Market Radar August 2026: Two Sold, One Left – the Market Is Clearing Out

Six weeks ago, in the July Market Radar, we found exactly two 997.2 Turbo coupés with a manual gearbox – worldwide, on the open market. Today, on 21 August 2026, we checked what became of them. The result is even more striking than the July finding: both have sold. And so has a third car we hadn't spotted in July.

What has vanished from the market since July

1. The white 2013 (US) – sold. The car that carried "price on request" in July: Carrara White with Carrara red leather, 9,173 miles, 6-speed manual, model year 2013 – the last and rarest year. Offered by a dealer in Glen Cove, New York. Status today: sold.¹ A 2013 manual with under 10,000 miles and a special interior colour combination is about the rarest thing this series has to offer – of course it's gone.

2. The Swiss car with the factory aerokit – sold. We missed this one in July, and it's a gem: a 997.2 Turbo manual with the rare factory aerokit, 39,997 km, first delivered in Switzerland, only ever in private ownership, serviced without gaps at Porsche, offered by a dealer in Zug. Here too, only one word remains today: sold.²

Notably, the seller framed the rarity like this – "an estimated production of at most around 500 manuals worldwide and well under 100 examples in this specification". That lines up closely with our own reasoning in “How Many Are There Really?”.

What's left: exactly one car

Of the July pair, only the 2012 in Platinum Silver remains – 34,400 miles, three previous owners, Sport Chrono package, adaptive sport seats, offered by a dealer in Los Angeles for $245,000. That puts it on the market since late April – roughly four months.³

Is that a contradiction to the scarcity story? No – and it is emphatically not a sign that the car is overpriced. Two things come together here:

First, a US car effectively addresses mainly the US market. For a European collector, the purchase price is only the start: shipping, customs duty and import VAT, national type approval and paperwork all follow – an effort many would rather avoid while they still hope to find an EU car. The pool of buyers for this one car is therefore geographically much smaller than worldwide demand for the model.

Second, it is ambitiously but legitimately positioned – slightly above the documented comparable range (roughly $170,000–236,000). For a car with no replacement coming, that makes sense: the seller can afford to wait, and he will find his buyer – it's a question of time and the right person, not of price.

That's exactly what a market looks like when the substance runs out: cars disappear first where buyer and car sit in the same market.

Europe: still nothing

The German and European market remains as it was in June and July: not a single 997.2 Turbo coupé with a manual gearbox on open offer. What you do find when you search for "997 Turbo manual" is consistently the previous 997.1 generation with the 3.6-litre Mezger – currently around these levels:⁴

Car	Mileage	Price
997.1 Turbo coupé, manual (DE)	72,000 km	€132,900
997.1 Turbo coupé, manual (AT)	55,940 km	€119,000 (reduced from €129,000)
997 Turbo manual, 2006 (DE)	108,500 km	€123,900

That's an instructive contrast – and it says two things:

1. The Mezger manual is available and negotiable (note the €10,000 reduction). A different, good car – but a different car, with a different engine and far higher production numbers. Why that matters is covered in “Mezger Myth vs. DFI”.
2. The 997.2 manual is not available – at any price. And anyone who assumes €130,000 is the going rate for a "997 Turbo manual" is confusing the generations.

The numbers – and why you shouldn't misread the "average"

For all the movement in supply, values remain stable to firm. The relevant classic.com index for the manual coupé – the volatility-adjusted CMB – sits at around $162,000, with an upward arrow. The comparable range for good examples is roughly $170,000–236,000, and this year's actual achieved sales came in at $169,000, $235,000 and $238,000.³

A warning about the often-quoted "average": you'll sometimes see around $150,000 for this category. That figure is correctly categorised (coupé + manual + 997.2, so no cabriolet and no 997.1 Mezger – those have their own markets), but it is an arithmetic mean of every sale ever recorded – including the cheap years, right back to a low of $62,500 in 2022. As a gauge of today's level it is therefore systematically too low. If you want to know what a good manual costs today, look at the CMB, the comps range and recent sales – and all of them point firmly upward.

No pullback, no fire sale – just a shrinking supply.

And in Germany we saw in July what a good manual is independently worth: DEKRA assessed the meteor-grey 41,000 km car at a €190,000 replacement value with grade 2+ – see the valuation article.

Our take for August

Anyone who wanted a good 997.2 Turbo manual in the past few weeks had exactly two chances – and both are taken. For buyers that means:

• Be prepared, don't search. If you start researching once the car appears, you're too slow. Criteria, budget and inspector should be lined up in advance.
• Network beats portal. The beautiful cars (aerokit, special colours, first deliveries) often go to people already on a dealer's list.
• Price isn't the problem – availability is. Having €190,000 ready today still doesn't automatically find you a car.

Next Market Radar: end of September. We're curious whether anything will be left standing.

Read on: Market Radar July 2026 · DEKRA valuation: €190,000, grade 2+ · Value Trajectory 2015–2026 · How Many Are There Really?

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Sources

Snapshot of the open market on 21 August 2026; listings and prices change daily. Asking prices are not achieved sale prices; dealer and platform claims (e.g. production figures) are not independently verified. This is a fan site with personal, enthusiast opinion – not investment advice.

Footnotes

1. Elferspot – listing "Porsche 997.2 Turbo 2013" (Carrara White / Carrara red leather, 9,173 mi, 6-speed, dealer in Glen Cove, NY); status on 21 Aug 2026: sold. [C] – https://www.elferspot.com/en/car/porsche-997-2-turbo-2013-6105904/ ↩

2. Elferspot – listing "Porsche 997.2 Turbo 2010" (manual + factory aerokit, 39,997 km, first delivered in Switzerland, dealer in Zug); status on 21 Aug 2026: "Price: Sold". [C] – https://www.elferspot.com/de/fahrzeug/porsche-997-2-turbo-2010-5880748/ ↩

3. classic.com – market "997.2 Turbo Coupe – Manual" and the individual 2012 listing (asking $245,000, listed since 23 Apr 2026; CMB ~$162,167, comps range $170,356–235,942; documented 2026 sales: $169,000, $235,000, $238,000; the average of ~$150,600 also shown there is a mean across every sale recorded since 2022 and therefore not a gauge of the current level). [C] – https://www.classic.com/m/porsche/911/997/9972/turbo/coupe-manual/ ↩ ↩²

4. Own market observation DE/AT (mobile.de environment, as of August 2026): exclusively 997.1 manuals on offer; prices quoted are asking prices, not achieved sale prices. [C] ↩