"Speedmonkey" (Speedmonkey)
10/11/2013 at 10:00 • Filed to: Porsche
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"Speedmonkey" (Speedmonkey)
10/11/2013 at 10:00 • Filed to: Porsche | 2
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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! the Cayenne SUV outstripped all other models. More than 50% of Porsche sales continue to be Cayennes.
The company has revealed some more information about individual model sales for September from which we can work out how many of each were sold.
Porsche sold 12,970 cars in September, worldwide. 6,895 of these were Cayennes, which equates to 53% of all Porsches sold.
Around 2,000 911s were sold in September, 15.4% of all Porsches sold.
Around 2,300 Caymans and Boxsters were sold in September, 17.7% of all sales.
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Panamera figures weren't revealed but we can deduce that roughly 1,745 were sold, or 13.4% of all Porsche sales.
Elsewhere Porsche revealed that 119,747 cars were sold in the year from January to September, a 14.7% rise on the same period in 2012.
Sales have increased in all markets. The smallest recorded increase has been in Europe, at 1.8%.
Arguably Porsche's largest growth in the coming years will come from the
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, an SUV that's slightly smaller than the Cayenne which will cost circa £40,000. It will compete in an established, and growing, market.
You can deduce from Porsche's sales figures why every car company is jumping on the SUV bandwagon. The Cayenne supports the Porsche and enables it to bring us the sports cars we all love so much.
Party-vi
> Speedmonkey
10/11/2013 at 10:11 |
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Yeah don't care WHERE IS THE 435i M REVIEW!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
:3
Grindintosecond
> Speedmonkey
10/11/2013 at 10:15 |
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Time to revive a 928 shooting brake....Oh wait they have a Panamera 4 door.....Cars from the 80's 90's are now fat bloated cars so i guess that is a 928 of today.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Speedmonkey
10/11/2013 at 10:36 |
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The math on it is simple: intersection of the sets
Less-Pricey-Than-The-Ultimate Porsche Buyers,
People Who Normally Buy Their Trophy Wives Range Rovers But Like Porsches,
People With Money Who Just Like To Buy The New Hotness
People Who Like Tight-Handling Minivan Substitutes, and
People Who Will Buy VWs With "Porsche" On Them For The Name
= the set "Gigabux".
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Speedmonkey
> Party-vi
10/11/2013 at 10:42 |
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Haha. Next Friday
Volvosaurus-Rex
> Speedmonkey
10/11/2013 at 10:45 |
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I hope they can sell a billion Cayennes. As long as they use the money for further 911 and Cayman/Boxster development, I wish them the best!
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Party-vi
> Speedmonkey
10/11/2013 at 11:02 |
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:(
Captain_Overboost
> Speedmonkey
10/11/2013 at 11:58 |
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Here's my " take " on the subject. Which means it's just an opinion, all of us have one. Mine's no more or no less important than anyone else's so, if you're about to rage, don't . Everyone who's constantly bitching about the Cayenne should just man up, pick your panties out of your crack and get the fuck over it. It's built by Porsche, ergo it IS a " real Porsche ". Whatever the hell that's supposed to mean? I mean, if you're so stuck on a " real Porsche " being only a rear engined, air cooled, boxer configured engine with a manual transmission contained within some evolution of the 911 chassis, guess what?
That car is dead .
Therefore, Porsche should no longer exist to you, so move along. Show's over. Sorry. Now for the people that are unhappy with Porsche but are still with us, I hate to be the one who had to give you the bad news. But, buck up skippy, time heals all wounds.
For Porsche, and everyone else with their sanity, the numbers don't lie. The Cayenne is accounting for over half of Porsche's sales. Half! In case you're not real strong on math, or business economics, that means everything else being equal if they weren't selling the Cayenne, they probably wouldn't be selling much of anything else. They'd be broke or sold off to some Chinese auto manufacturer and Lord knows what would be coming off the assembly line in that case.
Seriously, it's just one car. If you love Porsches and hate the Cayenne, ignore it. Don't buy it. Purchase the Porsche the appeals to you and everyone is happy. There's a reason car companies don't generally build a single model after they've matured past the "upstart" stage. It has something to do with chickens, eggs and one basket or something like that. I dunno, it's reaaaaaally complicated. ;-)
I do know that someone once said you can't please all of the people, all of the time. But in this case, Porsche is pleasing over half it's buyers with the Cayenne. Yeah, half their sales are accomplished with a single platform. Take that revenue away and they might end up pleasing no one.
It's a lucrative market, why NOT cash in on it? Hell, I don't care if they put the Porsche crest on a bus, if it means the profit from those platforms can keep financing the sales and production of things like the Carrera 4 Turbo or the GT3 RS, the Cayman S, ad infinitum and turning a profit for their shareholders I'm all for it. That's what a good business *should* do.
Well, there's my thoughts on the subject. Feel free to disagree, agree or simply ignore me because there's a real possibility I'm clinically insane.
Till next time...
BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> Speedmonkey
10/11/2013 at 12:00 |
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As much as I LUST after a Carrera 4S, or a 981 Cayman S as an ideal performance car, (4-season, or warm-weather, respectively)
To be honest... If I could afford, and find a base VR6 Cayenne 6-speed with AWD, in the new body style, I would drive the wheels off of it in a more practical manner.
And as long as Cayenne keeps paying for Carrera and Boxster/Cayman to be so damn good... I have become fine with that, especially now that Cayenne actually looks a bit better, sleeker and more aggressive than the first generation did.
The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
> Speedmonkey
10/11/2013 at 12:51 |
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That's an odd looking body kit for the Tuareg.