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THE ECONOMIST’S CASE FOR BUYING A USED 911

Buying a used 911: the economist’s case

When readers contact Total 911 with requests, we always try hard to comply. So when issue 242’s letters page received a suggestion from Andrew Hobin that we should repeat and update a piece I wrote in the magazine’s distant past, it was passed on to me to respond.

The original article was published back in 2012 and attempted to give the economist’s verdict on whether buying a used 911 could make more financial sense than purchasing a brand-new Ford Mondeo. Could the same be said over a decade later? Because Mondeos no longer feature on Ford’s model list we’ve taken class-leading driver’s car,

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