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The problem with the newer Porsches is that many dynamic features which make a difference, like PDCC, PTV, PSE, Powerkit and from the next generation AWSteering are super expensive optional extras. This is unacceptable on an iconic sportscar that should perform at 100% out of the box. And I am sure these extras don't really cost a lot to Porsche. It is just an unscrupulous exercise in profit maximization. 

It's hard to argue in a free market economy that profit maximisation is unscrupulous, unless product manufacturers or suppliers have formed an illegal cartel artificially maintain prices at a high level.  Smiley

It should be up to the competitors in a market to keep each other "honest" by offering equally good or better products at lower prices. Companies like Apple and Porsche only get away with their pricing policies if the market is prepared to acknowledge that their products still offer acceptable value for money in comparison with the others on offer.

Whenever attempts have been made to regulate prices to protect consumers, it has generally resulted in a lack of supply or poor choice of goods, or even in black markets which only benefit the illegal profiteers.  

Fritz, to make your Porsche as it should be as a top sportscar you must add a number of expensive performance extras. I am not talking about expensive cosmetic extras which are a matter of personal taste.

It would have been more honest of Porsche, as one of the top sportscar manufacturers, if these items were included in the spec and in a reasonably elevated standard spec price rather than having a low official starting price which no one has ever paid in order for the cars to appear price competitive on paper. In the end some crucial items are not ordered and thus left out (either through ignorance or to facilitate the sale by PZ)  and the customer ends up with an inferior car compared to the magazine figures and what is promoted by Porsche marketing and to what competitors offer in their all-inclusive packages.

See how the cars given to Sport Auto and other magazines include the whole lot of extras without which the 911 is not the same.

For example how many 911s are ordered with PDCC at 3.000 EUR? If it was made affordable and preferably standard in a slightly higher starting price, more Porsche fans would enjoy this Porsche innovation. The same applies to the Sport   Chrono Pack a 1.600 EUR extra which if ommited reduces the performance of what is advertised as a top sportscar.

I was just picking up on your use of the term "unscrupulous".

Thinking about it, though, unscrupulous might after all not be so wide of the mark when describing the work of a marketing department.   Smiley

Unscrupulous in the sense of misleading the uninitiated buyer into buying something which lacks in performance/dynamic features on a top of the line sportscar.

You can get all the features on BMW, Jaguar, AMG etc. on their out of the box versions.


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