
Porsche 911 R
Reference — shown, never scored
Why 5.1: The GT3 RS drivetrain in a lighter, wingless, manual-only body — Porsche's purest analog argument in the modern 911 range. 991 cars built, five and six-figure flips within days of delivery, and current auction results still running roughly four times over sticker.
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · $185k (2016) → $780k (2026), trending up · illustrative data
The long version
Porsche built exactly 991 of these, and buyers who actually wanted to drive a manual-only, wingless GT3 RS got outbid before the paperwork was signed — flip listings appeared within days of the first deliveries, some at double sticker before an owner had put a mile on the clock. That immediate speculative frenzy set the tone for a decade: recent auction results in the $750,000–$800,000 range, roughly four times the original MSRP, keep the surviving population firmly in climate-controlled storage. The engineering underneath is arguably the most analog thing Porsche has built this century; almost nobody buying one today is finding that out themselves.