The 996 Turbo has stopped being the cheap 911 Turbo: manual coupes now median $85,250 and the 12-month median is up 26.5% to $75,250, while Tiptronics, cabs and accident cars still trade at half the money.






Auctions running in this category right now, appraised against the comparables below. BaT bidding is back-loaded — most money lands in the final minutes — so a low current bid with time left is weak evidence about where a car finishes.

A 32k-mile Arctic Silver/Graphite Grey 996 Turbo manual coupe with the right spec but a dealer's thin paper trail, a 2001 Carfax damage entry and untouched coolant lines — it should hammer in the high $70s, well above the current $34,911.
Bidding: The current $34,911 is far below where this finishes — expect roughly double it by Saturday. Fair value on the information now available is about $75,000-$80,000; that is where I would be prepared to buy, contingent on a PPI arranged before the hammer since the dealer explicitly disclaims inspection contingencies. If the DME comes back clean, paint meter readings are uniform, and the seller answers Henmag's list credibly, $85,000 is defensible for a genuine 32k-mile manual Arctic Silver coupe. Without a DME report and with the 2001 accident undocumented, stop at $80,000 — the $77,575 and $79,500 comps show what the market pays for a low-mileage car whose story cannot be verified. Budget $4-6k on top for coolant lines and tires. Expect the reserve to be met, but only just; if the dealer has anchored on the $88-94k comps rather than the documentation-light ones, this ends RNM in the mid-$70s like the 37k-mile car did on 26 July.

A genuinely rare 15k-mile 2003 X50 manual coupe that has been converted into an unverified ~800hp catless street build with no stock parts — it should clear the modified-car band but stop well short of the $127k a preserved 30k-mile X50 just brought, landing near $100–110k.
Bidding: The current $25,000 shown in the essentials (with a $45,000 bid already posted in the thread) is far below where this finishes — expect the number to roughly double or better in the final minutes. As a buyer, this is worth real money for the 15k-mile 2003 X50 chassis and the OEM GT2 aero, but you are buying somebody else's build with no exit to stock, no cats and no dyno. Bid confidently to $95,000. Go to $105,000 only if the seller documents the turbo build and the coolant pipes and lets a specialist inspect it. Treat $115,000 as your hard stop and walk away entirely above that without a compression/leak-down result — at $120k+ you are paying preserved-X50 money for a modified driver, and the resale audience is the same small tuned-996TT pool that produced $79,500 and $83,000 results this year. Expect it to hammer near $100–108k; if the dealer's reserve sits above $115k, a reserve-not-met is a realistic outcome, and in that case a post-auction negotiation in the high $90s is the better play.
Across all 911 completed BaT auctions the median sold price is $61,251 (mean $65,757, quartiles $48,625–$73,528), but that median is a decade-long artefact. The year-by-year series shows the step change: $45,375 in 2018, $47,000 in 2020, then $64,000–$69,250 through 2021–2023, a soft patch at $63,500 (2024) and $60,500 (2025), and $83,000 so far in 2026 on 53 sales. Rolling 12 months: $75,250 versus $59,500 the year prior, +26.5%. The 2024–2025 dip and the 2026 spike are largely mix — the recent listings skew heavily toward low-mileage manual coupes, X50 cars and Turbo S variants, which is exactly where the money has gone.
The spread is brutal and it is not primarily about mileage. In the deep-analysed set, manual cars median $85,250 (n=32) against $51,500 for the three Tiptronics — and the Tiptronic examples were not junk: 2005 Porsche 911 Turbo S Coupe with a Markski ~600hp build, PCCB and a year of sorting brought $61,500, while commenter TheDaVinci wrote 'man tiptronic really hurts the value on these cars huh? i feel like a 6 speed would've gone for at least double.' At the top, 14,000-mile Augie Pabst Jr.'s 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed made $175,000 and Viola Metallic 2005 Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet 6-Speed made $168,000; the all-time range runs to $441,000 (2024) and $409,996 (2026) for essentially delivery-mileage cars. At the bottom, No Reserve: Modified 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe — Tiptronic, TMU title, TechArt kit — took $42,250.
