winovin

Also, don't forget the non-deductibility of owner occupied mortgage loan interest in the UK!

ArthurK

Unlike the rest of the world the US has a warranty scheme that is dictated by the market. RoW warranty on a Porsche is 2 years and not a day more. In the US it is 4 years. Also your VIN will be evidence of this and therefore will not qualify for 4 year US warranty. Similarly with your example of the radio most companies will give a US warranty and a RoW ie Nikon has a worldwide minus US product and a US product. Try to take a US product to an Australian Nikon Centre for warranty repair and they tell you to shove it where the sun don't shine.

In Oz you can buy an extended warranty for the 911 for upto 9 years from its new date. This don't come cheap but for peace of mind US$6000 (for the 7 following years) isnt too bad. The warranty is offered by Porsche not a third party and covers everything a new car warranty covers. I have exteneded my current 996 already 1 year and about to extended for the following year.

harris

selling your new bought car before the expire date of warranty, and buying a Porsche certified car, is not the best way to have always warranty to ur car.
this way you loose the biggest possible money on trading car, because cars fall 50% on their brand new price the first 3 1/2 years, on average.
then on the other hand you will be buying from prosche...again the highest possible way to buy a car ( of course with warranty...)
do have in mind that this way the possibillities trading your car at porsche are even bigger.....you loose money in 3 ways:

selling at 3 1/2 years...
trading at Porsche...
buying form porsche


you have to take in account how much money you loose this way...which could end up being $$$....

i have a feeling that in that case warranty is not the biggest issue...since you would be loosing money anyway....and i doubt that a properrly maintained car by you from new would cause such an expensive problems....outcoming all these money lost in trading....

that's my opinion.

my 964 was bought privatelly in germany with no history at all and propably 100K kilometers.....at almost 50% less money asked for the same car in an OPC in Munich Germany....
car was inspected be4 bought by an independed specialist......and found ok..
car was sold with 438.000 klms after 3 1/2 years of ownership and almost travelled every possible country in europe...again with no warranty in my hands....and car never asked for more than the required service and ussual clutch, brake pads-discs maintainance.....

again that's my personal opinio of course and do not want to argue with anyone of you....cheers.....

harris

..... I would have to supply the same warranty worldwide no matter what and my distributors must abide by this under some form of written contract.....

it is not that simple since warranty is nothing more than marketing......
in fact OPCs take in acount several thing be4 issueing warranty....such as :

@ what price is that product sold in US, in UK, in Germany.....

how much is the cost of this product delivered to that country...

may be some parts are "very expensive" in absolute terms for someone to buy here in Greece than in US....

i cannot imagine that the same car i.e 996 C2 01 with aerokit has more problems in U.K than in U.S.....why why should it have?


anyway it is all marketing guys......(and marketing is everywere today...even when we buy bubble gums....)