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Originally Posted by wbradley
I'm not sure about the 914, but the 924 and 944 were still up there price wise when new. WAYYY more than the twins.
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914 started super cheap at $3,500 it competed with Mustangs in 1970, but it underperformed so hard they beefed it up and by 1974 it was $5k (also due to economic factors), at the time ('74) a base 911 was ~$10k. ($24k & $48k in modern money respectively).
http://www.caranddriver.com/comparis...omparison-test
http://classicmotorsports.com/articles/porsche-914/
And yeah, I thought the 924 and 944 undercut the 911 more significantly, I guess they learned their lesson as the 914 didn't do too great, charge the premium, make the performance solid.
I did however find this very entertaining review of sports cars from 1979, looks like the SA RX-7 nearly outperformed the 924 for about half the money:
http://www.caranddriver.com/comparis...omparison-test
http://media.caranddriver.com/files/...un-vehicle.pdf
http://media.caranddriver.com/files/...erformance.pdf