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Valuation · Porsche · 993 · 1995-98

Porsche 911 Turbo

3.6L twin-turbo air-cooled flat six · 300 kW / 540 Nm · 6sp manual · AWD
CONSIDERRated within the over $100k band · 48 of 104 at this money
Research estimate
$775,000
Must gain each year to break even
+4.6%
The projection does not clear it, and nor does most of the library.
CarQuant score
62/100
Scored against the over $100k band, not the whole library
Evidence grade
Asks only
Advertisements only; an ask is not a transaction
$775,000
$608,957 lowhigh $1,315,893
Asking prices only, no recorded sale
No publishable Australian result of any kind. The only local number is a $600,000 expectation attached to Kerry Packer's own car in April 2022, which is an expectation rather than a sale.
Measured across this library, a value with no Australian result behind it runs high about seven times in ten, by a median of ten per cent. Read this one as a ceiling rather than a midpoint.

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Should make, typical example
$775,000
At about 21,000 km. Enter an asking price to compare.

No Australian sale stands behind this value, so treat the figure as indicative.

We will not sell a report on this car. The check above stays free.

Price history

Today $775,000 · modelled median at five years $909,405
Solid line: the value this library has carriedDashed from 2026: modelled · even money $751,369 to $1,123,218
The green band is the even-money range and the one to plan on: half of outcomes land inside it. The pale band behind it bounds eight in ten ($608,957 to $1,315,893). The path is this model's own: it starts along the momentum of its recorded history and bends toward its projected median as the horizon lengthens, so no two cars share a future curve.

The verdict

A defensible case with reservations. Scores 62/100, ranking 48 of 104 in the over $100k band. Demand durability is the strongest input, risk resilience the weakest.
Running it costs about $27,750 a year (3.6% of value), which is what the economics score measures. All in, including the projected value change, it is $11,099 a year.
The model's five year median is $909,405, a +17.3% move, with the tenth percentile at $608,957.
Value is research, not a measurement. Treat the level as indicative and the structure as the analysis.
Evidence
Asks only0 recorded sales
Off its peak
at peak
Value band
wide
An external source, but no itemised transactions. Indicative only.
Scored against every recent Australian sale this library holds, half its values land within 11.2 per cent of the price paid and the rest miss by more, in either direction. Projections are therefore damped toward flat in proportion to how little is known, and the plausible band is never narrower than the error the model is known to make.
Short term (1-5 years)$11,099 a year all in, +17.3% median value move
Long term (10-15 years)Scarcity case already formed
Negotiate from$775,000

Recorded sales

Every recorded observation, and when
1 row on record
Every row, with its price and note (1) ↓
Apr 2022Drive$600,000Asking
ASKING. Kerry Packer's own 1995 993 Turbo, 35,000km, silver over blue leather, full service history, offered at The PorschaDen Classic in Armadale VIC and expected to fetch in excess of $600,000. An expectation attached to a celebrity-provenance car, not a result.
0 completed Australian sales of 1 rows. Rows marked asking, no sale, or context are shown for honesty but do not count toward the evidence grade: an ask is not a transaction, a pass-in is a refusal, and a provenance or overseas result does not price the ordinary local car. The badge on every row is computed by the same rule as the grade, so the two cannot drift apart.

Score breakdown

Against the over $100k band median
104 cars in band · ink tick marks the median
Ownership economics30% of total
75/100+6
Scarcity25% of total
62/100-3
Demand durability20% of total
88/100+10
Liquidity15% of total
42/100+10
Risk resilience10% of total
0/100-34
Sub-scores run 0-100 before weighting; the weighted total is 62/100. Medians are computed live from the 104 cars currently in the over $100k band, so this picture moves when the library does.
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
Ownership economics30% weight
75/100
Baseline84 pts
− 3.6% of value a year to run-9 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)75 pts
Scarcity25% weight
62/100
Baseline20 pts
+ 68 survivors estimated in Australia+42 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)62 pts
Demand durability20% weight
88/100
Baseline68 pts
+ The last air-cooled Turbo, and forty cars came here new+18 pts
+ A verifiable one-of-forty claim is worth 20 to 35 per cent+10 pts
− Imports may now roughly equal the original deliveries-8 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)88 pts
Liquidity15% weight
42/100
Baseline12 pts
+ 90 days on market+22 pts
+ 6 sales a year+8 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)42 pts
Risk resilience10% weight
0/100
Baseline40 pts
− No published Australian result of any kind exists-16 pts
− Over-boost detonation means an $85,000 engine rebuild-14 pts
− With so few cars a single sale moves the published market-10 pts
− Asking prices only, and an ask is not a sale-12 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)0 pts
Model output, not advice or a valuation. Verify independently before acting.

