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Valuation · Porsche · n/a · 1992-95

Porsche 968

3.0L NA inline four · 177 kW / 305 Nm · 6sp manual · RWD
AVOIDRated within the $30k to $100k band · 78 of 94 at this money
Model value
$50,500
Must gain each year to break even
+12.1%
The projection does not clear it, and nor does most of the library.
CarQuant score
49/100
Scored against the $30k to $100k band, not the whole library
Evidence grade
Thin
One to three recorded Australian sales
$50,500
$36,592 lowhigh $55,671
Calibrated to a thin record
One dated Australian result: a 1993 manual coupe at $53,500 in Byron Bay on 29 September 2026. Two Shannons comparable-panel figures, $76,000 and $41,000, are real published money but carry no car identity and no date.
Measured across this library, a value resting on a single Australian result runs high about six times in ten, by a median of five per cent.

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Should make, typical example
$50,500
At about 130,000 km. Enter an asking price to compare.

Odometer only. Colour, options, history, condition and the photographs move it further, and that is what the report reads.

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Price history

Today $50,500 · modelled median at five years $46,561
Solid line: the value this library has carriedDashed from 2026: modelled · even money $41,317 to $51,353
The green band is the even-money range and the one to plan on: half of outcomes land inside it. The pale band behind it bounds eight in ten ($36,592 to $55,671). The path is this model's own: it starts along the momentum of its recorded history and bends toward its projected median as the horizon lengthens, so no two cars share a future curve.

The verdict

The numbers argue against it. Scores 49/100, ranking 78 of 94 in the $30k to $100k band. Scarcity is the strongest input, risk resilience the weakest.
Running it costs about $6,840 a year (13.5% of value), which is what the economics score measures. All in, including the projected value change, it is $8,332 a year.
The model's five year median is $46,561, a -7.8% move, with the tenth percentile at $36,592.
Value calibrated to a thin record. Treat the level as provisional.
Evidence
Thin1 recorded sale
Off its peak
-9%
Value band
moderate
At least one recorded transaction plus a source. Direction is sound, the exact level less so.
Scored against every recent Australian sale this library holds, half its values land within 11.2 per cent of the price paid and the rest miss by more, in either direction. Projections are therefore damped toward flat in proportion to how little is known, and the plausible band is never narrower than the error the model is known to make.
Short term (1-5 years)$8,332 a year all in, -7.8% median value move
Long term (10-15 years)Scarcity case already formed
Negotiate from$50,500

