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Sooooo thinking about placing a deposit. Registered on the Porsche site and dealer contacted me within a couple of hours. Was told that Porsche will be producing based on deposits. If no deposit, could be 1-2 years to get one after release. $2500 fully refundable....hmmmm. This definitely has me more excited than any Tesla. Between this and the Audi E TRON.
I would get your deposits in. First run is only 1200 cars and second only 10,000. As a point of reference, Tesla produced 120,000 during the past 12 mos.
Deposit for a regular sedan. F them. When did it become normal for customers to provide free financing to car dealers and wait a year for a standard road car? Oh you want that shirt? Tell you what, give me $100 and I’ll put you on a list and get it to you in 8 weeks.... No thanks. I’d rather not be your free risk hedge.
I would get your deposits in. First run is only 1200 cars and second only 10,000. As a point of reference, Tesla produced 120,000 during the past 12 mos.
Where did you see this? Is that worldwide supply? That is really low. How many tunes are they doing in a year?
Deposits are as minimal as $1000.00 to get your name on a waiting list for this car. That is not financing very much on a well spec'd $95,000 E vehicle. Additional smaller Balance is due when order (build out) is complete and pay out when car is delivered. Or loose your deposita by then and let the dealer reallocate it. If first run is only 1200 units as anticipated I rather be on the right side of this one. Since 10 months ago!
Where did you see this? Is that worldwide supply? That is really low. How many tunes are they doing in a year?
Dealer asked me if I wanted an early or late allocation. Early allocation is 1200 cars and late is 10,000 cars. Time period not defined but since this is a new factory and new car I assume first year (ie approx 1000/mo) but don't know that for sure.
Deposits are as minimal as $1000.00 to get your name on a waiting list for this car. That is not financing very much on a well spec'd $95,000 E vehicle. Additional smaller Balance is due when order (build out) is complete and pay out when car is delivered. Or loose your deposita by then and let the dealer reallocate it. If first run is only 1200 units as anticipated I rather be on the right side of this one. Since 10 months ago!
Good luck to all!
Deposits are only $2500 fully refundable. No biggie.
If the entire run of the car is going to be 11,200 cars worldwide, the idea that this will be a Tesla killer is laughable.
I disagree from a product standpoint. Perhaps from a production standpoint at least for some time you would be correct. However Tesla only produces 120,000 cars a year which isn't much either in the car business. They are constrained with limited access to capital and a huge burn rate. Porsche won't be Tesla's challenger but combined Mercedes, BMW, VW Porsche, Audi, Volvo etc etc will be for sure in a giant way.
the 120,00- cars a year is quickly becoming yesterdays' news - today's new is - if Porsche is only planning to build 10,000 cars and small change then this will not be competitive with Tesla and a very very poor investment in a new factory and capital expenditures for a charging network - Tesla is finally, slowly and painfully figuring out how to build the Model 3 in volume, and they are doing to the mid size sedan market what they did to the four door large sedan market - dominating sales…it makes no sense for the Taycan to be 10,000 car production - that's less than the 20,000 unit runs of Chevy Bolts GM is tepidly engaging in - if it's true it means the big boy still don't get the whole EV thing and think it's a fad…
This is the only info that I've seen regarding production numbers. "....When asked about production targets, Reimold confirmed the company is set up for 20,000 units annually, but that there’s “a little leeway to increase that.”
Hopefully they do plan to increase for more production.
Porsche’s sports cars have never been a volume play and they’ve consistently described the Taycan as a 4-door sports car, not a mass market vehicle. They may do other vehicles in the future in higher volume, but this notion that the Taycan is a “Tesla killer” is ridiculous. Porsche wants to first and foremost keep their buyers in their brand for all of their vehicle needs and then expand their customer base. As they noted, more than a few Porsche customers bought a Tesla - they want those customers back. I hope Porsche never becomes a volume play and isn’t getting distracted by trying to beat Tesla on sales.
Deposit for a regular sedan. F them. When did it become normal for customers to provide free financing to car dealers and wait a year for a standard road car? Oh you want that shirt? Tell you what, give me $100 and I’ll put you on a list and get it to you in 8 weeks.... No thanks. I’d rather not be your free risk hedge.
Dealer stories on the deposits as usual, just trying to get some free working cap. If the deposit was required it would have been in the Porsche system not an optional dealer follow up. Have an early slot with no deposit required, so do some first time buyers I referred to my dealer.
I would get your deposits in. First run is only 1200 cars and second only 10,000. As a point of reference, Tesla produced 120,000 during the past 12 mos.
Can one define first run and second? Is this 11,200 cars for the total 2020 model year for the US market or worldwide market? Just put my deposit in so just trying to determine likelihood of a Tesla wait list scenario or a more realistic Porsche waitlist scenario.
07-18-2018, 12:57 AM
Deposit for a regular sedan. F them. When did it become normal for customers to provide free financing to car dealers and wait a year for a standard road car? Oh you want that shirt? Tell you what, give me $100 and I’ll put you on a list and get it to you in 8 weeks.... No thanks. I’d rather not be your free risk hedge. 
