1985 Porsche 928 S2

The vendor, who is well known to us and has a high-quality collection that he has maintained and serviced by a mechanic who knows the cars inside out, has owned this splendid 928 S2 for around 2.5 years.

The vendor tells us that he has covered just a few hundred miles in the car since purchasing it and that, before then, it had spent quite some time laid-up and not being used.

So, while the car starts, runs and goes about its gloriously over-engineered business pretty much as the Meister Technikers of Zuffenhausen intended, it would no doubt benefit from being given a good, long run out to blow away any mechanical cobwebs.

One thing we should clear up is the question of the odometer.

Eagle-eyed sleuths among you will have noticed that some invoices from at least a decade or so ago are showing a mileage of 108,000, whereas the indicated mileage today is some 24,000 miles lower than that.

This is because the original odometer was replaced (because of a known fault suffered by 928 odometers) by a used one when the true mileage was 62,300 miles.

Some previous owners, for reasons best-known to themselves, chose to stick with the higher, inaccurate reading until some time around 2017, when the discrepancy was corrected and the true reading restored.

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Either way, the current shown mileage of 84,000 tallies with the HPI report, the online MoT trail and, consequently, we have no reason to doubt its veracity. 
 

The bodywork on this 928 is really very good and there are no dinks, dents or dimples of note anywhere that we can see.

Naturally, the shut-lines and panel gaps are precise and consistent in the best Teutonic tradition, and the doors close with the vault-like weight and certainty that has characterised Zuffenhausen’s output for as long as anyone can remember.

As for the Guards Red paintwork, which we understand was resprayed in 2014, well that’s as vibrant as you like and it fair pops and sings in the sunshine.

Faults really are few and far between on the car’s exterior, but it’s our job to be pernickety about these things, so here goes.

There’s a small patch of blistering adjacent to the rear, offside quarter-light; some of the rubber seals around the windows are a little ragged in places; and the black rubber front valance is split at the offside corner.

Aside from that, we’d say that even entirely standard scratches and stone chips are rather more notable for their absence than their presence.

The wheels are in very good order and seem largely unacquainted with kerbs or other roadside obstacles.

They are shod in Pirelli P6000 rubber at the front and Toyo Proxes at the rear – all of which have plenty of tread left but may be getting a little long in the tooth.

Thankfully, the black rubber rear spoiler has resisted the temptation to fade and is still resolutely black.

The pop-up headlights pop up. The sunroof lets in the sun, but not the rain.

The lights, lenses, badging and other exterior fixtures and fittings are all in very fine fettle, as far as we can see. 
 

The built-to-the-hilt quality of these cars is as evident inside as it is outside.

We understand from the documents provided that the car originally came with black upholstery and interior trim, which was replaced with cream Nappa leather trim in 2014.

The seats, front and back, are very good and have barely more than a few creases to show for their use.

The embroidered Porsche logos on the front seat headrests look particularly fine, in our opinion.

As ever, the back seats look as if they’ve rarely had to carry anything much heavier than a hat or coat.

There is a little staining and a touch of bagginess to the leather around the black plastic support on the outer bolster of the driver’s seat backrest. That aside, the seats look fine.

The door cards, headlining, carpets and mats are in decent nick, too, save for a rather ragged section of detached carpet inside the passenger footwell.

The carpet either side of the centre console and transmission tunnel is detaching slightly, and on the driver’s side, the vinyl trim adjacent to the gear selector is lifting away from the underlying structure.

An aftermarket Nardi steering wheel sits in front of the driver and is in good condition, as are the gear selector, handbrake and other controls.

The vendor has spent time and money ensuring that any electrical gremlins have been banished in relation to control switches for the windows, and he has replaced the column stalk for operating the main beam.

He hasn’t had time to sort out the somewhat unreliable button for the sun-roof or replace the missing parts of the buttons next to the handbrake.

The luggage bay is as good as the rest of it.
 

The very full engine bay is dry, orderly and everything appears to be in its right and proper place.

The undersides of the car look to have been afforded ample protection by its various protective cowls and covers, and we’ve seen nothing at all to make us question the car’s structural integrity or question its honesty.

The car comes with plenty of invoices, receipts and bills attesting to work carried out over the years.

The car was last serviced on 15th September 2025.

In February 2024, it was the recipient of a new timing belt roller and tensioner roller bearing, courtesy of marque specialists Design 911.

It comes with a V5C, a recent HPI report, and an MoT certificate, with no advisories whatsoever, that’s valid until 22nd July 2026.

Porsche were looking to make a point with the 928 and they knew that there was a great deal riding on its success.

It needed to be so technologically advanced, so brilliantly engineered, so fantastically well-built, and so supremely capable that it would leave its rivals from Munich, Sindelfingen, Browns Lane and Ingolstadt wondering what had just hit them.

Even a curmudgeonly critic would have to admit that they did a fantastic job and that, arguably, the car’s only failure was its inability to supplant the marque’s stubbornly pre-eminent 911.

Well, this 928 S2 is alive and well and ready to impress you with its class and competence, both of which are still abundant some 40 years after Klaus and Wolfgang waved it a tearful goodbye from the end of the production line.

What it needs, and most wants, is to be used properly and given some decent work-outs on long, fast drives.

That doesn’t sound too onerous to us.

We are happy to offer this car for auction with an estimate in the range of £15,000 - £18,000.

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