Please vote on which generation of recent 911 has the strongest brand identity
06-02-2008, 12:14 AM
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well here's the finished draft of the paper of those interested. i bet this is going to start some controversy...where's the popcorn?
http://www.stanford.edu/~dtscott/mse181.html
http://www.stanford.edu/~dtscott/mse181.html
06-03-2008, 01:10 PM
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well here's the finished draft of the paper of those interested. i bet this is going to start some controversy...where's the popcorn?
http://www.stanford.edu/~dtscott/mse181.html
http://www.stanford.edu/~dtscott/mse181.html
Take a look here at my article on European Delivery and Porsche production for some similar observations:
https://rennlist.com/forums/showthre...norama+Article
06-03-2008, 03:54 PM
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i found the article to get a fantastic review of porsche's history and evolution. i have some minor disagreements regarding potential customer disenfranchisement . i view the 993 as the most iconic 911but have a 997 because it's updated, better performance, etc. if you browse the signatures here, you see that there are many who owned 993's who now have 996's or 997's.
that said, many viewed the 996 as a "mistake" by porsche. i don't share this view, but it' prevalent. there was the change from air cooled to water - a natural progression, IMO, it was squishier, more targeted toward the prevailing view of what "americans" wanted, and then there were those headlights. i view the cooling issue as an engineering one, the others as primarily marketing. perhaps the integration of the headlights with other lighting was of lean manufacturing orgin but i think they were following a trend more than anything else. the bigger issue there was really not having a strong enough differentiation between the premium and super-premium entries.
in any regard, porsche seems to have done what great companies do, and reacted and adapted and the 997 seems to have extraordinary reception.
great read, thanks for sharing.
brendan
that said, many viewed the 996 as a "mistake" by porsche. i don't share this view, but it' prevalent. there was the change from air cooled to water - a natural progression, IMO, it was squishier, more targeted toward the prevailing view of what "americans" wanted, and then there were those headlights. i view the cooling issue as an engineering one, the others as primarily marketing. perhaps the integration of the headlights with other lighting was of lean manufacturing orgin but i think they were following a trend more than anything else. the bigger issue there was really not having a strong enough differentiation between the premium and super-premium entries.
in any regard, porsche seems to have done what great companies do, and reacted and adapted and the 997 seems to have extraordinary reception.
great read, thanks for sharing.
brendan
Since I sold my 1995 993 without the OBDII this year and model will always be a classic of the best air-cool.
06-04-2008, 03:52 PM
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thanks all for the positive feedback. certainly not what i'm getting on all fronts...seems to have pissed a lot of people off on the 996 forum!
06-05-2008, 02:31 AM
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The last 911 is always the best 911!
