Porsche knows their market, but sometimes they cannot react to it. Their hands are tied one way or another.

The Motorsport NA engine is not fuel efficient, they needed the regular turbo-ed cars to bring down the average fuel economy. If they make more of the NA cars then the average will skewed up. It doesn't help that their SUV is their best sellers which already skew the average up. And a manual Motorsport NA car is also worse on the fuel economy cycle than a PDK.

That engine also cost more, how high can they price a car? Their current lineup is already up there and the public is not reacting too well.

Of course they know a whole bunch of their customers loved a manual in a GT car, could they have made more R? Of course, but not much more. They are confined to factory build slots, Stuttgart factory is pretty much maxed out on production, and parts availability, a lot of those parts like the engine and the roof is being soaked up by the demand on the GT3RS. Other parts are restrained by their suppliers, the single plate clutch for example, a lot of the orders got that option deleted and even wit hey late build in Oct it is still not a confirmed option. The lithium battery option is another, they actually took that off the option list and on car orders. The car will also only be done in 2016, it will need to be re-certified again if it span more than one model year. 

Porsche knows there is a hot demand for a "R" type of car after the R fiasco. So perhaps they will do one in the .2 series as a regular non-limited car, a GT3 sans wing. But it will likely be production limited also. There just isn't enough production slots available in the Stuttgart factory. If they make more of these 'gas guzzling' sports car, it means they make less of the more fuel economy ones, skewing their fuel economy average again. Didn't help that they bring back all the Cayman/Boxster production back to Stuttgart.

One solution might be to get a 3rd factory going, or buy up more land around Stuttgart to expand, but with the diesel gate, there aren't a lot of 'free' money to go around. 


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