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21st August 2018, 18:34 #1061
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Yep, plus some of the wealthy rally drivers currently running R5 cars (and even WRC’s) without caring about wins or titles. And if Porsche starts a Rally Cup with good prizes, it wouldn’t be hard to also see young and talented drivers behind the wheel of a Cayman. Fingers crossed.
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21st August 2018, 19:20 #1062
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There is a quite popular bmw m-cup in belgium. There are also quite a few porsche's, we had 10 of them at the start of the tac rally.
And untill they decided to ban the drivers of they won a rally we also had some old wrc cars as an alternative to r5's.
If they can build them cheap, they will sell them. There is a market for powerful rwd cars.
But only is the price and running cost is different enough from an r5.
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22nd August 2018, 08:43 #1063
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Cheap and (new) Porsche don´t mix
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22nd August 2018, 14:34 #1064
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A couple of years ago, a 911 SCRS (an ex-Prodrive unit) got a mind blowing bid of $1.100.000 at the Monterey auctions; owner refused, he was asking 1.4M…
Btw, Porsche Motorsport is still selling Cayman GT4 Clubsport racing units. They’ve announced a price around €120.000 when it was released, at the end of 2015. A road legal rally version would likely cost way more.Rally addict since 1982
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22nd August 2018, 15:18 #1065
Well they are hoping for a cheaper price point than a new R5. They will also be using a factory PDK which will be a lot cheaper to run than a proper sequential such as a Sadev.. A lot cheaper.
The GT4 Clubsport for circuit racing is $165K USD. I'm assuming the rally version will be slightly higher due to underbody protection and all the other rally essentials which are not needed for circuit racing. Say it goes to $170-180k with service intervals much better than an R5 I'm sure gentlemen racers would look into it. The only problem is it would mainly be a tarmac rally car which makes an R5 a much better choice IMO, but that's me.
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22nd August 2018, 15:58 #1066
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If they put a price around or below 120k € they will sell them. If they go higher teams will just buy a second hands r5.
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22nd August 2018, 16:05 #1067
Not going to happen. These will be $160-180 USD or $140+ euros.
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23rd August 2018, 14:02 #1068
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Yep, that looks impossible: Abarth is selling the 124 Rally for €140.000. It’s hard to tell how much a Cayman Clubsport RGT would cost more than the circuit version (btw, there are two of them and the most expensive MR costs over €160k) but, most likely, it will be expensive to buy, although cheap to maintain. Yet the Cayman can still be a good deal if they launch it through a well promoted and big funded Porsche rally cup.
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23rd August 2018, 17:05 #1069
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