Recorded sales

Every recorded observation, and when
8 rows on record
$54k$52k$50k
2027
the value this record published, year by yearnow $51ksoldasking4 rows sit off this scale. Open the list below to see them.3 rows are undated and are not plotted
Every row, with its price and note (8) ↓
Sep 2026Collecting Cars$53,500Sold
SOLD. 29 Sep 2026, Byron Bay NSW, 156,088km which the seller believes genuine. 1993 968 coupe, SIX-SPEED MANUAL, an ORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN-MARKET car complied December 1993, VIN WP0ZZZ96ZRS800141, Iris Blue over Midnight Blue leather. 17-inch Cup 2 wheels, genuine Porsche Big Red brake upgrade, Koni coilovers, Clubsport steering wheel. Serviced November 2025 at about 150,000km and by Motor Renn Werks in May 2024 and March 2023; no timing-belt job stated. THE FIRST DATED AUSTRALIAN 968 RESULT THIS RECORD HOLDS, and it sat above every asking price the record carried. This desk called it $42,000
Sep 2026Collecting CarsNo saleNot a sale
NOT A SALE - LIVE LOT, AND THIS DESK REFUSED TO CALL IT. 1992 968 Cabriolet, Five Dock NSW, 87,407km which the seller believes genuine, Guards Red over black Porsche Script cloth and leatherette, FOUR-SPEED AUTOMATIC, 17-inch Cup wheels on mixed Michelin Pilot Sport tyres, trade seller, 137 photographs. AN ORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN-MARKET CAR, complied April 1993, VIN WP0ZZZ96ZPS830380, company registered. THE SERVICE FILE IS THE BEST THING IN IT: sixteen dated entries from 3,551km in August 1994 to 82,426km in June 2021 - Scuderia Veloce Motors four times to 1999, Unique Autos, C.A.R.S., Autowerks, Pacecars/Toorak Porsche twice, AJ Diesel twice, Long Point RV four times, then DHM Auto Solutions. THE BELT IS THE PROBLEM: the last documented service is June 2021, five years and about 5,000km ago, and no timing-belt job is recorded anywhere in the file. On this interference engine the interval is four years or 60,000km, the belt service is $3,500 and a snapped belt is a $24,000 rebuild on a car whose rough end is $24,000. One key only. PPSR clear, NEVDIS clear. Opened at A$0 with seven days nineteen hours to run, 376 views and 19 saves. Closes on or about 10 September 2026. IF IT SELLS IT BECOMES THE FIRST DATED AUSTRALIAN 968 RESULT THIS RECORD HAS EVER HELD, and the value stops being research.
Aug 2026my105$47,000Asking
ASKING. 1994 968 Club Sport, Australian classifieds listing, not a sale.
Aug 2026my105$45,000Asking
ASKING. 1993 968, Australian classifieds listing, not a sale.
Aug 2026my105$39,900Asking
ASKING. 1993 968 Club Sport, 96,000km, Australian delivery, NSW registered.
Aug 2026my105$25,000Asking
ASKING. 1993 968 Coupe, Australian classifieds listing, not a sale.
UndatedShannons$76,000Context, excluded
SOLD but CAR AND DATE UNKNOWN. 'Porsche 968 Club Sport Coupe - Sold: $76,000' from Shannons' Similar Vehicle Sales panel. Real published Shannons money, but the page gives no date, odometer or car identity, and it is not the result of the lot it appears on - a 1994 968 Club Sport that was itself passed in at the 2020 Winter Timed Online auction. No date is published against this figure and it is excluded from this record, which is a dated series; it is shown because it is real published money.
UndatedShannons$41,000Context, excluded
SOLD but CAR AND DATE UNKNOWN. 'Porsche 968 Club Sport Coupe - Sold: $41,000' from the same Shannons Similar Vehicle Sales panel; no date, odometer or car identity published, and not the result of the lot it appears on. No date is published against this figure and it is excluded from this record, which is a dated series; it is shown because it is real published money.
1 completed Australian sale of 8 rows. Rows marked asking, no sale, or context are shown for honesty but do not count toward the evidence grade: an ask is not a transaction, a pass-in is a refusal, and a provenance or overseas result does not price the ordinary local car. The badge on every row is computed by the same rule as the grade, so the two cannot drift apart.

Published calls on this car

1 prediction on this model is live and unresolved, published before the hammer and graded against it afterwards, alongside 1 that has already been settled.

Open2026-09-29
Awaiting the hammer.
Called
$41,000
Wrong2026-09-24
Sold $53,500 at Byron Bay, New South Wales, the first Australian 968 result this library holds. The call was 21.5 per cent low.
Called
$42,000
made $53,500 (+21.5%)

