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Originally Posted by z12358
Rome, whatever the case, you can't call it "profiteering" which refers to a situation when someone profits from charging exorbitant prices to buyers which -- due to sircumstances -- do NOT have the freedom to refuse the deal.
I prefer the transparency of the a la carte where all prices are there for you to see vs lumping things in as standard. It's a free market, and the buyer has the ultimate freedom to walk away from a deal that doesn't make sense to him. When I talked to dealers, I even told them what options are valuable to me and which ones aren't so most of them were ready to discount those options much more. Anything works in a free market.
My 06 S has the "prefered package" and I don't have the "auto" (I have the "max" button), so they must have included the auto-climate in the pref package for the 07. I agree, most cars I saw when I was looking came with the pref package, but I didn't mind it as it had features I'd have ordered anyway.
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I do understand free market economics...but there is no doubt Porsche is seizing upon impulse buyers who just buy what is in stock, which I suspect is a very high percentage of the market. This is nothing new in the car business. Personally I enjoy spec'ing the car and give a lot of thought to which options I want to order.
Interestingly, when I spec'd my Cayenne S (which is my daily driver), I ordered a lot of high end options (Full Leather, Nav, Bose, Xenons...and yes...auto climate), BUT I cut out 2 of the convenience package items which you see in almost every Cayenne-- one was the auto dim interior lights (which was something like $500) and the other was the seat memory (also like $500+). If you look at those "packages"-- and they change the names and groupings all the time based on their parts inventory-- it always seems like there are one or two things in there which are totally unnecessary and/or way overpriced (at least to me). Like you, I think it is far better, and more fun, to just order a la carte (and I actually like the anticipation of waiting to see my creation).
P.S. You might be right about '07...or it might be called the "convenience package" (there are a few different named packages) which includes the auto climate...not sure...which might explain why it wasn't in your car.