Variable-Assisted steering. Do you like it?
06-20-2006, 11:37 PM
#16
Official Wednesday AM Red Bull F1 test driver
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I'd say the steering feel in my 914 (or Lotus for that matter) is near perfect. No assist, just my arms...
BTW- I have the assist steering on my CS and my son's S4 has it and we like it on both vehicles
BTW- I have the assist steering on my CS and my son's S4 has it and we like it on both vehicles
06-21-2006, 01:05 AM
#17
Originally Posted by ltc
Dirty little PAG secret #11: 
Options that don't meet pre production marketing predicitons/expectations.
Say you develop an option....oh, I don't know, like ServoAssist steering, rearview camera, Cayenne Powerkit.....at a fairly substantial cost for development, tooling, testing, etc....and give an annual production # to the supplier in order to get a guaranteed price.
Now let's say folks don't order the option (uneducated buyers) and PAG is stuck with LOTS of inventory they had to purchase from their suppliers per agreements/contracts.....
What to do?
Simple.
Start installing them in all fleet/dealer/PCNA spec'd vehicles in order to run down the inventory
and/or
Invent a new model variant (CTTS or CSTi) and start loading those options on at a reduced cost to minimize your losses and meet overall vehicle sales #s
Options that don't meet pre production marketing predicitons/expectations.
Say you develop an option....oh, I don't know, like ServoAssist steering, rearview camera, Cayenne Powerkit.....at a fairly substantial cost for development, tooling, testing, etc....and give an annual production # to the supplier in order to get a guaranteed price.
Now let's say folks don't order the option (uneducated buyers) and PAG is stuck with LOTS of inventory they had to purchase from their suppliers per agreements/contracts.....
What to do?
Simple.
Start installing them in all fleet/dealer/PCNA spec'd vehicles in order to run down the inventory
and/or
Invent a new model variant (CTTS or CSTi) and start loading those options on at a reduced cost to minimize your losses and meet overall vehicle sales #s
Seems like good business practice to me. The company must get some level of Return on Investment for development.
Not all new things are bad......... If this were the case, then Bose would still be making and selling only the old 901 reflecting speaker and they wouldn't need sharp electrical engineers to design electronics. Unless you count a passive crossover network as electronic?
06-21-2006, 11:24 PM
#18
Racer
Originally Posted by Scott C
Seems like good business practice to me. The company must get some level of Return on Investment for development.
BTW, I personally would not own an SUV without variable-assist steering...it makes parking a snap
I don't have it and can manuevor my CS like a glove. This IMHO should have been a standard option.