Mileage matters but only inside spec. The regression across 35 recent cars is loose: 23k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed brought $111,000 while 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed at 81,000 miles brought $91,996, and 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed at 93,000 miles brought $84,500. Roughly: sub-25k manual coupes clear $100k–$141k; 30k–50k cars sit $71,500–$101,000; 75k–100k unmolested manuals still make $76,300–$91,996. Documented Carfax accidents and non-reversible cosmetic work are the reliable discount — commenter denverjaff on 31k-Mile 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed ($79,500 despite 31k miles, single owner and X50): 'Seems like the accident held this one down by $20k+.'
Sell-through is 80.2% (180 of 911 no-sales), and the recent reserve failures are instructive: 37k-Mile 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed stalled at $73,000 with self-performed service and no driving video; 10k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed stalled at $105,000 when BaT's essentials wrongly said 'engine replacement records,' then made $126,000 nineteen days later once the numbers-matching engine was documented — a $21,000 swing on paperwork alone. 2005 Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet 6-Speed stalled at $70,000 with 'towed to shop' and 'won't start' entries buried in its records. In this market bidders pay for evidence, not adjectives.
Manual median $85,250 (n=32) vs Tiptronic $51,500 (n=3) in the analysed subset. 2005 Porsche 911 Turbo S Coupe — a Tiptronic Turbo S with PCCB, Markski ~600hp tune and extensive fresh work — brought only $61,500, and 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe (Tiptronic, 74k miles) made $51,500. Compare 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed at 78,000 miles making $68,000 in stock form.
One-Owner, 17k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed $141,000; 10k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed $126,000; 23k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed $111,000; 23k-Mile 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed $109,100; 24k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed $101,000 — versus 46k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed at $71,500 in similar stock trim.
30k-Mile 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed made $127,000 against $101,000 for the non-X50 24k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed and $86,000 for 30k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed. Even at 93,000 miles and heavily modified, 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed brought $84,500.
31k-Mile 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed — single owner, 31k miles, X50 — made only $79,500 with a 2010 rear-quarter repair on Carfax and no final repair invoice; denverjaff: 'Seems like the accident held this one down by $20k+.' 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed at 99,000 miles with a 2004–05 front-bumper entry made $76,300, which Ravdey called a 'Bargain.' 46k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed with a repainted quarter made $71,500.
36k-Mile 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed — 36k miles, TPC Racing history — made $88,000, and bmdaia's post-sale read was 'Classic 911 Turbo values get punished hard for ECU tune & drivetrain mods... Mods hurt and Silver/Gray doesn't help. Perfect storm.' RWD-Converted 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed made $62,000 despite full engine-out work and Öhlins. No Reserve: 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed Track Car brought $56,500, which krnnerdboy noted was roughly engine-and-transmission parts value.
18k-Mile 2004 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet 6-Speed made $81,500 — a comparable-mileage manual coupe is $110k+ (see 23k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed at $111,000). No Reserve: 38k-Mile 2004 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet 6-Speed $66,500 and 47k-Mile 2004 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet 6-Speed $73,000. Greg_F: 'the turbo cab is the way to go and prices may climb... Buy them while you can at the discounted rate vs a coupe.'
Viola Metallic 2005 Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet 6-Speed made $168,000 — believed 1-of-1 PTS per Rennlist data keeper c041v — against $94,000 for 44k-Mile 2005 Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet 6-Speed in black. Augie Pabst Jr.'s 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed $175,000 on racing-driver provenance. One-Owner, 17k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed in Polar Silver over Boxster Red (c041v: six cars total in that combination) made $141,000. Colour medians in the subset — Black $94,000 (n=5), Arctic Silver $86,250 (n=16), Seal Grey $72,750 (n=6), Basalt Black $51,500 (n=3) — are too thin to lean on beyond noting Basalt cars were also Tiptronics.
33k-Mile 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed made $93,000 against $86,000 for 30k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed. Horatio on 30k-Mile 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed: "'03 is the best year, last of the proper German manufactured GT1 cases and with the strong 2nd gear synchros." bmdaia repeats the claim on almost every 2003 listing. This is enthusiast consensus, not a clean statistical result.
