I have noticed that 1999ish 996s are selling for less than 993s (at
least locally). Makes me think these are sleepers.

Any reason to avoid a 1999 996 as a weekend driver? I know there were
some issues, but I imagine by now everything has been sorted out.

I see people claiming about $2500/yr in maintenance costs - Does that
sound about right? (couldn't be worse than my 83 928S )


Interestingly, consumer reports has some reliability data on 97-06
911s. The 97 993 had a near perfect reliability score. The 99 wasn't
as good, but still doesn't look too bad. No link - you need a
subscription. Sadly, 993s are creeping out of my price range.


TIA.

As always it depends on the milage. And with Porsches, it depends on how
much time it's spent over 100mph.

On 4 Feb, 18:37, "Noobs are people too" <greedw... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
Makes me think that 993s are all round better cars.

On 8 Feb, 01:50, The Dead Senator <deadsena... (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:
Isn't 993/996 the break point where they moved from building cars to a
standard then working out how much it costs, to building cars to a
price and seeing what kind of standard they could manage?


Complete agreement.