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Companies like Lotus and Porsche make significant money consulting with other car makers just for things like ride and handling.

It has good slalom course numbers, especially for a sedan, just under the Porsche Panamera.

In contrast, one of the great things about the Porsche 911 design is that you have incredibly clear 360 views with big windows.

I have a Porsche Macan S (small SUV) which has 0 to 60 times in the 5 second range.

The first Porsche predates the Type III by quite a few years.

The Porsche 911 is an exercise is excellent engineering defying abysmal physics.

It'd be hard for any company to touch the Porsche 911.

It's much like how Porsche cornered the market in Volkswagon shares.

Aren't VW and Porsche part of the same company?

Lufthansa has an entire separate terminal building with private immigration, security, private assistants, a restaurant, a massive bar and Mercedes or Porsche limousine service to the side of the plane.

So, anecdotally, low end Porsche models have sold well, like the Boxster and Cayman, and high end VW models have often not sold well, like the Phaeton.

The executive buys himself a Porsche not because it will get him anywhere any faster, or because she really knows how to drive it, but because it projects an image of what she could do.

I wouldn't go so far as to call one of my former bosses a "cunt" but he owned a Porsche 911 and would park in the best spot all the time.

Not to say that your point is inaccurate (it's actually very accurate; the ability for companies like Toyota to drive down costs goes a long way toward mass adoption, and it's something that "luxury" makers like Porsche don't typically have the experience in).

The design spec was probably something like “give the buyer the feeling they’ve got their money’s worth when they burn off their friends from the next set of red lights” not “beat a top-line Porsche round the Nürburgring”.

When they delivered her first Porsche, instead of being happy and high, my sister had a soul crushing rumination.

This is why VW is the world's most popular car maker, and not Porsche.

Take Porsche...they have a bullet proof brand so they can sell a Cayenne football mom SUV fairly easily...just costs a bit of brand dilution.