Porsche announced a stellar October, with sales up 24.1 percent to 11,688 units, and with a total of 116,050 units delivered for the year, an increase of 15.6 percent over last. Porsche even has a nice table, which we hope will set an example for all automakers. All this didn’t keep them from slamming the brakes. Porsche will cancel weekend shifts at its headquarter factory in Zuffenhausen from January, where it has been running eight extra shifts on Saturdays since September to clear orders for the revamped 911 model, Reuters says.
Reuters has more bad news for the spoiled luxury brats that thought they are above the hard working blue collar cars:
“Rival luxury-car makers are also taking steps to address weak demand. Daimler said last month it has cut production of its flagship S-Class sedan until the next version of the model is ready to debut in mid-2013.
VW’s Audi luxury division twice shuttered its plant in Neckarsulm for a week each time in early and late October, disrupting production of high-end models, including the flagship A8 sedan and the R8 sports car.”
The lack of overtime will be decried by Porsche workers. It helped them get their factory-subsidized Porsche lease much faster.
Porsche Sales October
| PORSCHE AG Deliveries | October | January – October | ||||
| 2012 | 2011 | Variance (%) | 2012 | 2011 | Variance (%) | |
| World | 11,688 | 9,419 | 24.1 | 116,050 | 100,391 | 15.6 |
| Europe | 3,707 | 3,881 | -4.5 | 41,222 | 36,093 | 14.2 |
| Germany | 1,251 | 1,250 | 0.1 | 14,905 | 12,761 | 16.8 |
| America | 3,764 | 2,640 | 42.6 | 33,134 | 29,634 | 11.8 |
| USA | 3,211 | 2,270 | 41.5 | 28,226 | 24,934 | 13.2 |
| Asia-Pacific | 4,217 | 2,898 | 45.5 | 41,694 | 34,664 | 20.3 |
| China | 2,439 | 1,546 | 57.8 | 26,349 | 20,687 | 27.4 |
I thought that godawful paint job found its demise on the Laguna Seca Mustang… I guess I was wrong.
Those are very expensive options you are talking about. Show a little more respect.
Ditto to you Presley, maybe try to respect other people’s opinions? But to your statement: I have huge respect for Porsche. But I don’t respect the Hey-look-at-me paint, expensive option or not. It’s a Porsche. That should be enough to get people looking.
*Waves hand* This is not the sarcasm ott is looking for.
No one can take a joke, anymore, or see the humor in anything very much, these days. When I have to explain that I’m being facetious, and actually agreeing with you, Mr. ott, I guess it means that one of us is not very good at communicating the old “expensive Porsche option” joke very well. I’ll take the hit, and chalk it up to my inability to be clever. But, then again, from my experience, robots have never been very keen to irony, since they are often literal-minded, program-wise.
Ford ripped Porsche with scheme. Its fitting Porsche reclaimed it.
I think it’s a great color scheme.
Who cares about the paint. That little smile make this look like one of those goofy super-cute cars in the Chevron commercials. Can a full-on Mazda Pokemon Grin be far away?
Umm… BASF?