What it costs to own · about 2,500 km a year

Annual cost of access, excl. fuel
$27,750a year
Share of value per year
3.6%
Scheduled servicing$6,25023%
Tyres, annualised$4,25015%
Registration and CTP$3,33012%
Insurance$7,92029%
Sinking fund (failure table)$6,00022%
All-in annualised (a different number)
Purchase (model value plus duty)$806,000
Running costs × 5 years$138,750
Median exit, net of selling cost$889,255
All-in annualised over 5 years$11,099/yr
Share of value per year1.4%
Cost of access is what the car costs to run. All-in annualised adds depreciation, duty and selling costs across a five year hold. They answer different questions and are labelled separately for that reason.
Break-even appreciation, 5 year hold
4.6%a year, only to get the money back
This library projects
+3.3%a year
The projection falls 1.3 points a year short of the hurdle. On these assumptions this car is a cost, not an asset, which can be an entirely rational thing to buy but should be bought knowing it.
Purchase$775,000
Stamp duty$31,000
Running costs x 5 years$138,750
Selling cost at exit, 2.6% of the salescales with price
Sale price needed at +5 years$969,969
Storage
Bought at
No forecast is used to compute the hurdle. It is the purchase, the duty, any premium and 5 years of running cost, grossed up for the cost of selling and spread back over the hold. The projection it is measured against is the weakest number in this product and is drawn that way in the chart above. Transport, finance and any restoration spend sit outside it.

Specification

Engine3.6L twin-turbo air-cooled flat six
Power / torque300 kW / 540 Nm
0-100 km/h4.4 s
Transmission6sp manual
DriveAWD
Kerb weight1,500 kg
Built worldwide5,978
Delivered to Australia40
Effective AU survivors68
Australian sales / year6
Typical days on market90 days
Launch price$301,220

What moves the price on this model

Colour hierarchy
Original paint, unresprayed+10%
Silver over blue leather, as delivered+2%
Resprayed, even in the original colour-10%
Options
A documented one of the forty Australian-delivered cars+30%
Unmodified and unchipped, with no over-boost history+20%
Turbochargers and Big Reds serviced with receipts+10%
Odometer sensitivity±2.3% per 10,000 km vs 21,000 km
Applied on top of these

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

Projected value at five years
$909,405
+17.3% on today
The model's figure. Today it is $775,000.
Even odds it lands between $751,369 and $1,123,218.
$608,957 lowhigh $1,315,893
The shaded range is even money and 49% wide; the outer figures bound eight outcomes in ten. Band width follows the evidence - a model with a tight measured record carries a tight band.
A stronger five year outlook than 80% of the library.
-26.6% weakest projected move in the librarystrongest +73.1%
Five-year cost of ownership
Value change alone: +$134,405 across five years.
Running costs over the same period: $138,750.
Duty and expected selling costs: $51,150.
Net cost of five years of ownership: $55,495, or $11,099 a year.
The projected value rise offsets part of the running cost. It does not make the car free to own.

The case for and against

The case for

Forty cars were sold new here between 1995 and 1998 at $301,220 before options and on-roads, the only hard Australian delivery figure verified anywhere in this tranche, so a one-of-forty claim can actually be checked. The model roughly doubled globally between 2020 and 2024 and Australia has followed at a lag.

The case against

There is no published Australian result for this car at any price. An estimated 25 to 45 further cars have been privately imported, so the imported pool may now roughly equal the original deliveries, and an over-boosted engine is an $85,000 rebuild.

Known faults and risks

Risk 1No Australian transaction record exists to test this value against
Risk 2Chipped or over-boosted cars risk an $85,000 engine rebuild
Risk 3Imports from Britain, Japan and Hong Kong may now equal local deliveries
Engine rebuild after over-boost detonation damage - why an unmodified, unchipped car carries such a premium$85,000
Twin KKK K16 turbochargers, rebuild or replace as a pair$18,500
Secondary Air Injection and carbon in the heads, worse consequences than on the Carrera$13,000
Big Red brake overhaul$11,000
Clutch and dual-mass flywheel on the heavy AWD driveline$9,000
Cracked exhaust manifolds and cross-pipes$9,000

Similar cars, and what they cost to run

Evidence behind this valueAsks only · 0 recorded sales
Carried value
$775,000
Historical price
2016 · $480,5002026 · $775,000
Asks only
An external source, but no itemised transactions. Indicative only.
The best-documented delivery figure in the tranche and the worst-evidenced price

Exactly forty 993 Turbos were sold new in Australia between 1995 and 1998 at a launch price of $301,220 before options and on-roads. That is the only hard Australian delivery number verified for any car in this set - every other delivery figure here is an estimate - and it makes a one-of-forty claim genuinely checkable, which is worth 20 to 35 per cent.

Read the rest of the evidence notes (3 more)
There is no Australian sale

Not a thin record, none. The single local number in circulation dates from April 2022, when Kerry Packer's own 1995 car - 35,000km, silver over blue leather, full service history - was offered at a specialist dealer in Armadale, Victoria and expected to fetch in excess of $600,000. An expectation attached to a celebrity-provenance car is not a market price and it does not set this value.

The supply maths cuts both ways

An estimated 25 to 45 further cars have been privately imported from Britain, Japan and Hong Kong, so the imported pool may now roughly equal the original forty, which softens the scarcity case at the same time as it deepens the market. With a population this small a single sale moves the published market, which is why the value carries a low confidence and a wide band from $500,000 to $1,350,000.

The fault that sets the premium

An over-boosted engine is an $85,000 rebuild, which is precisely why an unmodified, unchipped car is worth so much more than a fast one.

What we will not sell you
We will not price a Porsche 911 against an advertisement.

No Australian transaction stands behind this value. A spec-adjusted figure built on it would look precise and would not be, so the report is refused instead of sold with a caveat. That goes for this car and 87 others. Everything above is free and stays free.

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