Anybody here know about Boxster Spyder allocations for 2011. I here they are very scarce. thanks, Dave

 

Autotrader has about 12 available right now.

 

Allocations?

 

According to a dealer I spoke to last week at Manhattan Motor Cars in Manhattan, they will have allocations for the Spyder in January for a summer delivery.

 

what's "allocation"??

 

Good luck finding that fact out!

 

The way that it is being used here, an allocation means that a certain dealer has been "allocated" a build slot for a specific car.

In other words, if you want to go to a dealer and order a Spyder with the exact options that you want, Porsche has to build the car with those specs, vs. the dealer simply ordering a car with the options that they think they can sell off the showroom floor. In order for you to be able to do that, the dealer must have an "open allocation".

If they have an open allocation, you can go in and fill out a "build sheet" requesting your specific options. It will then take several months for the car to be built to your specs.

That is currently a very rare thing for the Spyder.

 

Try Larry Raynolds at Champion. He had one not too long ago.

 

Can there possibly be some discount when ordering spyder with allocation?
Seriously thinking about pulling the trigger but not sure about buying a car at msrp... at all.

 

Anything is possible, but I wouldn't count on it.

 

I bought mine at Danbury in October and they still had a silver one left at that time.

 

Mine is at Bob Moore Porsche in Oklahoma City on consignment. It only has 300 miles on it. It's a white PDK loaded, probably get a great deal on it along with some great financing.

 

There are alot of slightly used ones out there. I certainly would not buy new. Especially after I found one listed
SALE PRICE:
Check

Internet Price:
$56,995
Retail Price:
$74,530

Only 1000k miles.

If it didn't have PDK, I would jump on it!

 

I saw that one yesterday. I had the same reaction, too: good price, but damn....it has PDK.

The main reason I wouldn't want one with PDK is because of potential replacement cost once the car is out of warranty.

 

Rob T,in #7 and 10 above, has it right. From his knowledgeable words I conclude he is a car business pro. Here is how it works (in my experience). Allocation is a term used to define a scheme employed by auto manufacturers to equitably distribute their products. It uses the historical sales history of each dealer as a percentage of total company sales to determine the percentage of production units to be built for each dealer in the future. A system I worked in used a mix of 3 sales periods, previous year, previous quarter and previous month. It was a math problem solved and updated monthly to reflect performance trends. Mature products rarely caused a stir, its the hot new hardware everyone wants, this is when the "allocation" term comes to the fore. High demand relative to availability begats scarcity. Scarcity begats high prices, sticker and sometimes more. Allocation models, whatever their components, consistantly applied, provide a logical , defensible method to divy up the available product to the retail distribution system.