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Old 02-25-2011, 05:44 PM
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Wow, that's a lot of "events"
Old 02-25-2011, 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Z356
Hey 'mate', I don't think this is the right forum for you to get on your lectern and express your odd political rants. Take it off-topic, please! Now, back to a very interesting auto enthusiast thread. Saludos, z356 (Carmel)
To me, that was no rant, it's barely a complete sentence. Second, I used Rumsfeld and the Bush empire builders as a well-understood example that people will recognize when they think of Mueller as spinning a story with a lot of verbiage so that later on, he can cherry pick what he considers valid quotes and what he disavows as misquotes.

Anyway, it sounds like, in this case, Mueller was misrepresented to some degree and he does have a conventional rolling product cycle.

ps. Have you been to "off topic"? ... it's a noisy zoo at feeding time. Over there, I'd be ostracized as taciturn.
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Drop it. If you are as smart as you think you are, you can come up with other ways to make your point instead of foisting your delusional conspiracies theories on the rest of us. Just slip a shrimp on the barbie, open your can of Foster's and give it a rest. Respectfully yours, z356
Old 02-25-2011, 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by excmag
“My target is to have a life cycle for the whole company, the whole brand, with a result that means we should, every year, have one big product event and a lot of smaller events. That means today, we have four or five products, but together with the Cajun and together maybe with the 550 we have six and we are looking for a seventh model adn then we could have every year one huge event and one bigger facelift, and then we have one and a half huge events and some smaller events..."
Wow, seven models?! Boxster, Cayman, 911, Panamera, Cayenne, Cajun and . . . and perhaps the 918? According to the latest issue of Evo, Porsche may introduce a "lower-priced" non-hybrid 918 to compete with the Ferrari 458. Now that would be sweet.
Old 02-25-2011, 09:19 PM
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as long as the gt models don't get compromised, then i remain happy.
maybe some economies of scale can help reduce prices?
as long as integrity remains intact......dangerous though, as we've all seen this
route taken by many companies before.
Old 02-26-2011, 12:36 AM
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Originally Posted by aussie jimmy
as long as the gt models don't get compromised, then i remain happy.
maybe some economies of scale can help reduce prices?
as long as integrity remains intact......dangerous though, as we've all seen this
route taken by many companies before.
economy of scale exist only in cost accounting.
to the consumers, no matter how low the manufacturing cost drops, it only increases manufacturer's margin, not your saving. dont be fooled.
Old 02-26-2011, 02:56 AM
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yeah, very true. and the product will most probably be inferior.
this happened to mercedes between 1996 - 2001



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