Florida Man Sues Porsche Claiming His 'new' $281,940 911 Gt3 Was Previously Used As A Technician Trainer

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When you bargain a caller car, you typically expect it to be, well, new. It whitethorn person been delivered to nan trader pinch a fistful of miles connected it and picked up a fewer much from a trial thrust aliases two, but you'd beryllium beautiful upset if a trader sold you a caller car that turned retired to beryllium used. You'd astir apt beryllium moreover angrier if nan car successful mobility was a Porsche 911 GT3 that costs you $281,940. And yet, Automotive News reports that 1 Florida man is suing Porsche Cars North America, claiming his 911 GT3 had been antecedently utilized to train technicians. 

According to nan suit revenge in Florida's Seminole County Circuit Court, Abdul Azizi purchased a 2022 Porsche 911 GT3 that showed 34 miles connected nan odometer from Porsche Warrington successful Warrington, Pennsylvania. Allegedly, Porsche Warrington told Azizi nan car had been utilized for "display and trading purposes" and that it "had only ever been utilized to beforehand nan marque and familiarize Porsche dealership unit pinch nan features of nan caller model."

But while immoderate "personnel" decidedly did usage nan car to familiarize themselves pinch nan caller model, nan phrasing wildly undersells what really happened. Azizi claims his car was primitively sold to the Porsche Technology Apprenticeship Program and utilized to train early technicians. How galore times it was torn down and put backmost together, nary 1 tin really say, but "a lot" sounds for illustration a beautiful bully guess. 

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At slightest nan trainees put everything backmost together perfectly, though, right? Wrong. If they had, Azizi whitethorn ne'er person learned nan existent communicative down his GT3. Instead, "the car developed superior electrical strategy problems," and erstwhile he took it to a Porsche-certified technician was reportedly told him it "looked for illustration anterior activity had successful truth been performed accordant pinch its anterior usage arsenic a training vehicle." Azizi appears to person past taken his car to a different Porsche work halfway for a 2nd opinion, wherever nan technician "noted that a information of nan undercarriage had been removed and replaced incorrectly, further indicating anterior activity connected nan conveyance earlier it was sold."

Attempts to repair nan car's issues reportedly failed, pinch nan suit claiming it was "out of work for nan amended portion of a twelvemonth — and Azizi has not driven it, fto unsocial had afloat usage and enjoyment of it, since early 2025." He was besides capable to Lemon Law nan car, but is presently appealing the the arbitrator's grant because it didn't include finance charges aliases income tax. In a statement, Azizi's lawyer Jacob Abrams told Automotive News:

As alleged successful nan complaint, Porsche improperly allocated a conveyance that it utilized to train work technicians astatine nan Porsche Technology Apprenticeship Program for waste to consumers and conspired pinch its co-defendant dealership to conceal nan vehicle's anterior use.

We look guardant to exposing this unfair believe and proving that defendants are liable for important damages to our client.

How this lawsuit will spell for PCNA is anybody's guess, but based connected nan specifications we presently person available, astatine nan very least, it's not looking bully for nan dealer. After they allegedly told Azizi his car didn't travel pinch a model sticker, he recovered it successful nan glovebox erstwhile he sewage home, complete pinch "PCNA CAR NOT FOR SALE" stamped connected nan beforehand of it. Oops.