I saw the same with cars at the Newark/Elizabeth port here in NJ.

200K for a porsche sedan with questionable looks in this market seems like a longshot.

 

For a second I thought this was a thread about the Cayenne, same posts if you back a couple years. It was ugly, over priced and it would never do well. The truth is the mighty boxster has done amazing things for the bottom line at Porsche. It out sells everything they put out and its under powered, ugly and often considered over priced. Anything with a the name Porsche will sell and the sedan will as well. Lets look at its competition. BMW has all but killed its company with crappy product design and the Bangle butt. MB has the worst residual values in the world, The Italians are the least dependable cars ever made, some have been shipped without oil pans. Bently is eating up market share left and right. Enter Porsche, a drivers sedan with cutting edge technology, design and it will be the only one without large production numbers. A guy buying an A8 now has a choice, this is a good thing and all of you haters will probably buy one, just like your SUV


As far as the production being shut down goes, gee where are the new cars going? Port to dealer and there they sit and sit. They used to go from Port to dealer right to a waiting pre-purchased customer, those days are gone. You have a 13% mark up in these cars, you'll never get one for 13% off. Take your 7k and be happy. The used cars will continue to tank through winter (like they always do, every year, no matter what the economy is like) and you'll see a bottom in March. FWIW, no one will want an 07 after they drive an 09 with the new management system. All the US dealers were selling their cars overseas for the last 2 years. The domestic market has been dead a lot longer then any of you will admit to.
Now there is no where to sell these cars!
No better time then now to buy a turbo, chances are Porsche will drop the S and not have a 2010 model to delete the current over supply.