Score breakdown

Against the $30k to $100k band median
94 cars in band · ink tick marks the median
Ownership economics30% of total
51/100-4
Scarcity25% of total
57/100+4
Demand durability20% of total
54/100-12
Liquidity15% of total
46/100-6
Risk resilience10% of total
14/100-22
Sub-scores run 0-100 before weighting; the weighted total is 49/100. Medians are computed live from the 94 cars currently in the $30k to $100k band, so this picture moves when the library does.
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
Ownership economics30% weight
51/100
Baseline84 pts
− 13.5% of value a year to run-33 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)51 pts
Scarcity25% weight
57/100
Baseline20 pts
+ 185 survivors estimated in Australia+37 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)57 pts
Demand durability20% weight
54/100
Baseline46 pts
+ The last and best-developed of the front-engined four-cylinder cars+10 pts
+ 944 owners trading up are effectively the entire buyer base+8 pts
− A four-cylinder Porsche will always be a narrow taste-10 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)54 pts
Liquidity15% weight
46/100
Baseline12 pts
+ 90 days on market+22 pts
+ 18 sales a year+12 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)46 pts
Risk resilience10% weight
14/100
Baseline50 pts
− A snapped belt writes the engine off at $24,000-14 pts
− Both Shannons figures carry no car and no date-12 pts
− One dated Australian hammer, and the rest of the local record is asks-6 pts
− A single result is a marker, not a level-4 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)14 pts
Model output, not advice or a valuation. Verify independently before acting.

What it costs to own · about 4,000 km a year

Annual cost of access, excl. fuel
$6,840a year
Share of value per year
13.5%
Scheduled servicing$1,54023%
Tyres, annualised$1,05015%
Registration and CTP$82012%
Insurance$1,95029%
Sinking fund (failure table)$1,48022%
All-in annualised (a different number)
Purchase (model value plus duty)$52,520
Running costs × 5 years$34,200
Median exit, net of selling cost$45,061
All-in annualised over 5 years$8,332/yr
Share of value per year16.5%
Cost of access is what the car costs to run. All-in annualised adds depreciation, duty and selling costs across a five year hold. They answer different questions and are labelled separately for that reason.
Break-even appreciation, 5 year hold
12.1%a year, only to get the money back
This library projects
-1.6%a year
The projection falls 13.7 points a year short of the hurdle. On these assumptions this car is a cost, not an asset, which can be an entirely rational thing to buy but should be bought knowing it.
Purchase$50,500
Stamp duty$2,020
Running costs x 5 years$34,200
Selling cost at exit, 3.0% of the salescales with price
Sale price needed at +5 years$89,375
Storage
Bought at
No forecast is used to compute the hurdle. It is the purchase, the duty, any premium and 5 years of running cost, grossed up for the cost of selling and spread back over the hold. The projection it is measured against is the weakest number in this product and is drawn that way in the chart above. Transport, finance and any restoration spend sit outside it.

Specification

Engine3.0L NA inline four
Power / torque177 kW / 305 Nm
0-100 km/h6.5 s
Transmission6sp manual
DriveRWD
Kerb weight1,400 kg
Built worldwide12,776
Delivered to Australia130
Effective AU survivors185
Australian sales / year18
Typical days on market90 days
Launch priceNot established

What moves the price on this model

Colour hierarchy
Original paint in a factory colour+6%
One documented respray in the original colour+2%
Resprayed or colour-changed-8%
Options
Genuine VIN-verified Club Sport+60%
Six-speed manual rather than Tiptronic+25%
Belts, tensioner and water pump within two years or 60,000km+10%
Odometer sensitivity±1.6% per 10,000 km vs 130,000 km
Applied on top of these

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

Projected value at five years
$46,561
-7.8% on today
The model's figure. Today it is $50,500.
Even odds it lands between $41,317 and $51,353.
$36,592 lowhigh $55,671
The shaded range is even money and 24% wide; the outer figures bound eight outcomes in ten. Band width follows the evidence - a model with a tight measured record carries a tight band.
A weaker five year outlook than 80% of the library.
-26.6% weakest projected move in the librarystrongest +73.1%
Five-year cost of ownership
Value change alone: -$3,939 across five years.
Running costs over the same period: $34,200.
Duty and expected selling costs: $3,520.
Net cost of five years of ownership: $41,660, or $8,332 a year.
The projected value fall is added to the running cost. Depreciation is the larger number here.

The case for and against

The case for

The least cyclical car in this tranche: a slow steady climb since 2020 with no boom and no bust, funded by 944 owners trading up rather than by speculators. A genuine VIN-verified Club Sport is worth 50 to 70 per cent more, out of an estimated 90 to 170 Australian cars in total.

