Here's Why You Must Buy A Porsche 911 Today -- AFTER/DRIVE

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The air-cooled Porsche 911 has become the poster child of a receding age of cars with driving character. And the prices are reflecting buyers' excitement. Should you get your hands on one now, any way you can, or is there a Porsche 911 bubble waiting to burst? With Zac Moseley and Mike Prichinello from Classic Car Club Manhattan.

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Porsche 964's have the fastest growth/appreciation rate in the last year (IMO). Clearly, I'm a biased. :) LOVE THIS CAR

AMMO-NYC
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I grew up loving the 993 body style, and as time went on, started to really love the 964 lines more. To this day, it is my favorite body style.

kcjones_ddd
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Porsche's were built to RACE. That's the reason the ignition is on the left of the driver. When they were used first for racing, Porsche drivers had the split second advantage of being able to start their cars & be in gear @ the same time, hence, the ignition on the left. I have a 6-speed,  1999, 911-Carerra, Cabriolet. The first year of the water cooled engine. Even after 100, 000 miles. (new muffler, new brakes, new clutch, etc.) It's a GEM. Any Porsche driver knows (IMHO, especially manual transmission divers) that they're truly a car that you become "1" with while operating it.

bheadh
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Two years ago I was at the Porsche North America Road Show, there I fell in love with 911. Last week I picked up a 2011 911 c2s. Life is so good! 

tubesforme
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my grandfather sold his Porsche 930 turbo for $14, 000 in '95. now it's worth more than ten times that.

noahlaughlin
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As much as I love the 60's short-wheel-based and the 964. The 993 is just pure awesome.

parptarf
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Great video on a beautiful car. I don't think the Porsche 911 bubble is going to burst. The masses are finally realizing what the 911 lovers have known for decades; how great this car is, has always has been, and will always be, especially when compared to where the auto manufactures are headed with new cars.

stevebarnette
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Freshman in college and I cant even afford a car but in the future i'm definitely getting a Porsche 964.

nicesneaksatxy
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Greetings from Australia I am lucky enough to own a Porsche 1976 3 liter turbo silver in color. I have done a full restoration to it. I love driving it. Greetings from Australia

ivicamanovic
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In high school it was my dream to own my birthyear 911 (1990) and ever since 2008 I have watched the prices of clean 964's rise steadily. It has been difficult to watch my 'realistic' dream car continually creep out of my reach. 

Thanks for doing this video and continuing to drive the prices up!

Great work again Spinelli & /Drive crew

silvermannnnnnn
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I bought a C2 964 with 173, XXX miles on it last summer. It took a bit of work to get it to be a daily driver, but now it is pretty much my perfect car. Thanks for the video!

PatrickMSchneider
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Had a 1967 911s and drove it until over 250, 000 miles on it. MISS THAT CAR.

kevinvt
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88' 930 owner here. I love this video. I see the comments about being confused, and not following what they are talking about. It is confusing and mind numbing trying to follow all of the model numbers they are throwing around here. 
This is geared towards the Porshephiles for sure. We recognize the internal code numbers that differentiate what the general public only recognizes as a 911.
I think they are pretty accurate with their analysis of the different generations of the 911. I agree that this car is for the driver that wants to challenge their skills at controlling a machine around a curvy road, rather than looking cool pulling up to a casino (although you will).
It's an old addage - it's the supercar that you can drive every day, the race car you can drive on the street.
If you've never driven any version of the 911, I highly recommend it. There is no substitute! 

michaelmichaud
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My 993 is my secret affair, my mistress... My wife once told me that I smile like an idiot whenever I drive it...

GorillaProduction
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great job guys...i hope the manufacturers are watching this to see that there is still a market and a reason to build cars with soul. keep the conversation going!

jennyfromjapan
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I will always long for 930 Turbo. For me that is just perfection, the essence of the 911. I love the style and it reminds me of an era that I was never able to live through, but feel like that's where I belonged. Being 17 I still have plenty of time to be able to and for values to possibly drop, fingers crossed. But that era has a special place in my heart, since a lot of my favorite cars and music come from that time period. So I guess for me I want that car as a reminder of what it was like when I wasn't around and the 930 Turbo is just the perfect car to celebrate that.

