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Originally Posted by z12358
Adam:
"Agree, but sometimes the factory purposely holds a car back. The boxster S could've had 280 hp from the get go instead of 250hp but Porsche wanted to bump up the power of the 996 first. The car got a 30 hp bump and they didn't even need to up the displacement. That tells me some of these engines have some untapped potential."
We will never know for sure what went into making those decisions. We can only guess, and that involves risk. Even if the untapped potential was really there, tapping it without the design process employed by the factory (design, test, re-design, test, on the car as a whole etc.) adds another layer of risk. My point was that these risks can be seen as costs and as such they are usually underestimated.
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It's all a marketing decision. The 2.7L went from 217hp in 2000 to 245hp today. Still a 2.7L. Point is, Porsche has to look at the lifecycle of the car, and make it loook like there are upgrades as the car goes from year to year so that buyers will think that they're getting a "newer, more updated version", and are inticed to continue buying the car. They planned incremental upgrades in power from the get go, and thus, it is a marketing issue, not a technological one. If they really wanted to offer 245hp on the 2.7 from the get go, they could've, but then as the years went by, they would have had to up the numbers incrementally as well, and if they did that, it would nip at the heels of the Box S or 911, which is not allowed at Porsche.
