New Sports Cars Release and Revision Dates

 Model Year 2004 (MY04) Cars

Aston Martin DB9

Spring 2004

Aston Martin's awesome new DB9 is expected to be making an appearance at shows before the end of 2003, and is due for release in early 2004.  The aluminium bodied beauty is one of the best looking Astons yet, but is expected to sell for a similar price to the outgoing DB7.

Aston Martin DB9

Porsche Boxster 550

Spring 2004

Porsche are believed to have a Special Edition 550 Boxster on the way.  The new model will have only 6bhp more than the current S, but will be loaded with about £15K worth of extras on top of the Air Conditioning and other goodies already found on the S.  These are to include PSM (Porsche Stability Management) and Bose sound, and lots of Aluminium and Chrome.  The car celebrates the model's links back to the 550 Spyder, a classic Porsche on which the Boxster lines were based.  Porsche fans are queuing up to get their hands on this special which will probably be priced at just over £40K, making it a motoring bargain if the options included are to your taste.  But we're not convinced that all that Aluminium and Chrome is going to be to everyone's taste.  There will be just 1953 cars produced, and an estimated 160 are coming to the UK; but that's a lot of similar looking cars for a marque where it's rare for two cars to ever be made the same.

Porsche GT2 TT

October/November 2003

Porsche 911 Special Edition

Also new from Stuttgart are a pair of new 911s, including a limited edition special to celebrate the car's 40th anniversary, and a twin turbo version of the GT2 which produces a staggering 483bhp!  The former is going to cost around £68,000 making it quite a good buy in 911 terms, and the latter's going to be a whopping £127K putting it right at the top of the 911 range.  Porsche seem to have gone special edition mad at the moment, and there's got to be a fear that the public will tire of it.  Is there going to be demand for the ordinary cars with this sort of thing happening? 

Audi S3

2004

Meanwhile, the guys at Audi are working on a new S3 based on the new Golf/A3 platform.  We're expecting the car to be something special as they have to make sure they take a firm grasp on the luxury hot hatch market.  In the past VAG have occasionally allowed the top end Golf GTI to outperfrom the Audi equivalent, and that's surely not good for business - not from the company that is the master of making different brands for different market sectors.  Also due in 2004 are new versions of the Skoda Octavia, Seat Leon and a number of variants of the VW Golf.

BMW X3

2004

Word on the streets is that BMW's new 3 series based soft roader, the X3 will be on the streets before the end of 2004.  This is going to be a massive seller and waiting lists are going to be huge, so if you want one get your name down now!  Demand for the X5 was awesome, and we're pretty confident that BMW are on target again with this one.  There's plenty of drivers of smaller cars who want to get in on the high end SUV market without going for the bulky X5, or rivals like the Mercedes M Class and Porsche Cayenne.  At launce the X3's going to be in a class of its own, and that always means big sales and big profits.  Waiting lists are already lengthy, with plenty of people figuring that this is one of those cars, like the BMW mini, where you can snap up an early one, drive it for six months, and virtually get your money back on a private sale.
 

MY 2003 Cars