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Porsche Cayman S
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Put in the asking price and the odometer reading. You will see what this model should make at that reading.
Odometer only. Colour, options, history, condition and the photographs move it further, and that is what the report reads.
Price history
The verdict
Recorded sales
Every row, with its price and note (2) ↓
Score breakdown
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
What it costs to own · about 5,806 km a year
Specification
What moves the price on this model
Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.
Projected value in five years
The case for and against
The 9A1 engine removed the 987.1 reliability discount that hangs over the earlier car, and the manual six-speed is the configuration buyers hold out for - the one Australian manual result is 44 per cent above the one PDK result. Only 174 are thought to remain registered here.
Running costs are Porsche running costs against a value that has just been cut by a fifth, which takes the annual cost of ownership to 11.4 per cent of what the car is worth - among the worst ratios in this library. Both Australian results are from 2023, both from Queensland, and one of the two was sold with a security interest logged against its VIN, so the sample is narrow as well as old.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
A six-speed manual 987.2 Cayman S showing 65,092 kilometres made $73,234 at Cleveland in Queensland in May 2023. A PDK car showing 164,061 kilometres made $51,000 at Alice River in November 2023. This record carried $89,263 - a figure no Australian transaction had ever supported, and one that sits 22 per cent above the better of these two before any adjustment for the fact that the better one is also the lower-distance car.
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Holding this record's 6 per cent manual premium fixed and solving the pair simultaneously for a standard-car value and a distance slope returns 2.8 per cent per 10,000 kilometres and $68,458 at the expected 90,000. There are no degrees of freedom left, so there is no error estimate and no residual to inspect: the fit is exact because it must be, not because it is right.
The Alice River car is doing more than carrying distance. It is on lowering springs and aftermarket discs, and a security interest was logged against its VIN on the personal property register at the time of the sale - an encumbrance a bidder prices in whether or not it is discharged at settlement. Each of those depresses it independently of the odometer, so 2.8 is an upper bound on what distance alone costs rather than a measurement of it. At 2.4 the manual result implies $69,103, and that is where the value goes: $89,263 to $69,000.
At 1.1 the two results de-adjust to $71,281 and $58,857 - a twelve thousand dollar disagreement about the same car in the same year. Whatever else is uncertain here, 1.1 was wrong.
Twelve dated service entries and a Porsche Centre major service eight months before the sale, against four owners and a partial book on the manual. The gearbox and the odometer beat the paperwork, which is the reverse of what this library usually finds and is worth watching for in the next result.
So the value line runs flat from there rather than being carried upward. This record previously claimed manual cars appreciate about 4 per cent a year; no Australian evidence measures that, and the claim has been removed rather than restated.
A manual result after 2023. Both cars here are Queensland lots sold seven months apart, and one of them is encumbered. That is a narrow window on which to hang a national value. SOURCING: aggregator-surfaced auction results, not confirmed against the auction house, the weakest evidence grade in this library.
The report prices the car in the advertisement.
Send the link. A person reads the advertisement and its photographs and sends back what that Porsche Cayman S is worth, what to offer and when to walk away, with five years of costs at the distance you drive.
The evidence on this model is thin and the report says so on its cover. Read a complete one on a real car first. Seventeen sections, no account, nothing to pay.
One line of email when this desk publishes a call on a Porsche Cayman S, or records a new Australian sale of one. Nothing else, no schedule, and on a quiet model you may hear nothing for months, which is itself worth knowing about a car you are chasing.