The case against

There is one dated Australian result, and one result is a marker rather than a level. The two Shannons figures of $76,000 and $41,000 carry no car, no date and no odometer, and they sit nearly two to one apart. A snapped timing belt writes off an interference engine at $24,000, which is more than the rough end of this market is worth.

Known faults and risks

Risk 1Timing belt due every four years or 60,000km on an interference engine
Risk 2Tiptronic cars are materially cheaper and the rebuild is $8,000
Risk 3Club Sport claims need verifying against the VIN
Engine rebuild after a snapped belt - interference engine, often more than the car is worth$24,000
Tiptronic rebuild, expensive relative to car value$8,000
Torque tube rebuild and transaxle rear main seal$6,250
Clutch, gearbox out on the transaxle layout$5,250
Timing belt, balance-shaft belts, tensioner and water pump every four years or 60,000km$3,500
VarioCam chain pad, usually done with the belts$2,750

Similar cars, and what they cost to run

Evidence behind this valueThin · 1 recorded sale
Carried value
$50,500
Historical price
2016 · $42,6002026 · $50,500
Thin
At least one recorded transaction plus a source. Direction is sound, the exact level less so.
The first dated Australian 968 result arrived on 29 September 2026, and it broke the premise the call on it was built on

A 1993 Australian-delivered six-speed manual coupe at 156,088 kilometres, on Cup 2 wheels with Big Reds and Konis and three years of dated servicing but no timing-belt job stated, made $53,500 at Byron Bay. This desk had called it $42,000, thirty-two per cent under its own model, on the argument that a hammer sits under an ask and the four local asks ran $25,000 to $47,000.

Read the rest of the evidence notes (6 more)
The hammer sat above every one of them

The asks were not a ceiling, the model at $61,970 would have been 15.8 per cent high, and the call was 21.5 per cent low: the departure was the wrong way and larger than the error it set out to correct.

The value moves $57,500 to $50,500 on the first transaction

Back-solved through the rows the call used - the odometer, the year, plus 25 for the manual, minus 4 for the Big Reds and Konis and minus 6 for belts not stated - the hammer says a standard car is $49,900. The research value, corrected by the ten per cent this library measured no-evidence values running high, says $51,800. Weighted by how wide each one is - a single result at the sixteen per cent residual this library measures on one sale, the research at the width of its own no-evidence interval - the answer is $50,500. The manual premium of 25 is still untested by any local result, and it is the row most able to move this.

The two undated numbers are real money attached to no car

Shannons' Similar Vehicle Sales panel published a 968 Club Sport Coupe sold at $76,000, and another at $41,000. Both are genuine published Shannons figures. Neither carries a date, an odometer or a car identity, and neither is the result of the lot the panel appeared on - that lot, a 1994 Club Sport, was itself passed in at the 2020 Winter timed online auction. Shannons left the auction business in November 2023 and the archive was stripped, so the cars behind those two figures can no longer be identified. Nearly two to one apart with nothing to explain the gap, they describe a range and not a value.

The rest of the local record is asks

Four my105 listings in August 2026: $47,000 and $39,900 for Club Sports, the second an Australian-delivered NSW-registered car at 96,000km, $45,000 for a standard 1993 car and $25,000 for a coupe. Asking prices, not hammers, and this page does not fit a line to them.

Ignore the depreciation guides

Published guides showing $14,190 to $28,160 for this model are an artefact of a used-car pricing curve and describe nothing in the collector market.

What actually moves the price, in order

Transmission, where manual over Tiptronic is decisive; then a VIN-verified Club Sport at 50 to 70 per cent; then belts. The engine is an interference design, the interval is four years or 60,000km, and a snapped belt is a $24,000 rebuild on a car whose rough end is $24,000.

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This model, today$50,500
Half of sales are further out than$5,645
The report$249
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