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Just for grins, I started to price for me a hypothetical 992, 2020 Porsche. Only the Carrera and the Carrera 4S will be first available. Those models give you 443 HP and 391 TQ.
Without exaggeration, no sarcasm, and with admiration, I think Porsche builds an outstanding car. It is exceptionally well made, with superb assembly craftsmanship and with #1+ engineering.
Here is what is looks like in Porsche’s official pictures:
However, my glowing, proceeding recommendation comes with two major exceptions. For me, they are both epic fails, but maybe not in your opinion:
1. Looks: It is far from attractive in my opinion. However, my gear head wife’s description of its looks would be banned from this forum, so I guess in our family’s opinion, to split the difference, it is not a car we would aesthetically own, e.g., my giving it a C and her giving it a D-.
2. Price: Give this car a flat out “F” in our book.
I just built one at this site:
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a2...-configurator/
Back to pricing, I left out a ton of options, including the custom paint option that can exceed $11,000, skipped the $7,300 AWD (“S” model), went past the $5,560 Burmester sound system, did not check the $3,270 LED matrix headlights, and did not want $2,000 glass sunroof. In addition to those I do not want, especially at those prices, I still left out many more options I wanted to purchase had I won the lottery.
Care to guess what price I got to???
And again for a car with 443 HP, and just 391 TQ...
I exceeded $154,000 — again leaving off a bunch of options I wanted.
No thanks, but lets back up this bus to get back to the overriding reason even more important than price, and that is neither my wife nor me can not get past its looks.
For those however, who lust after its looks, and can cope with such pricing, you might enjoy its price configurator linked above.
I will happily select most of the options for my 2020 entry C8, and still have an extra $50,000 left over which will go in the bank — as initial savings for our C8 Z06.
Without exaggeration, no sarcasm, and with admiration, I think Porsche builds an outstanding car. It is exceptionally well made, with superb assembly craftsmanship and with #1+ engineering.
Here is what is looks like in Porsche’s official pictures:
However, my glowing, proceeding recommendation comes with two major exceptions. For me, they are both epic fails, but maybe not in your opinion:
1. Looks: It is far from attractive in my opinion. However, my gear head wife’s description of its looks would be banned from this forum, so I guess in our family’s opinion, to split the difference, it is not a car we would aesthetically own, e.g., my giving it a C and her giving it a D-.
2. Price: Give this car a flat out “F” in our book.
I just built one at this site:
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a2...-configurator/
Back to pricing, I left out a ton of options, including the custom paint option that can exceed $11,000, skipped the $7,300 AWD (“S” model), went past the $5,560 Burmester sound system, did not check the $3,270 LED matrix headlights, and did not want $2,000 glass sunroof. In addition to those I do not want, especially at those prices, I still left out many more options I wanted to purchase had I won the lottery.
Care to guess what price I got to???
And again for a car with 443 HP, and just 391 TQ...
I exceeded $154,000 — again leaving off a bunch of options I wanted.
No thanks, but lets back up this bus to get back to the overriding reason even more important than price, and that is neither my wife nor me can not get past its looks.
For those however, who lust after its looks, and can cope with such pricing, you might enjoy its price configurator linked above.
I will happily select most of the options for my 2020 entry C8, and still have an extra $50,000 left over which will go in the bank — as initial savings for our C8 Z06.
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