Re: Problems with Porsche
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nberry said:
Hurst your too rational. Cars are all about emotion. What generates emotion differs from person to person. However, if the object remains primarily the same but with enhancements, after time the emotional attachment begins to wane.
So it is with Porsche. It was an icon to many of us when we were young. It had a special place in the automotive world and people coveted the car. However time has a way of dimming the luster of an object unless the object is modernized and refreshed.
I believe many Porschephiles have lost the strong emotional draw and are trying to find reasons to purchase the car. Thus the undue emphasis on hp, performance and racing. They want something special and extraordinary because that is how they remember the car.
Porsche is not marketing to the Porschephiles. It wants the general auto buyer and competes in that expanded market segment. Up until now, very successfully.
I completely agree with you about emotion. It's comments like this that I do not agree with:
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Thus when you buy a Porsche, it is not a special occasion because you are buying along with the masses.
Your own personal emotional response should be a sensory experience that is fomented by your apperception of the object. Why should it be guided by the views of others or the grouping with the masses?
Don't get me wrong, exclusivity is definitely a human hierarchical function, but it should not run egomaniacally rampant.
cars back, and that's the biggest problem I see.
), I'll be very interested to see what happens with Porsche's model line in the future.
