Let me start with this. If you want to get a brand-new Porsche 911 Turbo, it is going to cost you a minimum of $160,000 and will likely end up running somewhere north of $200K once you add fee options. If you doubt this, visit the Porsche website, “build” one and see how you do.
Besides the economic to your bank account, there is another reason to reconsider a new Porsche 911 Turbo as a car purchase: The newest version, to me, is both too big and not that attractive.
I honestly think the best-looking 911 Porsches of the modern era are the 997 Series cars. These Grant Larson-designed 911s are the perfect modern take on the classic 911 shape. Every subsequent design seems to have slowly erased the original design language, making the newer 911 cars appear almost “cartoonish” to my eyes.
Of all the 997-era 911 Porsches, my favorite is the Turbo. It is less ostentatious than the original 911 Turbo of the 1970s and ’80s but looks like it means business and has the performance to back that up.
Our Pick of the Day on ClassicCars.com is one of these end-of-an-era Porsche 911 cars, a 2011 Porsche 911 Turbo offered for sale in Flowery Branch, Georgia.
The selling dealer states this 911 Turbo has a completely stock exterior, interior, exhaust and catalytic converters. They go on to say it is currently running a Stage 3 tune from FVD (a very prestigious and respected German company) that provides a reliable 670 horsepower and a 0 to 62.5 time of 3.2 seconds.
This 911 Turbo is a lower-mileage car, having covered only 67,000 miles from new and, judging from the photos provided, it looks to be in excellent condition.
This is also a nicely optioned car equipped with many tasteful features without going overboard. These include a limited-slip rear differential, PDK transmission, heated and ventilated seats, heated steering wheel, bi-xenon headlights with the Porsche Dynamic Light System (PDLS), and a black full leather interior with the carbon interior package.
This 911 Turbo also seems to have a great service history backed up by documentation. No really major service items are listed, but a 2011 Porsche 911 Turbo with 67,000 miles should not need any major things repaired or replaced.
Just for a point of comparison, I went on the Porsche website and built a new 911 Turbo as close as possible to the specs of this one. The summary of my build had a price tag of $219,685. I have a better idea. Get this 997.2-era Porsche 911 Turbo for its $98,000 asking price and then take the extra $112K and get another Porsche (say, a classic 911) to go with it. Seems like a better deal to me.
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