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For starters, it does NOT have the same IMS issues as the M96 cars. It's a different design on all but the earliest ones and a different far more "intrusive" repair. Beware the narrative those selling a fix have put out there, it's not really true and more intended to make money from fear.
I own a 987.1 S with 175k mi that just had the engine rebuilt. It broke a valve spring and dropped a valve. The bottom end looked like new. Put in a new factory IMS bearing and did NOT do the fix. I consider it a non-issue.
To the rest of your question, are you comparing apples to apples? I tend to see 987.2 Non-S cars around the same price as 987.1 S cars. I would be interested in some links of what you consider comps at similar prices because I just haven't seen equal condition S models across the generation that tightly priced to each other.
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2009 Outback XT
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