The same car — 10k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed — failed at $105,000 when the essentials wrongly said 'engine replacement records,' then sold for $126,000 once the seller posted the engine number and dealer identification sheet. bmdaia: 'the previous listing tanked by BaT erroneously stating "replacement motor"... Originality is synonymous with "All the money!"' Conversely 37k-Mile 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed died at $73,000; UltimateZo: 'I think 2 things hurt this specific car – self service and no driving video.'
| Spec | Median | Cars |
|---|---|---|
| Manual | $85,250 | 32 |
| Tiptronic | $51,500 | 3 |
| Colour | Median | Cars |
|---|---|---|
| Black | $94,000 | 5 |
| Arctic Silver Metallic | $86,250 | 16 |
| Seal Grey Metallic | $72,750 | 6 |
| Basalt Black Metallic | $51,500 | 3 |
techweenie on 46k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed: 'The closest thing these models have to an achilles heel is the adhesive failures in coolant line connections. They must be pinned or welded at some point in the car's life.' The seller of No Reserve: 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed Track Car — a caged, tuned track car — answered 'To my knowledge the coolant lines have not been pinned or Welded.' The seller of 37k-Mile 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed gave the evasive 'it would be safe to assume they haven't been,' and that car went reserve-not-met. On No Reserve: 38k-Mile 2004 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet 6-Speed, vonmec asked whether pinning was done during the 2021 engine-out service; the seller confirmed it was not — the engine was out and the pipes were left alone. Counterpoint from bmdaia and kmarku across several threads: many 100k-mile cars run original pipes without incident and pinning matters mainly under track/sustained-high-speed use.
Check: Ask directly whether the pipes were pinned or welded, and demand the invoice naming the shop and the method. If the answer is 'not to my knowledge,' budget for an engine-out job ($4-8k of labour bundled with water pump, thermostat, seals) and bid accordingly. On any tracked or tuned car treat unpinned pipes as a hard defect.
thefleshrocket on 10k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed: 'first year model with the transmission that's notorious for second-gear pop-out issues.' Carguybat on 24k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed: "Many '01 6MT's pop out of second gear. It's a relatively simple fix but there is a lot of time involved to get to, and then tear down, the transmission." On the failed 10k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed listing, bmdaia described it as endemic to 2001-2002 hand-assembly with roughly '50-50 probability,' fixed with shims from MY2003. Note 38k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed carried a 2004 warranty-replacement gearbox with hardened synchros and made $94,500 — above most 2001s of similar miles. On 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed (89k miles, $62,500) rob_dysart asked 'Does it pop out of 2nd gear?' and the seller never answered.
Check: On the test drive, hard 3-2 and 2-1 downshifts and a full-throttle 1-2 upshift with light hand pressure off the lever. Ask whether the gearbox has ever been out, and check for a factory replacement G96/50 (post-2003 forged-steel synchros) — that is a value-add, not a warning.
bmdaia's blunt summary on 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe: 'Every 996/997/CGT hydraulic spoiler will fail 100%.' The seller of 47k-Mile 2004 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet 6-Speed disclosed the hydraulics 'started to leak on one side in 2024' and spent $6,600+ on a Rennkit eRam conversion. Original-Owner, 31k-Mile 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed disclosed 'April 2025 service record noted a leak from the tail hydraulics' at only 31k miles. On No Reserve: 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed the seller admitted 'The rear spoiler mechanism does not work,' and on 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe the spoiler had been disabled via micro-switch deletion — only revealed under direct questioning.
Check: Cycle the wing on video, up and down, from cold. Look for hydraulic weep at the rams and at the deck-lid seals. Ask whether the original rams are included if a Rennkit eRam electric kit has been fitted — the OEM parts are worth keeping.
Carguybat on 24k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed: '996tt manual clutch hydraulic system design is terrible. Issues with hydraulic pumps, clutch slaves, clutch master cylinders and accumulators are common.' 18k-Mile 2004 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet 6-Speed had its accumulator replaced in 2019 at very low mileage. 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed (77k miles, $81,500) needed a clutch slave cylinder in the March 2026 engine-out service. On the failed 10k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed listing, Dandan401 questioned a clutch replacement at 5k miles and traderco noted 'similar clutch vacuum assist stiffening issues on low-mileage 996 examples.'