IntrepidRacer
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I love that I picked up a 996 for the reasons specified to keep the prices low.  I think it's very analog and water cooled at the same time.  I have replaced my IMS(it was a 2002 so it wasn't 100% required), but I feel better about having it as a daily driver.  What a fantastic car and although I'd love to eventually have a 964 my 996 is only looked down on by Porsche(and some car) fans.  I get compliments almost every time I drive it.  Great drivers car for the money.  Beautiful machine, just like all 911s.

awksedgreep
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I have 3 air-cooled cars. A 69T, a 69S and a supercharged '89 race car done up as a 964RS. The S is being restored, and the T is my DD right now. I can tell you that I have never had more fun in a car than I'm having in the T. The little 2.0 was rebuilt to E spec many years ago, and it's been overhauled again since then. 200, 000+ miles on the clock, paint falling off it, but with a new gearbox in it, and everything beginning to get sorted, the car is transforming from simply fun, to fantastic. The throttle response is like telepathy, and instantaneous, while the heel-and-toe is absolutely sensational, and the easiest of any car I have ever driven. (But only in the LHD cars. Heel and toe is almost impossible in an RHD 911 because of the wrong pedal offset.)

It's not fast by any measure except to normal traffic, and the speed limit, but it FEELS fast. My 928 at 80mph simply feels like it wants to go 50 mph faster, and is quite slow. But in the T the whole car is buzzing along, the steering wheel is alive in your hands, there's smells as well as sights and sounds, too! 

The suspension is capable of handling monstrous potholes, and huge sleeping policemen without so much as a rattle. The tail never feels heavy, provided you go in slow and come out fast, and it has all kinds of traction on its 195 profile tyres and comfort 14" Fuchs. At just 1020 kilos with a full tank of gas, it is a real featherweight, and pulls from 30 mph in 4th extremely well - and in second, with an astounding wail.

Yes the seatbelts are a pain, but the sprung seats are superb, and the gigantic thin-rimmed wheel cannot be shifted at all, without the car changing direction. It is the most sensitive steering I have ever encountered, and very light weight at driving speeds. It dances in your hands as you actually steer through corners, and you can take liberties with it below 40mph, that you'd never even think of in another car.

Yes I have to undo my belt to wind down the passenger's window, and I have to get out of the car to open the brilliant rear windows. There's electric-NOTHING on this car, but the switches on the dash still light up when activated at night, and the instrument lights are dimmable. There's nothing on this car which doesn't need to be there, and everything that should be there is. It holds a crapload of stuff under the hood, and more craploads on the rear seats folded down (and under them) and the stuff can even be tied down using the factory luggage hooks.

I can go away for a week in it, and never worry about anything on the car at all, except checking the oil level before I go, when it's properly warm and idling.

The engineering in the car is amazing, and the 44 year old fan works perfectly after lubricating, and the heating works perfectly, and even though the hazard switch melted down once, due to a short I'd caused, it's now isolated by relays, and I can charge 4 usb devices on it 24/7.

I may never sell it.

Chris.Davies
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I have wanted a 930 since as long as I can remember. My family friend had one when I was young and always drooled over it when we would go to his house. I would wait a little bit then ask the question, "Can we go look at your Porsche?" I have always loved them and can't believe that have sky rocketed in price in the pass couple of years. You guys are so right when you say, "either love it or hate it." Many people that are car enthusiasts as myself when I come to talk about a Porsche they laugh and call it a piece of junk. In recent years I have thought of how I could make the money to purchase a OK condition 930 but have never seen the funds to truly do it. Thanks for all the great videos, very inspiring to here this info.

Brandon

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I just went and bought a 911!







..on Forza FML.

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