If tariffs happen, maybe it cure us of our addiction?



But seriously, it wouldn’t be good for Porsche as many of us here would decide differently if we had to pay $40K more.

Glad my Touring is due stateside late August, which should be well before this might happen.

Chinese customers will love if if the tariffs happen. They already got the 3.0L engine to be affordable in their market, and if Porsches suddenly become less affordable in the US, that’ll just make them all that more desireable over there when they can have a luxury that a reduced number over here can.

Since you mention Corvettes, Camaros, and Mustangs, I wonder why more of those aren’t purchased abroad with the money that results from our trade imbalances... on right it’s because we keep selling them more and more government debt as taxes get lower and spending balloons. It’s a much smarter investment than Covettes, Camaros and Mustangs which might be nice new but depreciate rather badly as they fall apart due to poor build quality.

Trade is a complicated issue. Where do you get your information about dealer organizations and unions? Or is this merely your opinion?

Oh sorry if I got off topic a bit I thought this was in P &C.

what are talking about?

Congress reduced the upper income tax bracket by 3% but took away a host of deductions. If you live inhigh tax states like CA and NY you will have higher taxes. Businesses got the biggest tax breaks and will see their taxes go down.

An interesting question is whether the dealers will accept the cars from PCNA if they know they cannot sell the car because of the high tariffs. Accepting the car means paying for it. Unless they know they can sell it, some dealers may decide they cannot afford to floor plan it and reject the car (I’m not sure if they are contractually bound to accept .the car.

The way the tariff would work is it would be paid by Porsche (as the importer) on the car when it arrives in the US and clears customs. All cars are currently subject to a 2.5% “tariff” now. Anyone who has imported a car personally can see how it works.

While Porsche could just up the MSRP by the amount of the tariff, that is not a foregone conclusion either in it happening at all, happening right away, or happening at the same amount of the tariff.

I am sure PAG has various contingency plans in place, but I would suspect that they would not immediately up the MSRP on all cars by the amount of the tariff. I would suspect it would be less than the amount of the tariff, likely phased in over time, and also may not include cars on order as that would create a lot of ill will and headaches. Maybe that is wishful thinking, but it is more realistic than some other scenarios.

My info came from my sales manager as to what the industry organizations are doing which is believable.

PAG keeping the cars in Germany until tariffs end is a good idea. Sending bills of sale in advanced is another good idea but I guess it depends on how the law is written. Unless this later tactic clearly works and an exception under the tariff I would not buy the car and the get caught in a fight with the Fed over it. No way. Not worth it.

PAG eating the tariff? Lol. They won’t even reduce the price of a WP here in the States when we don’t even get the roll bar. They have one way pockets.

Did you know we have a 20% tariff on EU trucks and vans? WTF? We are protecting our truck industry. If I’m Germany etc that has to be reduced. What’s good for the goose...

Our economy would be devastated by a trade war with the EU. While at first I thought used GT cars might go up in value I’m not so sure if the economy goes in the crapper.

If if you are paying an adm do you think a piggish dealership is going to revert their adm into the tax for you and give it up to the Fed.

China deserves to get kickef in the *****. Duplicitous they are. China steals, lies, manipulates and cheats. Mexico too. They ain’t our friends. They are consistently f’ing us from immigration to trade. Now Canada getting hit I didn’t understand but I guess the EU is looking at that and saying to themselves “this guy it’s nuts, we better work this out”.

A 20% tariff has me walking 100%.