Check: Pedal feel from cold and hot; any stiffening, long travel or a pedal that fails to return. Ask whether the accumulator and slave have been replaced and when. Note that a low-mileage car with a 'preventative' clutch replacement often means a hydraulic problem was chased first.
Leica356 on 30k-Mile 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed: 'The interior has a typical case of that 996 cat scratch fever which is hidden somewhat with the lighting they used.' OakMan on 44k-Mile 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed: 'These carbon parts had a tendency to yellow and delam from the oem plastic underlay parts... Difficult to find pristine carbon on these turbos the factory oem parts have been discontinued.' 46k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed had cracked burr maple and a cracking leather-wood wheel; 30k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed disclosed cracks in its maple near the vents; 2005 Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet 6-Speed had a bubbled dash cover and lifting door-top trim.
Check: Photograph the driver's door threshold, dash top in front of the dials, centre console and steering-wheel airbag cover in daylight. OEM carbon parts are discontinued; budget for a specialist re-wrap rather than replacement. Verify carbon pieces are factory, not later aftermarket panels.
Carguybat on 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed (77k, $81,500): 'Almost every 996tt I have bought with very few exceptions has those cracks in the same spot.' The previous owner of 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed disclosed 'Stress cracks on the taillights,' RWD-Converted 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed showed 'cracked taillight lenses,' and Original-Owner, 31k-Mile 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed disclosed a cracked third brake light seal.
Check: Inspect lens corners around the mounting points and the seal under the third brake light. Cheap to live with, but a seller who missed it missed other things too.
Lesr3204 on 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed (530whp/585wtq): 'if they have been tuned and you constantly run 1.2 bar or boost or higher and you stick with the OW40 oil... you run the chances of bending rods. The solution, run a good higher viscosity oil.' On No Reserve: 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed, bmdaia read the 2013 $17k engine-out rebuild as damage remediation: 'the motor was rebuilt due to damaging harmonics on the IMS thrustplates. And that was quite obviously due to extensive ECU/Turbo remapping.' On the same car the seller could not say whether the coolant pipes had ever been done. Modified, 31k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed carried a 640hp Stage 1 tune, a Carfax 'engine replaced' notation from 2002 and an 18-year documentation gap — it still made $83,000, but the buyer bought a story, not a record.
Check: On any tuned car establish the map, the boost target, the wastegate/actuator hardware and the oil grade used. Ask whether a stock flash is available in the car — several tuned examples could not be returned to stock without hardware changes. Compression and leak-down before purchase.
18k-Mile 2004 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet 6-Speed was on 10-year-old Bridgestones; Original-Owner, 31k-Mile 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed still wore 2010 date-code tyres. 44k-Mile 2005 Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet 6-Speed sheds 'small specs of foam' from the vents — decomposing evaporator foam never addressed. 47k-Mile 2004 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet 6-Speed needed the steering-lock assembly replaced, which the seller called 'a common 996 problem.' 2005 Porsche 911 Turbo S Coupe fitted CSF and Markski all-aluminium units 'to address plastic end-cap failure.' On 30k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed the front diff whine had been present since purchase; bmdaia: '996 diffs will whine just the nature of this beast... Nothingburger IMO.'
Check: Read tyre date codes before you bid. Blast the HVAC and look for foam confetti. Turn the key and listen for a slow-clicking ignition lock. Check radiator/intercooler end caps for weeping. Listen for front differential whine at 30-50mph steady throttle.
Carguybat on Modified, 31k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed: 'if it occurred 50-100 hours ago and I don't hear any strange knocks and compression checks out it is most likely OK to purchase.' On No Reserve: 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed Track Car, UltimateZo found a Range 2 mechanical overrev '2.0 operating hours prior to this readout.' On 36k-Mile 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed, Carguybat computed the overspeed at 'approximately .30 seconds above 7,250 rpms' and dismissed it. On 30k-Mile 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed the seller failed with four different tools before finally getting a PIWIS report late; on 39k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed and Modified 2005 Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet 6-Speed no usable report was ever produced — wirobins called the latter 'disappointingly useless.'
