Porsche 944 Turbo
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Price history
The verdict
Recorded sales
Every row, with its price and note (11) ↓
Score breakdown
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
What it costs to own · about 3,200 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 performance pick of a whole Porsche era being repriced, with the 968 and 928 already posting public results underneath it. Scarce in Australian delivery and mechanically honest when maintained.
Nine Australian results, and price has fallen about $5,500 a year across them. A maintenance history requirement that most cheap-era owners did not meet, and the ceiling is watched: transaxle cars follow the 911 market rather than lead it.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
The correlation between distance and price across the nine is PLUS 0.043 - not weak, not the wrong sign, simply absent. The two results that prove it: $61,000 at 254,351 kilometres in May 2022 and $28,250 at 235,117 kilometres in June 2026. Nineteen thousand kilometres apart and the higher one made more than double. This is the second record in the library where distance does not price the car, alongside the MX-5 NA, and it is now the flattest: kmPct moves from 1.0 to a nominal 0.3 and no thesis written off this record should lean on the reading.
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Is belt and water pump history, whether the car has been off the road, and interior condition on forty-year-old plastics.
Which sits between the mean of the nine at $41,139 and the median at $42,999. This record carried forty per cent above what the model actually trades at. SOURCING: aggregator-surfaced results, unconfirmed against the auction house, the weakest evidence grade here.
A 1987 944 Turbo with 235,117 kilometres sold from Ashmore, Queensland in June 2026 for $28,250. That is a worn car - nearly twice this record's expected kilometres - and the site's own adjustments back-solve it to roughly $41,500 for a fair standard example. A value of $72,000 asked the market to believe a good car is worth two and a half times a running, driving, complete one, and no evidence supported that.
Above the back-solved fair car by the margin a genuinely good example earns, and consistent with the 968 - the later, torquier, better-built development of the same platform - at $53,500 in February 2022. A 944 Turbo in strong order should clear a 968, not double it.
One sale of one high-kilometre car is a floor measurement, not a market. The first good-condition Australian result will move this number and should.
The 951 was the transaxle Porsche done properly - 162kW, balanced to near 50:50, and the fastest four-cylinder production car of its day. The market has never paid transaxle Porsches what air-cooled 911s of the same era earn, and after thirty years of waiting for that to change, the honest reading is that it is the value, not a mispricing.
The $42,999 result of 19 January 2024 and the $44,000 result of 2 September 2025 are the same car. Both read 205,549 kilometres. Both are Guards Red LM3A over Black A11. Both recite the identical Buchanan Automotive recommissioning of October 2023 at 205,549 kilometres, itemised the same way down to the injector baskets and the washer valves, and both carry the same twenty-four-entry Autohaus Hamilton book running back to a July 1986 pre-delivery inspection. The first listing says three owners from new and twenty-one years in one family; the second says four owners including a current owner of one year - which is exactly what the January 2024 buyer became.
The odometer is broken and did not move, though the car did, from New South Wales to Western Australia. It is the third repeat sale in this library to come back up, after the WRX GC8 at plus 1.5 per cent and the AP2 S2000 at plus 13.1. On a car this old and this distance-blind, holding value flat across a year and a half is the finding.
A Turbo S Silver Rose showing 18,544 kilometres made $33,250 in July 2024 - the rarest variant here, 1,685 built, and the second-weakest result on the page - while a 254,351-kilometre car made $61,000. Across the nine counted results price correlates with distance at plus 0.043, which is to say the wrong way and not at all. The 0.3 per cent penalty this record already carries is right and is left alone.
Price against time correlates at minus 0.687 and implies about $5,500 a year; distance and date are near enough independent at minus 0.125, so the two separate cleanly and together explain 47 per cent of the variance. And the two dearest results in the record, $46,750 and $46,000, are both Pastel Beige cars that have been through a full rebuild and won or placed at concours - one of them first at the 2024 Porsche Club New South Wales Concours d'Elegance. The two cheapest, $25,250 and $28,250, are both Guards Red United Kingdom imports past 230,000 kilometres. Restoration and colour, not the odometer.
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