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Old 09-26-2008, 07:12 PM
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Default I just got my Panamera insiders book today in the mail

I can fill out the form and mail it in and have a
"unprecedented access to this uncompromised sports car
I got a couple forms to share this information with your closest Porsche enthusiast Friend!

I got a nice little sketch book to take notes on too.

Sure one month after I sell my Porsche I become a
"Porsche insider"
Old 09-26-2008, 08:17 PM
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Got the same thing, leafed through it, tossed it in the recycling bin. Something like 15 pages of "Notes" in the book?!? I'd rather they saved the money and used it on R&D
Old 09-26-2008, 08:26 PM
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or a new rear main seal

I got one too OG...and I'm nobody...
Old 09-26-2008, 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by OldGuy
I got a nice little sketch book to take notes on too.

Sure one month after I sell my Porsche I become a
"Porsche insider"
Well, I'm really very important and I didn't get one. I am so totally bummed out.

I did get a little box with a plaque and a crest telling me there is a new Porsche with direct fuel injection. Wait... Maybe I am really important. No, no note pad -- I guess not. (We Rennlisters already knew there was a new Porsche, anyway.)

PNA must have found out I bought a Mercedes, an Audi and a Ferrari since my '07 Porsche.
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Originally Posted by GoFastKindaGuy
Well, I'm really very important and I didn't get one. I am so totally bummed out.

I did get a little box with a plaque and a crest telling me there is a new Porsche with direct fuel injection. Wait... Maybe I am really important. No, no note pad -- I guess not. (We Rennlisters already knew there was a new Porsche, anyway.)

PNA must have found out I bought a Mercedes, an Audi and a Ferrari since my '07 Porsche.
How do you decide what to drive on the weekends between the RS, CGT & Scud? Man - I'd sell my kidney's for that Scud!
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how much can I get for one kidney?
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Originally Posted by C.J. Ichiban
how much can I get for one kidney?
C.J. get a Cup.You'll have fun trashing Scuds for half the price.
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My wife, who owned a Boxster 8 years ago!, got one. I bought my Gt3 from the local dealer and got bubkas!
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Originally Posted by RonCT
Got the same thing, leafed through it, tossed it in the recycling bin. Something like 15 pages of "Notes" in the book?!? I'd rather they saved the money and used it on R&D
Think those pages were to add heft.

Hope that's not indicative or anything...

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Great point Pete - why is everything oversized these days, including a 5 page nicely done artsy sketch brochure, that then becomes 25 pages with hard cover binding? Took me about 10 seconds to think about the ad concept - that I should keep this book and take it to the Porsche showroom over the next year and jot down my "field notes" of the new products coming... Brothers...
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"Porsche insider" WTF
You will become part of a small group granted unprecedented access to this uncompromised sports car
No more insight or access than "john q public" that signed up to view the Panamera Microsite.

I'm feeling really special now with a worthless book for notes.
at least I received a paperweight!

Marketing Data Mining at it's finest
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Originally Posted by RonCT
Great point Pete - why is everything oversized these days, including a 5 page nicely done artsy sketch brochure, that then becomes 25 pages with hard cover binding? Took me about 10 seconds to think about the ad concept - that I should keep this book and take it to the Porsche showroom over the next year and jot down my "field notes" of the new products coming... Brothers...
Remember when things that come in the mail used to seem like they were "worth" something. And how anything hand-crafted or special that does still seems valuable in the midst of all the computer-generated junk? I think they wanted it to seem like "something" you won't toss. Mission accomplished? I dunno, but I haven't tossed mine yet.

Hmmmn, let me fix that.

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Originally Posted by RonCT
Got the same thing, leafed through it, tossed it in the recycling bin. Something like 15 pages of "Notes" in the book?!? I'd rather they saved the money and used it on R&D
15 pages of notes, hopefully enough space to document RMS leaks for GT3 owners.
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Yeah. Total waste of time. Didn't share anything new or interesting about the Panamera.
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they should have at least told us...oh, by the way, we have decided not to make this thing


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