Check: Get a PIWIS or Durametric pull, and read it the way the specialists do: how many operating hours since the last Range 2 event, not the raw count. A Range 2 hit two hours before the readout is a walk-away; one 50-100 hours ago with clean compression is noise.
thefleshrocket on RWD-Converted 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed quoted the earlier auction: 'the seller reports that the car will smoke on startup if the turbos are not allowed to cool.' The seller replied the turbos were inspected during the 2021 engine-out and 'do not smoke now' — unverified. On 33k-Mile 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed, Riv19 flagged startup smoke in the photos and 01996tt reported the same symptom on his own car, resolved by replacing a turbo check valve. On Original-Owner, 31k-Mile 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed the seller initially claimed a cold start then corrected to warm after commenter dez pushed.
Check: Insist on a genuine cold-start video — filmed with the bonnet up if possible — not a warm restart. On RWD-Converted 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed the smoke history only surfaced because a commenter dug up the 2020 listing text.
Driver grade, $45,000–$65,000: Tiptronic coupes, cars with real accident history, TMU titles, or heavily modified examples. 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe (Tiptronic, 74k) at $51,500 and No Reserve: Modified 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe at $42,250 mark the bottom. Assume a $10-15k catch-up on coolant pipes, clutch hydraulics, wing hydraulics and tyres.
Solid manual coupe, 40k–100k miles, clean Carfax, some documentation: $68,000–$95,000. Examples: 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed (78k) $68,000; 46k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed $71,500; 39k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed $77,575; 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed (77k, unmolested, engine-out done) $81,500; 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed (81k) $91,996. Cabriolets sit at the low end of this band: $66,500–$81,500 buys a 18k–47k-mile manual cab.
Strong car — sub-40k miles, manual, clean paint, engine-out service with pinned/welded pipes, real records: $88,000–$115,000. 36k-Mile 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed $88,000; Original-Owner, 31k-Mile 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed $89,000; 33k-Mile 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed $93,000; 38k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed $94,500; 24k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed $101,000. Add roughly $15-25k for a factory X50 in this band.
Best in class — sub-25k miles, X50 or Turbo S, unmolested paint, documented provenance: $111,000–$175,000. 23k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed $111,000; 10k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed $126,000; 30k-Mile 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed $127,000; One-Owner, 17k-Mile 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed $141,000; Viola Metallic 2005 Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet 6-Speed $168,000; Augie Pabst Jr.'s 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe X50 6-Speed $175,000. Above that you are into essentially unused cars ($409,996 and $441,000 in the full record) and a different, thinner market.

Everything stacked: 14,000 miles, one owner, factory X50 ($17,700 option), Arctic Silver over Metropol Blue, racing-driver provenance and a 40-year family friend publicly vouching it never saw winter. Roughly 2.1x the 2026 median of $83,000, and streetroddoc still called it 'a steal' against a 1,600-mile car at $182k.

Believed 1-of-1 paint-to-sample on the 996 Turbo S per marque data-keeper c041v, 21k miles, PCCB, final-year manual Turbo S Cabriolet. It made $74,000 more than 44k-Mile 2005 Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet 6-Speed and $98,000 more than the black 2005 Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet 6-Speed that failed at $70,000 — the colour was the difference.

Polar Silver over Boxster Red with full carbon interior — c041v counted six cars in that combination — plus the original owner's son publicly confirming the 17k miles were weekend breakfast runs. Bought by a dealer, which tells you the trade thought there was still room at $141k.

The floor of the market and a useful lesson in how the discounts compound: Tiptronic, two 'Not Actual Mileage Title Issued' entries, TechArt kit, GT30R turbos, refinished nose and rear fenders, cracked rotor vent holes suggesting undisclosed track use, and an eight-month flip. 31% below the overall median.

A genuine X50 with a Speed Gallery cage, JRZ coilovers and GT2 brakes sold for roughly what krnnerdboy reckoned the engine and gearbox alone are worth. The market paid nothing for the build and something less than nothing for unpinned coolant pipes plus a Range 2 overrev logged two operating hours before the DME pull.

A Turbo S coupe with PCCB, ~600hp Markski build and a year of documented sorting brought $61,500 because it is a Tiptronic. TheDaVinci's comment — 'i feel like a 6 speed would've gone for at least double' — is close to what the transmission split in the data implies.

