Porsche 718 Clubsport Trackday Fails To Sell

Good Morning! Well, I guess we knew the run would come to an end at some point. Yesterday’s sales failed to cross the million-dollar mark by one car, which also would have kept us up in the 70s with our sell-through rate.

Porsche sales are still outpacing the overall collector car market though which came in at a 65% sell-through rate for the month of March vs. Porsche’s March sell-through rate of 73%.

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THE MARKET

Sell-Through Rate: 64%
Market Volume ($): $947,500
Market Volume (Units): 14

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SPOTLIGHT

Ahead of the Roar Before the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway in 2019, Porsche launched the 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport Competition and Trackday. The Competition variant was equipped with 3-way adjustable shocks, brake balance adjustment, a lightweight battery, a fire safety system, and a three-piston air jack system. The Trackday variant was equipped with fixed shocks, and a handheld fire extinguisher, and was aimed more toward the HPDE enthusiast crowd.

Our Spotlight car, the 2020 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport Trackday pictured above, was used as intended, an HPDE car with time at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Sebring, and Daytona. It has also been upgraded with an integrated air jack system similar to the Competition, an integrated fire suppression system, Fabspeed competition exhaust, and most notably a 4.5-liter flat-six by DeMan Motorsports.

Unlike the European market, the US market has not been flush with GT4 Clubsports with the only comp being another 2020 Trackday car that sold for $265,000 in December of last year. If you look a generation back, to the 981 eras Cayman, we see that a 2016 GT4 Clubsport sold at Gooding & Company last month for $168,000.

Our 2020 Clubsport failed to sell at a high bid of $192,000. A bit more than a 981-generation Clubsport but far less than a 718-generation. My guess is it had to do with the engine. Yes, 4.5 liters sounds like a ton of fun, but it limits you to just running laps as the larger engine means you can’t race the car competitively in any class. And for a Trackday car, isn’t that the goal?

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