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Porsche to scale to 500,000 cars a year?

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  1. Westworld

    Westworld Three Time F1 World Champ Silver Subscribed

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    Westworld, Jul 7, 2012
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  2. SrfCity

    SrfCity F1 World Champ

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    Where's it state the 500K? With today's pricing their dreaming if true. They can't sell all they make currently.
     
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  3. Westworld

    Westworld Three Time F1 World Champ Silver Subscribed

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    "By 2020, he estimates, Porsche could quadruple its sales, to as many as 500,000 cars a year, leveraging Volkswagen-driven plans to launch a small sport utility vehicle and other models. Last year, Porsche sold nearly 119,000 cars, more than half of which were Cayenne SUVs and Porsche’s Panamera sedans."
     
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    They obviously see the world economy improving...

    A lot of population estimates show a growth of around 500m between now and 2020 and China's upper middle class is growing very fast.

    So its not completely unreasonable that Porsche could pull that off
     
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  5. judge4re

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    Are there really that many dentists in the world?
     
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  6. PFSEX

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    Cayannes are tremendously popular in China...maybe because so many of the roads are in poor condition.

    Still though, 500K is a huge number to sell at current Porsche prices.

    WE sahll see.
     
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  7. Simon^2

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    By my rough calculation,... they'll need to release a 911 special edition every day.
     
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    Just curious why this is in the "Ferrari Discussion" section :confused:

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  9. Simon^2

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    Because it hasn't been moved.
     
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    Because we will have to compete against this jaugernaught.
     
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    I don't get your statement/question???
     
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    LOL
     
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    Nice one!

    -F
     
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    Im jewish but not a dentist.
     
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  15. Jedi

    Jedi Moderator Moderator Lifetime Rossa Owner

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    Well, then we should DEFINITELY have the Corvette discussions in this section too...

    ;)

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  16. sanchezdds

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    I'm a dentist but not Jewish.
    I think the guy is a anti-dentite, lol
     
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  18. SrfCity

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    The only way to pull that off is make a cheapy version for volume, which would cannibalize the brand. VW has a stigma as a kinda blah volume brand as it is. They can dream though :)
     
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  19. Westworld

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    Don't they already share a lot of parts and platforms? Porsche really shot itself in the foot when they tried to takeover VW, but then got a successful reverse takeover attempt on them.
     
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    I could see Cayenne sales getting them somewhere near that high given China, although probably the hybrid version given their air quality crisis there.

    Still... kind of a reach unless they ramp up production capacity in Asia.
     
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  21. luvair

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    No one can predict sales in 2020.

    Do recall reading China is the #1 market for Cayennes. I suspect Russia is not too far behind either. Clearly, VW wants to be the #1 WW car marker, which seems very possible well before 2020.
     
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    when I was in Ukraine (Kiev & Lviv/Bukovel) I saw several Cayenne's. More than I've seen in CO by far. It was winter so maybe that helps.
     
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    he probably thinks dentists should even have their own schools!!!
     
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    Haha! Someone got the joke:)
     
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