Best value of the recent set on paper: 2003 X50, manual, 99k miles, all metal panels original per paint meter — sold $76,300 because of a 2004-05 front-bumper Carfax entry and a pre-2016 records gap. Ravdey: 'Bargain.' The buyer inherits an unaddressed coolant-pipe job.
If you want the driving car, buy a 60,000–90,000-mile manual coupe with a documented engine-out service and pinned pipes at $75,000–$90,000. Cars like 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed (77k, $81,500) and 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe 6-Speed (81k, $91,996) show the market barely penalises honest miles on an unmolested Mezger, while it punishes tunes and repaints hard — so let someone else pay $30,000 for the last 40,000 unused miles. If you want the asset, only the top spec has behaved like one: manual coupe, sub-25,000 miles, factory X50 or Turbo S, original paint verified by meter, and a paper trail thick enough that a listing typo cannot cost you $20,000. Budget $110,000–$145,000 there and accept that you are buying at a 26.5% one-year run-up. Tiptronics, non-Turbo-S cabriolets and anything with a body-repair entry are cheap for identifiable reasons; buy them to drive at $50,000–$75,000, not to hold. Whatever the price, the coolant pipes are the single question that should move your bid most: unresolved, they are worth several thousand dollars off, and every fourth listing in this set dodged the question.
These are patterns, not findings. A public auction record cannot show intent, and everything below has ordinary explanations — specialists and dealers bid on many cars of one model, enthusiasts run up cars they end up losing, and new accounts are usually just new. Read them as places to look closely, not as accusations.
Common for a dealer or marque specialist who follows one seller's inventory. It is also the shape worth checking, so here are the listings:
watch Underbidder placed much of the ladder — Askyourwifeb4youbid placed 14 of 40 bids (35%) and did not win. Enthusiastic losing bidders are common; a very high share is still worth reading the thread for.
watch Closing bids came almost entirely from accounts with no posting history — 18 of 18 bids in the final 15 minutes (100%) came from accounts with under 25 lifetime likes (TheGhost365, dalegosfast, hendri30000, Benha). The typical auction for this model runs 56%, so this one is an outlier. Note the measure is weak — likes come from commenting, so a long-time bidder who never posts also scores zero.
watch Closing bids came almost entirely from accounts with no posting history — 11 of 11 bids in the final 15 minutes (100%) came from accounts with under 25 lifetime likes (James158323, Amship, dgreg9, twentyninenine). The typical auction for this model runs 56%, so this one is an outlier. Note the measure is weak — likes come from commenting, so a long-time bidder who never posts also scores zero.
watch Closing bids came almost entirely from accounts with no posting history — 11 of 13 bids in the final 15 minutes (85%) came from accounts with under 25 lifetime likes (MooseC, awescar, schnideo, bjackson88). The typical auction for this model runs 56%, so this one is an outlier. Note the measure is weak — likes come from commenting, so a long-time bidder who never posts also scores zero.
watch Closing bids came almost entirely from accounts with no posting history — 10 of 10 bids in the final 15 minutes (100%) came from accounts with under 25 lifetime likes (Jeremiah56, JollyRogerThat, maram26). The typical auction for this model runs 56%, so this one is an outlier. Note the measure is weak — likes come from commenting, so a long-time bidder who never posts also scores zero.
watch Underbidder placed much of the ladder — pirix placed 5 of 15 bids (33%) and did not win. Enthusiastic losing bidders are common; a very high share is still worth reading the thread for.
watch Closing bids came almost entirely from accounts with no posting history — 13 of 14 bids in the final 15 minutes (93%) came from accounts with under 25 lifetime likes (Jn1911, jacobkashani, mbenj, cgw911). The typical auction for this model runs 56%, so this one is an outlier. Note the measure is weak — likes come from commenting, so a long-time bidder who never posts also scores zero.
watch Closing bids came almost entirely from accounts with no posting history — 12 of 12 bids in the final 15 minutes (100%) came from accounts with under 25 lifetime likes (jkersten, mbawgus1981). The typical auction for this model runs 56%, so this one is an outlier. Note the measure is weak — likes come from commenting, so a long-time bidder who never posts also scores zero.







































