 Carrera S $90,500

Packages
P36 Infotainment Package $3,010
* Contains BOSEŽ Surround Sound System
* Porsche Communication Management (PCM) with navigation module
* XMŽ Satellite Radio.

Exterior Color B4 Carrara White $0
Interior Color AP Black Sport Seats $0

Exterior
603 Dynamic Controlled Cornering Light $690

Performance
176 Sports Exhaust System $2,810
250 Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK) $4,080
640 Sport Chrono Package Plus $1,480
P17 Sports Suspension (-20 mm) Including Mechanical Rear Differential Lock $950

Wheels
421 19" Turbo II Wheel $890

Interior
P01 Adaptive Sports Seats $3,055

Interior Leather
840 PDK 3-spoke Sports Steering Wheel with Shift Paddles $490

Destination Charge
Amount $950

Vehicle price $108,905

 

Nice car !!
One can shave away the options BUT it won't be that same car . Every option you list has a function --whether it's comfort , sport, performance , technology.

The PSE isn't really needed but it is a nice thing as long as its on the car .

A 2011 car .. don't count on much of a discount . They have a year to sell that car and with those options and color .. it will get sold .

99,500 sounds like a good closing number .

 

I agree. Very nice car. A couple of those options are personal taste items, but not extravagant, just a question of what you like. For example, everyone who owns the PDK raves about it, and those who have it also insist the Sport Chrono is a must-have option with the PDK. Ditto the sport suspension. Since I see you're in SoCal also, you might try one with and without the sport suspension after finding a choppy road to run the comparison. That's the only item that caught my eye. Either way, it isn't an unusual option nor one I recommend against. It depends on your personal attitude. I will add that current C2S (the 997.2 to be specific) is more comfortable and handles better with PASM and the sport suspension than earlier models with or without their version of sport suspension. But don't tell any owners of older models that I said so.

I'd say the car is merely well-optioned, not over-optioned at all. You could spend the same 17k on a different set of options if you wanted a different result, but in neither case would you be gilding the lily. Porsche do not intend their cars for sale at the base price, and not primarily for reasons of an advertising lowball. Probably not at all in fact. It is the range of interests among Porsche owners.

From the base car, you can move in one direction toward a daily driver intended to cosset you in heavy traffic while remaining a great sports car when you hit open roads. Or you can move the opposite direction and build a car that is blindingly fast on track days though it would be a little wearying on a freeway commute. You can basically buy a race-ready world beater off that option list. All you'd need to add is a race mechanic and a day in a garage stripping off the keep-it-street-legal stuff to mount a CalClub campaign. (Check the GT3 RS version if you want to see how high that base price can be lifted. It must be around $150k.)

The base car has to accomodate both directions of movement so it leaves off a lot of things we immediately toss for racing or even serious track day use. You would expect a nav system stock on a 100k car, but not if 20% of the owners plan to seriously run the car on tracks. For that purpose, most of the "I expect that stock on a 100k car" options are just so much weight.

Personally, my racing days are done. I'd love the car you're looking at for daily driving, and if I did make a few laps of Willow Springs just for old time's sake, I'd know that like my own C2S, that car wouldn't embarrass itself.

Gary

 

Well thought out car. I am not into the cornering lights but everthing else is a top line option IMO.


good luck

 

Skip the lights and sport exhaust, and order the sport seats instead of the adaptive sport seats. Other then that a very well optioned car.

 

Wow. Pretty well optioned and you didn't even go crazy. If you go deep, you should get full leather as well. Be sure you convince yourself you want PDK. I know you're in LA, so it's understandable, I guess.

 

+1 u, what he said.

 

and I love it.

 

Do this.

Add aftermarket exhaust later on. The sports seats and adaptive sports seats are the exact same... except sports are manual and adaptive are power.

You might want to add full leather too. Really dresses up the interior.

 

Forget the PDK (real sports cars have stick shifts), Sports Chrono and upgraded exhaust (this option reminds me of being a teenager).

As for the seats, thats a personal choice...sit in both.

Unless you track the car, dont bother with the upgraded sports suspension either. Whats the point?

Seems like you can save a whole bunch of $$$ by buying a car that doesn't have options that you will never use.

 

Thanks for all the inputs everyone. I'm pretty sure I'm with going everything except the maybe the sports exhaust.