Another Porsche

[TBP88]

Coming up to a year of ownership. Covered 5k kms in these 12 months.

No negative experience to report, as I continue to enjoy the Cayman and owning a Porsche.

As I start wondering “where to from here” I have a few pending decisions to make. Namely, extend plan, sell and buy another Porsche, or take a risk and keep the car without the plan. I’m currently on 51k kms.
Leaning towards at least another year with the car as I’m not ready to let it go or believe that I’ve enjoyed the car enough.
Also, a replacement would have to be really special to match or be better, and that will come at a significant cost which, to me, doesn’t make sense.

I may look at rather adding another “toy” to the garage at this stage.

Have about a week to make my decision as I’ve already got a decent offer from Porsche to buy back. Not much stock of these cars (if any) within the Porsche network.

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extend plan and make a call in a year perhaps. I'd be very weary ordering a new car now with the mooted price increases and the potential for tariffs to cause havoc with things it might be best to hold off.
Not sure what your natural upgrade looks like from here though, if it's within reach maybe it's worth stretching before the prices truly do become astronomical?

 

[Nish_H]

extend plan and make a call in a year perhaps. I'd be very weary ordering a new car now with the mooted price increases and the potential for tariffs to cause havoc with things it might be best to hold off.
Not sure what your natural upgrade looks like from here though, if it's within reach maybe it's worth stretching before the prices truly do become astronomical?

I’m leaning towards keeping the car and extending plan.
Or if I do change, I still want to stay with the Cayman platform for now and get a GT4, but the 981.

 

[TBP88]

I’m leaning towards keeping the car and extending plan.
Or if I do change, I still want to stay with the Cayman platform for now and get a GT4, but the 981.

They are truly stunning cars - and the prices really have become vaguely reasonable when a 325ci E46 is north of R200k, a GT4 around the low-mid R1m mark seems relatively decent value to me.

 

[Red Line]

Awesome car Nish! Looks amazing in red. Have driven a GT4 and it is absolutely such a connected drive. The GT4s are becoming more and more attractive given the price and the pure driving feel you get from it. It u can find a nice GT4 for a decent price on plan, i say grab it.

 

[Del-Bosc]

I’m leaning towards keeping the car and extending plan.
Or if I do change, I still want to stay with the Cayman platform for now and get a GT4, but the 981.

I would bite the bullet and commit to 718 gt4 or 4.0 gts cayman. The 4.0’s are not going to lose much money especially the manual cars. Porsche Jhb has two gt4 manuals no buckets though. Also the 718s have longer time before they become ineligible for plan extensions.

The thing to note on the 981 gt4 is some cars noted gearbox issues I think is was second or third gear related and some gt4 caymans noted engine issues. I looked at a red one years back at Porsche Jhb and both these issues were present, complete engine replacement was done on it.

Whatever you choose I think stick to a n/a motor, trust me I was in the same boat few years back and nothing, under 2bar, scratched the itch of driving a n/a Porsche besides another n/a flat six.

 

[Nish_H]

Made my decision to keep the car for at least another year, unless a really good deal comes my way during this period.

Extended the plan and will be sorted for the next 12 months.