Porsche GT Department
03-08-2016, 09:15 AM
#16
Can't a "purist" NA car be had for under $200K? More like a "privileged" car. Either this or turbo charged vacuum cleaners? The GT3 should stay and would be nice to have a $140Kish option. Anyone wants a few upgrades, move upstream. Porsche shouldn't price itself too high. Easy to do when times are good, but things aren't always "good".
The smart move is the one they are planning.
Keep MSRP about the same for gen2 gt3 and offer MT.
03-09-2016, 04:45 PM
#17
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but we knew it months ago on RL didnt we?
i hope you didn t sold for nuts your last 911 GT3
"The future may contain NO GT3"
"Andreas Preuninger sees two tribes of Porsche GT buyer: the purists, and the racers.
And while the cars that appeal to each use the same tech, they take it in different directions.
Fit a manual to the GT3 again - as he seemingly plans to - and a blurred line
between the 911 R and GT3 RS exists. “For the far future maybe
it would be worth thinking about an RS and an R,
but NO GT3, because there’d be overlapping,” he
(Andreas) says.
If you’ve just spat tea over your computer, grab
a cloth and then try to calm down. Nothing’s certain.(TopGear)"
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03-09-2016, 08:30 PM
#18
I just wonder what the tien around flip value is going to be on the R? More so than the RS?
03-10-2016, 04:07 AM
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03-10-2016, 09:47 AM
#21
I agree. But...
There's a part of me that looks at Porsche as a business as well. Porsche pretty much sells all of the GT3s and GT3 RS models they produce. Has anyone figured out the profit margins on the GT cars? I remember reading posts from members who believed that they believed the profit margins were lower on the GT cars. From a business standpoint would Porsche benefit from dropping the GT3 and keeping the RS while significantly increasing the power, price and production numbers of the GTS models?
Would most of the GT3 loyalists move up to the RS? Would RS numbers increase? Would a higher power GTS finally give the "if you have to ask you should buy the turbo" crowd a simpler answer to their question?
There's a part of me that looks at Porsche as a business as well. Porsche pretty much sells all of the GT3s and GT3 RS models they produce. Has anyone figured out the profit margins on the GT cars? I remember reading posts from members who believed that they believed the profit margins were lower on the GT cars. From a business standpoint would Porsche benefit from dropping the GT3 and keeping the RS while significantly increasing the power, price and production numbers of the GTS models?
Would most of the GT3 loyalists move up to the RS? Would RS numbers increase? Would a higher power GTS finally give the "if you have to ask you should buy the turbo" crowd a simpler answer to their question?
For some of us we can only hope there will, might(!), be a 991.2 GT3 Version with manual to satisify the masses. But as of now I can see that Porsche had decided instead to construct the R perhaps. And the planner's, Management Accountant's, came to the conclusion that Porsche can create a larger bottom line in their GT searies if the make the R instead, even though it doesn't say GT we all very well know it was developed and honed under the Guise of Mr A.P.!
I am grateful that Porsche decided to make the R and with Manual. However making a GT3, and with a Manual Transmission Six or even Seven please, will satisfy the rest of us who cannot at the moment justify trying to allocate anything above a Non S Twin Turbo.
Last edited by The New 911; 03-10-2016 at 10:34 AM.