Everyone knows 1948 Speedsters will be made. That's more than 918 and 911R in total.

If using 1/3 total as the basis for calculating US allocations, which is usually the case as the US is about 1/3 of the total volume for Porsche, that's 650 cars.

US might get more than that, say round it up to 700.

At last count, the number of 918 VIPs left in the program is roughly 200. That's about a car per dealer in the USA, leaving 500 for other people. 

Now each dealer is assigned different number of allocations, based on their sales history. Some bigger dealers will get more simply because they sold more cars. For some small dealers, their only Speedster allocation maybe for their sole 918 VIP. For others, they might be stuck with one Speedster allocation that no one in their area wants as they don't even have a 918 VIP. And the rest? They will get more Speedster allocations than their 918 VIPs, so they are trying to maximize their gouging of customers for the non-VIP allocations. Reality of US dealers, they lose out on having to sell to 918 VIPs at MSRP so instead of being a good dealer and sell everything at MSRP, they will make up their perceived 'lost profit' on other customers. 

US dealers are the biggest flipper of cars, they hog the allocations and config them and resale them with giant mark ups, cutting out customers who prefer to get a real allocation and config the cars themselves. 

 


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