Just some interesting facts...

Quoting from Forbes.com
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What's so hot about Porsche? Expansion. The brand synonymous with sports cars will appear on a burly sport utility vehicle this fall. Called the Cayenne, the Porsche SUV will be priced between $45,000 and $65,000, will be about the size of a BMW X5 and is expected to boost annual unit sales by nearly 50%, to 80,000 worldwide.

 

yea, thats how Porsche maintain as biggest independent Sport car company (maybe not anymore).
by selling cars at a premium price.

 

Thats really interesting, $61,000 to make the 911 turbo, seems like their customers are getting robbed. How much does the 911 turbo cost brand new over here?
I guess its true that people do pay extra for a name.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by liquid215
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I recently read the Hardley Ableson has the richest margins of any vehicle manufacturer. At least you're getting a premium product w/ a Porsche. W/ Hardley's, you're paying through the nose for ancient technology, lackluster performance, and chrome!

 

More quotes..

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Wiedeking, 49, joined Porsche's management board in 1991 and was named chairman in 1993. He is no diplomat. He's the kind of man who gets indignant at the notion of filing quarterly financial reports. He pooh-poohs engineers who want to smell the gas and roasted tires of racing. Fielding a Formula 1 team, he says, would cost Porsche $350 million a year. "Do you know the balance sheet of Ferrari?" Wiedeking says smugly about the moneylosing company, owned by Fiat, which has a Formula 1 team.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Chris S
[B]I recently read the Hardley Ableson has the richest margins of any vehicle manufacturer.