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Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

That's what I don't get. Dealers will send a car to auction rather than selling it to a customer.

Speaking of Cayenne auctions, apparently the '15-'16 Cayenne diesels bottomed out in price back in March/April and have become "hot" cars as of late. As of the beginning of this month there were only18 CD's available nationwide at Manheim and other auctions. A couple interesting quotes from threads on the other Porsche forums:

"The diesels I had posted pics of were all diesels available from manheim, auction and OVE. There aren’t many out there. Most dealers keep them to sell because they are desirable, and typically when they are put through auction they are going through for a reason.
We have had a tough past few months with buying and sales. Cars are selling at auction, adesa and manheim for almost nada clean retail and they aren’t in good shape. Cars that are in good shape with low miles that are desirable are selling for over value. We have limited ability to get into some auction sites as well so we are buying almost blind based on a few pics, unable to see in person first like we used to be able to do.
We bought three cars last week, all looked okay in pics they had, got there to pick up and didn’t even take one out of the auction site, just going right back through this week because of how bad of shape it was in and not disclosed. "


"I talked to Porsche Dealership that I have a good relationship with.
I asked them about demand and availability of 2015-2016 diesels.
"They are gone before we put them on the floor,'' he said.
"Our sales people have a list of clients that want one. But current diesels owners are not
giving them up. They are holding onto them. Current owners really love them."