$72,500 GT3 RS Flip

In February of this year our Spotlight car sold on PCARMARKET for $208,000. Over the weekend, the same car sold at Barrett-Jackson for $280,000. In a market that has remained fairly flat over the past year, this 2011 911 GT3 RS sold for the highest price paid by far this year. What drove the sale? Let’s dive in.

Finished in Ultraviolet over Black leather and Alcantara, the car is tastefully optioned with yellow deviated stitching, yellow seatbelts, PCCB brakes, and CXX options. So it must have been the ‘Special Wishes’ options that drove the price? Well, the only Sonderwunsch on the car is yellow door pulls instead of the standard grey. Nope.

How about miles? While not the lowest mileage car sold this year at 5,000 miles, it’s not the highest either.

Maybe it’s the fact that this GT3 RS is one of the final cars to roll off the production line. If the difference between the 991 GT3 RS and the upcoming 992 GT3 RS were such a stark contrast as the difference between a 997 GT3 RS 4.0 and a 991 GT3 RS, than just maybe. But that isn’t the case.

So why on earth did this RS sell for almost $100k over the average price? The only sensible conclusion is it had to of been a booze-fueled dual between two bidders wrapped up in the limelight of the Barrett-Jackson circus. Well sold my friend. Well sold.

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