jotaking said:
991
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Against
More made
Engine issue (although fixed by Porsche)
No manual option
Less involved and raw than 997
Will a 991 Gt3 always command more than a 997????
descisons......descisions.....
Oh - you can keep going on that IMHO...
I don't even like the rear steer on the 991 from the passenger seat at track speeds and given how it works and where the actuators sit it is virtually guaranteed to either wear out or fail sooner or later (I have heard second hand stories of alarming amounts of play in the system at modest mileage with Porsche saying that it is perfectly normal and not a warranty job to sort).
The 997 isn't only the end of the Mezger derivative line, but also the last narrow bodied 911 track car. For all of its easy road manners the 991 GT3 has an appreciably larger footprint when you are on a narrow road or need to park it.
Everything about owning the 991 is more expensive - brakes, tyres, servicing, etc...
Unlike the 997, you cannot do the vacuum cap trick to force a 991 to use all 3 silencers at 3/4 max rpm in order to reduce the noise for a static noise test on track days. [911s are often fine on driveby noise but struggle with low static tests due to the proximity of the engine to the noise meter]. The 991 is also louder out of the box too.
The 991 engine reliability continues to be questionable. I have had quite a few conversations with 991 GT3 owners who have had serious gremlins and multiple engine replacements (even after the design was supposedly fixed) in entirely too low mileages and negligible age. The long term may turn out to be better, but existing owners have well and truly put me off of them personally. If you are thinking long term then you could potentially extend at least a question mark over the e-diff and gearbox too, so only the bravest or wealthiest owners would even entertain running one out of warranty.
Will a 991 continue to hold strong residuals? Maybe - they brought in far more of them than any other GT3, but the market for a jam-friendly easy to drive car is much larger than the traditional GT3 niche so it may or may not hold : we can only speculate.