The 911 had everything to be the perfect sport car and I was very proud and content to own one over a decade ago. It was just perfect: convertible, AWD, 4 seats, sporty, well designed, unique and fun (red/tan), manual, fast and noisy and fulfilling a lot of emotions, good tech and nav, and on top of it it was a fantastic value (cheap MRSP and awesome residual values). It also had good hp. It was unbeatable.

Fast forward to today, a 911 GTS is boring, sounds like a vacuum cleaner or no noise at all, tech is behind the most advanced ones, design is at best boring and at most ugly with the black bar in the rear or completely unoriginal, rear seats are no bigger than before despite the car becoming large and fat and the prices have become astronomical with terrible residual values. HP is far behind the competition that has moved further with things like carbon tubs and such. The emotion and coolness part has moved to the GTx line with a big increase in number of car produced and a much more docile vehicles and some remnant of perceived value because of high demand from speculators.

So indeed, there are no more 911 that ticks the boxes and many even here are looking elsewhere.

Porsche is dong fine because the world is now much richer and we have enjoyed a 10 year golden economic era, and because the bean counters and marketing is doing an amazing job.