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Old 08-15-2009, 07:09 PM
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This will be the new logo soon.
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Old 08-15-2009, 07:11 PM
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Oh Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Old 08-15-2009, 08:35 PM
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Doubt you'll see that ON a car.
A building, maybe. But, not a car.
Old 08-15-2009, 08:50 PM
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I was waiting for this to happen! At least I have a WOLFSBURG edition!
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Blatantly BS.

Sheesh. Don't be so gullible, people.

Management didn't get to where they are by acting "stupidly." Any marketing student can tell you that a lesser brand - even they though are the parent company - would damage the brand of a more highly regarded brand by affixing the name of the former on the latter. They are in the business of making more money, not less money by driving away loyal customers (brand loyalty is a powerful sales motivator) who perceive a watered down brand as a result. Case in point: When Toyota created Lexus, they went to great pains to hide the fact that Lexus had anything to do with Toyota.

Now, the converse generally makes good business sense: affixing the name of a better brand to a lesser brand to help boost the image of the latter. The risk here is that the better brand can be pulled down by the lesser, and thus potentially tarnish the image of the company, especially if the lesser brand has a poor reputation. Case in point: Daimler-Chrysler.

Besides, the Porsche logo is a well protected trademark. To bastardize it like this and try to pass it off to someone as legitimate; well, maybe a teenager might believe that, if he's gullible.
Old 08-15-2009, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by OCBen
Blatantly BS.

Sheesh. Don't be so gullible, people.

Management didn't get to where they are by acting "stupidly." Any marketing student can tell you that a lesser brand - even they though are the parent company - would damage the brand of a more highly regarded brand by affixing the name of the former on the latter. They are in the business of making more money, not less money by driving away loyal customers (brand loyalty is a powerful sales motivator) who perceive a watered down brand as a result. Case in point: When Toyota created Lexus, they went to great pains to hide the fact that Lexus had anything to do with Toyota.

Now, the converse generally makes good business sense: affixing the name of a better brand to a lesser brand to help boost the image of the latter. The risk here is that the better brand can be pulled down by the lesser, and thus potentially tarnish the image of the company, especially if the lesser brand has a poor reputation. Case in point: Daimler-Chrysler.

Besides, the Porsche logo is a well protected trademark. To bastardize it like this and try to pass it off to someone as legitimate; well, maybe a teenager might believe that, if he's gullible.
It's a joke rusty
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA....I got OCBen all ruffled up! Dude it's a freakin' joke...I found this sticker on eBay! LOL
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...it does look like a mix between a VW and Porsche.
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They're also scrapping the 911 model name; the replacement will be called the Karmann G86. To many bad family memories apparently.

As if.....
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It reminds me of the 914 which had a similar logo in Europe.

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Old 08-16-2009, 10:05 AM
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when will Bugatti, Lambo and Audi (all owned by VW) change their logos too
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Originally Posted by mdrums
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA....I got OCBen all ruffled up! Dude it's a freakin' joke...I found this sticker on eBay! LOL
It appears that there is only one gullible person on this thread for thinking that everyone else actually believed your post! Classic!!!!
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Originally Posted by mdrums
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA....I got OCBen all ruffled up! Dude it's a freakin' joke...I found this sticker on eBay! LOL
Yeah, it was obvious to me you were posting it as joke, otherwise you would have provided a link to the source.

The problem is that many posters here have gotten sloppy and have cut-&-pasted items of news without providing the requisite link, expecting others to believe wholesale what they've posted is bona fide truth, and many do without questioning the source of information. If no link is provided I ignore the post, and search for the news story online if it's newsworthy, on the premise that not everyone's cut-&-paste skills are flawless.

Yeah, it may have seemed silly for me to point out why that logo is blatantly false. But it was for the benefit of those who've come to trust members here who post items of news, especially with regard to this disconcerting subject, without a corroborating link. Hopefully people will demand a link from anyone who posts supposed items of news without a requisite link from now on. And if no link is provided, the assumption that it's a joke is a safe one.
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Ben, here is the link you are asking about...now please post pictures of your car when you install these.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/VW-PO...#ht_5951wt_941


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