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stubenhocker said:
The German politicians seem hell bent on destroying their auto industry!



Not really. The German Bundestag has voted against it just a couple of weeks ago. That could change though in case the Reds/Greens would win the next federal elections in 2009 (god forbid).

The main threat is coming from the EU. Obviously the French and the Italians use the CO2 hype as a Trojan horse to strengthen their car industry (mostly small cars with low emissions) vs. the German competitors.

Only yesterday the EU comission announced their plan about a kind of gas guzzlers tax (CO2 based).

If these plan would be put in force, the "fine" for a BoxsterS would be about 12,000 Euro in 2015 (don't try to compute the figure for a Cayenne Turbo)

Of course the German government will not support these crazy plans. They used even pretty strong language by naming it a new "industry war". Adenauer and de Gaulle will rotate in their graves watching how the European idea is going to be perverted by today's politicians