What Australians Actually Paid for a Used Porsche in 2026

Almost every article you will read about what a used Porsche is worth runs on estimates. Someone looks at what cars are listed for, applies a bit of judgement, and publishes a number.

Asking prices are not sale prices. A car advertised at $180,000 that sits for eight months and eventually sells for $150,000 was never a $180,000 car, but the $180,000 is the figure that ends up quoted.

So we started recording the other number. What cars actually sold for, at Australian auctions, with the source and the date attached to every entry.

What we have so far

This is a small dataset and we are not going to pretend otherwise. These are the Porsche results we have recorded and verified, in full.

Every one of those is a sold price, publicly published by the auction house at the time, recorded by us with a link back to the original listing.

What four results can tell you

Less than you would like, and we would rather say that than dress it up.

Four results across three completely different models cannot tell you what the Porsche market is doing. What they can tell you is what these four specific cars fetched, on these four specific days, which is four more genuinely Australian data points than most sources will give you.

A couple of things are worth noticing even at this size.

The 1988 Carrera 3.2 Super Sport Cabriolet at $150,000 and the near new Macan Turbo Electric at $147,888 landed within a couple of thousand dollars of each other. A thirty eight year old air-cooled 911 and a current model electric SUV, at the same money, on the same weekend. That is the air-cooled 911 market in one line.

The 2015 Macan Turbo at $38,750 with 118,000 kilometres shows the other side of it. Modern Porsche SUVs are not investments, they are cars, and they depreciate like cars.

How we collect it

By hand, twice a week, from auction houses that publish their results publicly.

That sounds inefficient because it is. There is no shortcut available that we are willing to take. Collecting Cars publishes sold prices openly for a short window after each sale and then puts them behind a sign in, so a missed week is a permanently missed result. Donington Auctions publishes winning bids openly and leaves them up, which makes them the most useful source we have found in this country.

We record the facts only. Car, date, price, odometer, state, auction house, and a link. We do not copy photographs or listing descriptions, and we do not record results from any source that has asked us not to.

We also do not mix sold prices with asking prices. Ever, in the same number. If we ever start recording asking data it will be labelled as asking data and charted separately, because averaging the two produces a figure that describes nothing.

Why this is worth doing at all

Because the Australian number is the one nobody publishes.

There is plenty of data on what a 911 sells for in California or Surrey. None of it accounts for Luxury Car Tax, or the fact that a car sold new here often has a different specification, or that our market is small enough that one collection coming up for sale moves everything.

An Australian buyer trying to work out what to pay is currently guessing from overseas figures. That is the gap.

This list will be longer next month, and considerably longer next year. If you would rather see the numbers than the opinions, that is what we are building.

In the meantime, if you want the wider view on Porsche values, we have written about why 911 values hold up, and about what a 911 costs to run each year.