Porsche 911 GT3 (996)
Reference — shown, never scored
Why 7.4: Porsche never petitioned to federalize the original GT3 — the entire US population is a 25-year-import population, hydraulic steering and no ESC to hide behind. The 2021 speculative spike has already partly corrected; this was built as a Nordschleife tool, not a vault piece.
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · $84k (2000) → $110k (2026), trending up · illustrative data
The long version
This never had a US price sticker, so every example on American roads today arrived either through the 25-year import rule or a lengthy federalization fight, and that filter front-loads the ownership pool toward people who specifically wanted the least-assisted GT3 Porsche ever built. Values spiked hard in 2021 as import eligibility widened and the 'first GT3' story caught on, then started correcting back toward something closer to what the driving experience actually justifies rather than the scarcity premium. What's driving it tends to be exactly who you'd expect: owners who did the import paperwork on purpose, not by accident.