Mar 4, 2007 3:16:25 PM
- Alex_997TT
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Porsche and the EU CO2 emissions targets for 2012
In reading all these recent reports (eg. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03554475.htm) on how the EU is trying to enforce new cars to produce a max if 120g/km Carbon Dioxide emissions by 2012 I am wondering whether the following may result:
Direct Injection introduced to ALL models ASAP - thereby showing the EU that Porsche is trying to actively reduce its emissions, and as a result a new compromise on a higher figure reached.
If Porsche doesn't manage to fight this proposal, then whether the 997 Turbo will be the last flagship car made before the company has to close it's doors i.e. 2012 would have been about when the 998 Turbo would have been introduced, making the 997 the last ever Turbo!
I am sure the EU won't be ultimately allowed to damage Germany's economy so markedly by closing the likes of Porsche, BMW and Mercedes. However, it does make me wonder whether the new technology Porsche Marketing department seems to sit on (in order to keep selling year after year) will be released and we will see Porsches evolve at a much higher rate...
Your thoughts are welcome!
I am sure the EU won't be ultimately allowed to damage Germany's economy so markedly by closing the likes of Porsche, BMW and Mercedes. However, it does make me wonder whether the new technology Porsche Marketing department seems to sit on (in order to keep selling year after year) will be released and we will see Porsches evolve at a much higher rate...
Your thoughts are welcome!
) and the tax shortfall from low emission cars will be compensated/over-compensated by the owners of "high emission" cars 
