Re: OFFICIAL: New 911 GT3 (991)
GTom:
Im not dreaming am I? This really doesnt look nice?
Sorry! It's real! I can't believe this ugly backside looks like a .....Hmmm? Okay, i don't see so joke car before. No emotion, no power but high price!
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Regarding design on the new 991 Turbo & Turbo S, have a close look at the now disfigured tachometer, then compare it with those of the Panamera and Cayenne turbos. Repeat the same exercise regarding the tail pipes of the 991 Turbo & Turbo S vs those of Panamera and Cayenne Turbo.
What can you spot?
This is where Porsche is now getting its inspiration for the sports cars. What do they think they are doing? Do they need to remind us, on sport cars, of the fact that they now mainly sell Cayennes and Pananeras? What do they think they are doing in recycling the tachometer from the Cayenne and Pananera? On a 911 Turbo!
Also, everybody noticed that the rising center console on the 991/981 was picked up from the Panamera (probably tons of ink in the press was wasted on the laudation of this center console). What about the useless, disgraceful and ostentatious “Porsche” inscription added to the model designation at the tail of the 991/981? Same thing. Go and check for yourself if you do not believe me. How can Porsche, including their head of design, say that a 911 always looks like a 911 (50 years now), but feel the need to add “Porsche” at the tail? Is the make of a 911 not obvious? I can understand that Porsche felt a little unsecure when the Panamera was released to a point of adding the name of the make at the tail of the cars, borrowing from the image of the sports cars at the same time (it is free, available, and cannot hurt, right?) ... but on a 911!
I find this kind of homogenization of the sports cars design with that of the Cayenne and Panamera outrageous, really demeaning for the sports cars.
It is sad enough to see that Porsche is now selling fewer sports cars than it used to do in the 1980’s – 1990’s (check the sale volumes, not just the proportion of the sports cars vs the others), to have become the manufacturer of Cayennes and Panameras predominantly. The fact that our favorite brand is now moving one step further and dares to align the design of the 991/981 to that of the best sellers is really adding insult to injury.
I have the sad premonition that Porsche is on its way to kill its sport cars segment.
It has no excuses for the declining sale volumes of its sport cars. The market on this segment is not declining. Check the progression of sale volumes of Ferrari during the last two decades and then compare it to the sale volumes of 911 over the same period. Want to double-check? Add Lamborghini in the equation. And there are new entrants (McLaren for example).
May be Porsche has ventured a little too far selling underpowered and overpriced sports cars.
That they announced their return to Le Mans shows that they understood it was about time to get back to work … as all Porsche customers know that there is no free lunch with them.
What do you think?