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Originally Posted by thstone
Porsche is now just another gigantic corporation and as such, I am not surprised at their actions. This fellow is just one of a planned 200,000 sales in 2014 and if Porsche loses him, it won't hurt at all.
More so, history has shown the Porsche brand/reputation to be invincible; nothing impugns their reputation or hurts future sales. Not water cooled engines, large SUV's, sedans, crossovers, etc. And certainly not poor customer service.
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Famous last words. Was that circa 1998?
When Porsche barely sold 1,200 of the 'legendary' Carreras in all of NA? During the greatest post-war bull market the U.S. had ever seen? When the top 1% were buying two of everything in each color and zee Porsche brand still manages to get itself on the brink of bankruptcy on account of no consumer interest in buying Porsches?
If that could happen in a rocket economy just imagine what could happen in a really lousy one.... because each new "financial collapse"
will be worse than the last. It's like Tommy Lee Jones said in that one movie "It's the tide, the dismal tide. It's not the one thing." Just wait for a perfect storm of nightmare financial collapse coupled with a generation of customers that don't know Steve McQueen from Steve Harvey. As it is now most Porsche owners had no intention of buying a Carrera or Boxster/Cayman when they stepped foot in the dealer! They came for the SUV that they cross shopped with the Range Rover. To you and I the brand has history. To the typical Porsche buyer
today, it's just another luxury badge. And a certain flavor of luxury can fall out of favor in a snap. Just put VW in charge for a while...