Jackzi said:But it still hurts to think that a 'regular' 996 is now 20k considering what the prices were like a couple of years ago.
Will it stay that way is the crystal ball question.
Are they really 20K now? I don't check that often but i would have thought maybe 15K for an early (some say the best) 3.4. And while there are cheap cars out there, they're probably pretty rough and need a few grand in the short term, or tip convertibles. If you try to find a 3.4 manual 2wd they seem hard enough to find at all.
So the question the OP asks is, why is it so hard to buy? I would reverse that. Should people really be able to expect to buy a brilliant car like a 996, 175mph, sub 5 secs 0-60, legendary handling and driving pleasure, a tremendous heritage, bullet proof reliability for it's category, and we can now add a host of vanishing wonders like the internal combustion engine, simple, analogue driving controls, a thing of beauty, something you could pass down in the future and something with appreciating values - should people really expect to be able to walk out there and pick up a shining immaculate example for 15K? Or even 20K? And above. Just as we're looking back at 20K turbos now, in a year or two, that practically hand rebuilt RPM Technik 996 for 25K will seem like such a bargain.