I have to agree that Porsche went through the dumper with the 911 and the 928 as well. Nobody was really ready for a high priced water cooled Porsche with the engine in front and being a V8. Decent sales of the 924, 924 turbo and the 944 helped alot.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ><<VW was the deep pockets for which helped Porsche survive the rough times.>> > >Except for the early fifties, Porsche had done pretty well until the early >eighties when 911 sales were in the dumper due to prices the public finally >balked at. Porsche freely admits that the 944 saved the company and that after >that period there have been more watercooled Porsches on the road than >aircooled >which the 911 drivers of course could not face. > >In the mid-nineties Porsche employed a Japanese company to come in and tell >them how to up their quality and cut production costs. The result was the 993 >and soon after they built the first zero-defects car in the company's history. >And, due to taking the Japanese advice, manufacturing cost of that model was >cut by one third. And no one was more surprised than I at the sales numbers of >the not-so-beautiful Cayenne. Turns out people will indeed pay 100 grand for >an SUV if it's fast and turns and stops, unlike the others. > >RLE > -- 69 280 SEL 120,000 Miles 72 350SL 108,000 Miles 2004 VW Passat 4 Motion 1999 Mazda Miata __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp
