By Tim, Paul, and Dave · January 22, 2026

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This week’s Full Throttle Talk finally tied together three stories that, on the surface, look unrelated—but absolutely aren’t.

Ferraris shattering records.
Porsche fans arguing about soul vs. specs.
And Magnus Walker quietly sending 150 items—many of them Porsches—to an upcoming RM Sotheby's sale.

Individually, they’re headlines.
Together, they’re a warning.

Modern performance cars have officially crossed into absurd territory.

They’re faster than ever, more capable than ever—and increasingly forgettable.

This is the exact tension we’ve been hammering in recent Porsche articles: manufacturers are optimizing for numbers, not memories. When a car’s value is defined by its options list, allocation status, or resale curve, the driving experience becomes secondary.

That’s not progress.
That’s drift.

The Mecum hype machine went full throttle on “record-breaking” Ferrari sales—and yes, the numbers were big.

But let’s slow it down.

These weren’t random cars finding organic market price. They were Ferraris in a room designed to extract maximum emotion, maximum ego, and maximum headlines.

Ferrari has become the perfect auction accelerant. Mention the badge, cue the lights, and suddenly the hammer price becomes a press release.

That doesn’t make the cars illegitimate.
It makes the comps unreliable.

Smart enthusiasts don’t read auction results as truth.
They read them as temperature.

This was the debate that lit the fuse.

Nobody serious is arguing that Porsche forgot how to build great cars.

The concern is why they’re being built—and for whom.

Today’s Porsche ecosystem rewards:

When a GT car is discussed more like an NFT than a machine, something fundamental has shifted.

Porsche didn’t lose its soul.
It monetized it.

And once that happens, the audience changes.

This is where things get interesting.

Magnus Walker isn’t “dumping everything.”
He’s not quitting cars.
And he’s not walking away from the culture.

But sending 150 items—including multiple Porsches—to an RM Sotheby’s auction is not a nothing-burger.

Collectors don’t make moves like that accidentally.

The real question isn’t “Is Magnus done with Porsche?”
It’s:

What version of Porsche is he done with?

Because if your identity was built on raw, analog, slightly messy air-cooled cars—and the brand now revolves around allocations, influencers, and resale math—selling isn’t betrayal.

It’s alignment.

This may not be an exit.
It may be a pivot away from what Porsche has become, not what it was.

The inbox was brutally consistent.

That’s the through-line connecting Mecum Ferraris, Porsche debates, and Magnus’s auction.

This isn’t about one brand or one personality.

It’s about what happens when passion scales faster than purpose.

Car culture always tells the truth eventually—but rarely in words.

It shows up in behavior.

In what gets bought.
In what gets parked.
And in what quietly gets sold.

If people who helped define modern Porsche enthusiasm are thinning their collections, that’s not gossip.

That’s data.

And it might be the clearest signal yet that the pendulum is getting ready to swing back—toward cars that are driven, imperfect, and loved for reasons no spreadsheet can explain.

We’ll be watching.
And we’ll keep saying the quiet part out loud.

– Tim, Paul & Dave

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