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The GT4 cup is for real. Some of the first cars, 8 exactly will come to Seattle in hopes of starting a gentlemen's racing series. This is all I know for now until the presentation by the Heart of Seattle racing.
Too late for that. Porsche sells more badge-engineered SUVs than sports cars.
This is nothing new. Porsche have been selling badged cars for decades. Pre-war 356s before the 1600s came out. All the way to 914s to the 924/944/928 and your most recent Panamera/Cayenne/Macan. They need this kind of business to stay alive. As long as they make the good cars (911, CGT, 918 etc), they can make what ever they want. Just sayin
This is nothing new. Porsche have been selling badged cars for decades. Pre-war 356s before the 1600s came out.
All the way to 914s to the 924/944/928 and your most recent Panamera/Cayenne/Macan. They need this kind of business
to stay alive. As long as they make the good cars (911, CGT, 918 etc), they can make what ever they want. Just sayin
Zulu: You reached the right conclusion but some of your 'facts' are suspect. Ferdinand Porsche designed cars for others 'pre-war' (WII),
but not any of the 356s. The latter (including Gmunds & Pre-A 1100, 1300, 1300S, 1500 & 1500S) were all 'post-war' as part of their
own auto manufacturing company rather than Ferdinand's earlier design business!
But you are right in this sense, Porsche from its early days always had ample engineering talent that was applied to other pursuits,
rather than just concentrate entirely on their limited sport car offerings. And from day one, the Porsche family often took advantage
of that surplus engineering skill to make a profit on the side as the case of these (spun-off as a separate tractor company):
and in all other types of assorted projects such as this airplane engine (and another for a helicopter) using their versatile 'industrial' 356 engines!:
But true enough to your general point, if it wasn't for the profits generated by their SUV business and Weissach-based design/engineering
'for hire', PAG might not have been able to weathered the economic vagaries that befell many other small auto companies in history.
This is nothing new. Porsche have been selling badged cars for decades. Pre-war 356s before the 1600s came out. All the way to 914s to the 924/944/928 and your most recent Panamera/Cayenne/Macan. They need this kind of business to stay alive. As long as they make the good cars (911, CGT, 918 etc), they can make what ever they want. Just sayin
Please, do not confound the 928 and the 968, please.
The 928 is a pure Porsche.
I'm not saying the 968 is a bad car (it's indeed a very nice car to drive), but it's a derivative of the 924 line.
Zulu: You reached the right conclusion but some of your 'facts' are suspect. Ferdinand Porsche designed cars for others 'pre-war' (WII),
but not any of the 356s. The latter (including Gmunds & Pre-A 1100, 1300, 1300S, 1500 & 1500S) were all 'post-war' as part of their
own auto manufacturing company rather than Ferdinand's earlier design business!
But you are right in this sense, Porsche from its early days always had ample engineering talent that was applied to other pursuits,
rather than just concentrate entirely on their limited sport car offerings. And from day one, the Porsche family often took advantage
of that surplus engineering skill to make a profit on the side as the case of these (spun-off as a separate tractor company):
and in all other types of assorted projects such as this airplane engine (and another for a helicopter) using their versatile 'industrial' 356 engines!:
But true enough to your general point, if it wasn't for the profits generated by their SUV business and Weissach-based design/engineering
'for hire', PAG might not have been able to weathered the economic vagaries that befell many other small auto companies in history.
Saludos,
Eduardo
Carmel
Sorry yes Eduardo, 1948 is no pre war. Wanted to correct that but got occupied with something else. Good catch
08-31-2015, 08:35 PM
