Porsche Has A Plan To Combat The Speculators
We’re used to the routine by now. Porsche’s GT division will create a car. It’ll get rave reviews from the motoring press. Demand will far outstrips supply. And then nearly new examples crop up in the classifieds with enormously inflated price tags.
It’s not a problem exclusive to Porsche, but GT boss Andreas Preuninger doesn’t seem too thrilled about the situation when it comes to Stuttgart’s finest sports cars. “I personally like to see my cars being used. That’s what we build them for. They are just too good to be left to stand and collect dust,” he told Car and Driver.
He went on to comment on 911 R buyers who were unhappy with the decision to fit the updated 911 GT3 with a manual gearbox, seemingly robbing the R of some of its exclusivity. “When I said we’re not a hedge fund, I’m talking to those people who are yelling at us for offering the manual transmission similar to the R…But if there are people wanting to buy cars like that, then as a company we should try to fulfill that, to meet that demand,” he explained.
In order to combat the situation, Preuninger assured that Porsche is “monitoring very closely who is flipping cars”. If you’re found to be ‘guilty’ of the practice, you’re unlikely to get your name on the next for the next car produced by Porsche GT.
“It’s not a punishment but a strategy: to supply the cars to the customers who will really use them,” Preuninger said.
Sounds fair to us.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
Maybe just make more special cars, Porsche? Maybe stop making so damn many limited editions and highly exclusive lightened track monsters? Hmm, Porsche? Maybe? No? Okay.
Nah, it’s cool, just means we’ll see the more or less same stuff on the next refreshed Porsche model
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What do you mean by more special?
Why am I not given the ones that are lying around doing nothing?
You have the money?
How about death instead?
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Someone has to
There are a few ways they can do it. For this to happen supply and demand is off, so they could build more cars.
Or, they could charge more for those cars because obviously people are willing to pay it.
Either way, it doesn’t seem very logical for Porsche to leave all that money on the table for unofficial middle men, then blame people for making that money themselves.
No slow clap for Porsche, back to Business 101 for Porsche.
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Black badge on a white car hardly hard to see
“we’re not a hedge fund”
Ferrari be like: wait, what?
What’s a hedge fund?
Porsche to car flippers: LOL you thought
when you said cracking down on ‘flipping’, at first I thought he was out to get revenge on Rag & Bone…
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