Budget Based Porsche Buyer’s Guide: $50k 

Doubling our previous budget opens as you might imagine a much wider selection of Porsche sports cars. What can the buyer with half the price of a base Carrera 992 (without any of Porsche’s expensive options) expect to find?

The Transaxle Models

Surprisingly perhaps for thirty and forty-year-old cars, plenty of Porsche’s front-engine sports cars still lurk in the sub $50k category. You are unlikely to find any 924s except the GT, the le Mans-based turbocharged 924 GT which presaged the 944.
A little over four hundred were built for homologation purposes and they have long been collectors’ Porsches. Their prices reflect this: a private listing is for a 924 GTS Clubsport, ‘POA,’ which as my dad once told me, means ‘if you have to ask, you can’t afford it.’