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Originally Posted by Mako
what is porsche thinking
added 34 horsepower to base model (only one offered) and $8,000 to price, now starts at over $84,000, basically starts at what a fully loaded X3M cost.
tough to see how that is justified
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Greed. Plain and simple. The German economy is reliant upon the car industry, how many people in the world do they think make over 6 figures a year to be able to afford these cars? Most German citizens can only dream of having a base BMW or Porsche and the funny thing is we get the cars cheaper than the German citizens do. The Mclaren F1 and Jaguar Xj220 changed the automotive landscape for the worse once they surpassed the 1 million dollar Msrp mark. When the Bugatti veyron came out it was 1 million euros, now everybody wants to sell cars in the multi-million dollar range. Instead of technology trickling down the range for auto manufacturers, the price increases are the only things that seem to have trickled down. Not everyone works in Silicon Valley or is sitting atop an oil well.