IMO - it’s almost never worth temporarily getting a mass produced car to hold you over, unless you’re chasing something quite rare.

You’re going to lose minimum 10k if you trade it in 1 day later at the dealer. A carrera S, 4S, or even a base GT3 isn’t too difficult to find (despite what the dealer says there are hundreds for sale right now).

You’re better off looking through the entire inventory in the US and just negotiating free delivery to your address.

You can definitely do this. It’s going to be more expensive than driving a ford focus… but you only live once so just decide if that cost is worth it to you at this point

EVs are lame. Neutered. Great cars for non car people. I don’t see why they have to make LAWS about these things.

You can look at caredge.com or whatever source you want. Idk where you live, but where I am people definitely treat their Macans and cayennes as daily drivers. No one treats these as anything THAT special. I don’t think these cars are treated well on resale. Panameras and cayennes get crushed on resale

A lot of people have said these things elsewhere, but here are some things to be cautious about/aware of:

1. For most mass produced Porsches (panamera, cayenne, some 911/718 variants), the expectation you should have is that the car fully depreciates over about 10-15 years. So even if a 2014 panamera for 30k or 997 C4S at 60k or whatever seems like a good deal, just remember this car could potentially only be useable / worth anything to anyone for a few more years, and then that entire cost will be sunk. The opportunity cost would be purchasing a Toyota Camry or Lexus GX, respectively, that would have lasted you 10-15 more years. I think sometimes people forget this, but the statistics do not support the panamera, cayenne, or macan lasting longer than any other brand.

2. The maintenance costs do not depreciate with time or become equivalent to a 30k car like a Toyota. The cheapest ownership period is years 0-5 and then from there all bets are off.

3. People are often selling for a reason, ie “i don’t want to deal with X maintenance/repair issue.”

I may get a lot of downvotes for this, but if you are buying a new 150-200k car, I would tell you to expect it’s real cost with regard to depreciation, loan interest (if applicable), maintenance, etc. to end up being approximately 15-20k per year. That’s A LOT.