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1. Instead of making 911 fans happy and make a 911 R available to everyone who wants one, they make it limited edition. I would have gladly paid more to have the 911 R tech in my 991.1 GTS.

Instead they decided to aggravate enthusiasts by showing that car off and promoting exposure in major magazines and making it available only to a small group of "priviledged" 918 guys (in US at least).

The bulk of Porsche fans who would love to get the 911R and enjoy it, would not have been able to afford the 918 to begin with, just to be allowed to purchase more affordable cars.

YEP - Realize it guys! The biggest mistake we made is that we didn't order a 918. I remember very well that it took ages for Porsche to sell those cars. In the beginning they been sitting  like old bread! Today, you could have earned a nice amount and on top of it you would have been able to buy an GT3RS, GT4, Boxster Spyder, 991R. On each you could have made nice money again and again and also enjoying some serious fun!

Here is the problem, like a vast majority of Porsche enthusiasts, I simply could not afford to buy the 918, no matter how badly I wanted that car.

I can easily afford a 911R though  but am not allowed to buy it since I did not spent close to a $million on the 918.

I don't think it's fair and turns me off regarding any future purchases from this manufacturer.

And that's why the next GT3 will have manual as an option!

90% of the people that don't have the R but wanted the R want it for the wrong reason, they smell the appreciating price potential.

For 90% of the owners of the 918 who got an R, they don't give a shit about the potentially higher selling price on the secondary market, their other investment will make that sum in a month or a day. Of that 10% left, 90% of that 10% will be US dealers who flips them. Which also gives 918 owners a bad name from that 9%.

Porsche knows their clients' demographic well, they treated US dealers like royalties, they will turn a blind eye to whatever they do. They will just be the bad apples among their faithful clients. For the other 91% of 918 owners who got an R, they also bought the RS, the GT4 and countless other Porsche cars, future and present,, it's a bet Porsche made and paid off well.

"Normal' customers can bitch all they want, but they are not the ones that buy 4-6 Porsche's a year, they buy one every 4 years or something. I guess I could be counted as a typical high end Porache customer, after the 918 I bought the RS, I skipped the GT4 but I bought the GT4 ClubSport, I also have an R coming, a Cayenne Turbo S arriving in Sept, deposit down for the next GT3, the next Panamera Turbo S, and the Misson E. That's 6 cars right there after the 918.

The truth hurts.

This is exactly what I'm saying. You for yourself, you might keep many of your cars. But matter in fact, there are many out there which owned their 918 just one day longer than necessary and are now in the queue for all the nice goodies. Those goodies are extremely stable in price - no risk to buy 4 cars a year. They are great fun-investments with a relatively low risk. 

But the problem is a different one: We could see in the last half/years number that the hype flattens down. 3% growth after 30% a year ahead. It speaks for  itself. Enthusiasts like @abscent or many others of us, they want those sporty cars, they want their radical Porsches. They don't want their every day shopping Porsche. Now as they build one, just offer it to the majority. What is wrong with that engine, that you can't build 5000 pieces more of it? Put it in the GT3 and increase the number of GT3s build annually. Everyone would be happy. And the "real fan" is buying that car even if it is an investment or not. He would drive it and not having it as a "polishing pussy" sitting and waiting in his garage.