March 2007 Panorama – Sales Figures

[NickCats]

I know some of you fellow Boxster owners are not PCA members but there is some interesting info in this month’s Panorama :

Porsche Sales for January

Cayenne and 911 sales increase but Boxster and Cayman sales fall substantially

Jan 2007 – 2984 units
Jan 2006 – 3232 units

Cayenne sales up 37%

911 sales up 13.8%

Boxster / Cayman – down 52% ( 1383 in 2006 vs 658 in 2007 )

Day’s supply ( number on hand at dealers ) :

Industry ideal – 60 days

Boxster – 64 days
Cayman – 84 days
911 – 53 days
Cayenne – 53 days

Nick

[Perfectlap]

Those Cayenne numbers are astounding...high gas prices, SUV sales diving and Porsche is sitting purty.
did they break down the Cayman and Boxster sales individually?
I never understand why they clump the two together, makes it hard to see how the Caymans are doing as everyone knows Boxsters sales are always sinking..

sounds like another good year is in the works for Porsha...

p.s.
Cauyenne acounts for nearly 90% of Porsche sales in Russia.

[MNBoxster]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

Those Cayenne numbers are astounding...high gas prices, SUV sales diving and Porsche is sitting purty.
did they break down the Cayman and Boxster sales individually?
I never understand why they clump the two together, makes it hard to see how the Caymans are doing as everyone knows Boxsters sales are always sinking..

sounds like another good year is in the works for Porsha...

p.s.
Cauyenne acounts for nearly 90% of Porsche sales in Russia.

Hi,

The Cayman is a Boxster (type 987.120) variant, so Porsche does not break out their Sales figures separately - even in their own Annual Reoport...

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99

[speedyellow]

Christophorus "The Porsche Magazine" issue for Feb/Mar 2007 news on page 16 reads:

Sales leader: Ten years after it's launch, demand for the Boxster remains high,
200,000th Boxster was delivered to a customer in the US.

[MNBoxster]

Originally Posted by speedyellow

Christophorus "The Porsche Magazine" issue for Feb/Mar 2007 news on page 16 reads:

Sales leader: Ten years after it's launch, demand for the Boxster remains high,
200,000th Boxster was delivered to a customer in the US.

Hi,

That's interesting since Porsche Annual Report shows only 4 years where sales exceeded 20,000 units (either produced or Sold). Don't know where the magazine is getting their figures, but they're either wrong, or Porsche is lying to their shareholders.

According to Porsche Annual Reports, Boxster Sales peaked in the 2000/01 year with worldwide sales of 27,865 - Source: Porsche Annual Report...

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99

[gregwils]

"That's interesting since Porsche Annual Report shows only 4 years where sales exceeded 20,000 units (either produced or Sold). Don't know where the magazine is getting their figures, but they're either wrong, or Porsche is lying to their shareholders."

I'm fairly certain that the 200,000th included ROW cars. It just happened that the 200,000 unit was a US car.

[Perfectlap]

so if the CaymanS is a 987 variant, then is a 3.4 Boxster the same price as CaymanS?
And similarly, is the 3.6 996 Cab and 3.6 996 Coupe priced equally?

[Ronzi]

It's a good thing Cayenne and 911 sales are up, because Porsche has just taken out a $46.7 billion loan to take over VW, the action triggered by upping their VW stake to 30.9% in Feb.
They are also reportedly working on a smaller SUV to compete with the BMW X3.

I wouldn't count on Porsche price reductions anytime soon.

[MNBoxster]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

so if the CaymanS is a 987 variant, then is a 3.4 Boxster the same price as CaymanS?
And similarly, is the 3.6 996 Cab and 3.6 996 Coupe priced equally?

Hi,

Ha Ha... I doubt it, but Porsche never assigned another Project Number to the Caymen - it truly is a Boxster Coupe (probably to the chagrin of Cayman Owners who were the first in History to pay more for a Hardtop than a Cab)- right down to it's Project #...

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99