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Originally Posted by BlkGS
The real answer is all these different trim levels give all these rich guys an excuse to make themselves feel more special.
The Carrera T for example is a "lightweight" version that is marginally lighter than a regular one, but it gives buyers the option to pay a premium to say how they can feel the barely existent difference and how it's "so much more direct and focused". Or you can buy a GTS and talk about how "it's like a race car for the street because it has monoblock wheels".
They sell all these different trims so that the mostly older buyers of these cars can sit around at Porsches and Pancakes and talk at length about how they're different and toot their own horns.
I've been there. My father had a 997.2 S and a 993, both were great cars, but the PCA crowd even then was getting overrun with big bank accounts losers. The sad part was a lot of the older PCA crowd was just enthusiasts. Porsche didn't really start to attract these owners until the very end of the 997 run.
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^Excellent post! My thoughts exactly about the majority in this crowd. The Porsche crowd has definitely changed, that is for sure. It is largely a group of ultra wealthy dudes showing off their flashy "rare" cars, talking about their "journey" of buying the car (makes me want to punch babies), how their overweight 911 weighs 40lbs less because of some select de-contenting Porsche did to upcharge and make the car special. There is a subset of us that modify and work on our cars, drive them hard, and don't give a rat's ass about rarity or the like. These guys are unrelatable.