RE: Porsche design boss quizzed
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cavebloke said:
Porsche said:
It is often more important to be different. It is not more important to be better.
Genius. What could be less different than buying a 911 like everyone else?
) but less Hypercar, more road racer.
Whiters said:
RacerMike said:
Here's a question. Would a 911 still be a 911 if it looked completely different? IMHO. No!
^That. +1OlberJ said:
All cars of the same model look the same. It's hardly a surprise and if you like it and it sells then why change it?
Just mould it a little different and keep em coming.
It's not as if Porsche don't make many other types of cars currently.
I think we're all waiting for the Porsche hot hatch; A re-bodied Golf R, awd complete with 'S' moniker and optional red strip across boot lid.Just mould it a little different and keep em coming.
It's not as if Porsche don't make many other types of cars currently.
You can balk at the ideal but we all know they'd sell crap loads!
Anyone who's ever been in a meeting that contains a "mood board" will happilly kill turtle neck sweater, horn rimmed spec wearing industrial design twonks.
But the fact is it's about brand recognition, Aston Martin haven't changed their grill design since the DB3 and even that was just a squashed DB1/2 - it's done them ok.
What industrial desingers aim for is even with the removal of all branding customers to intuitively feel affinity with the design and be able to place it in their mind. You know it works too. I can tell a BMW, Audi, Volvo at night from 200metres just by the shape of their rear light clusters, but then again I am sad.
But the fact is it's about brand recognition, Aston Martin haven't changed their grill design since the DB3 and even that was just a squashed DB1/2 - it's done them ok.
What industrial desingers aim for is even with the removal of all branding customers to intuitively feel affinity with the design and be able to place it in their mind. You know it works too. I can tell a BMW, Audi, Volvo at night from 200metres just by the shape of their rear light clusters, but then again I am sad.
Don't forget the £4000 optional painted brake calipers.
Porsche built 105,000 cars in 2007/8
Porsche is now primarily building SUVs and big saloons - sportscars are only a sideline.
- 34,303 (32.6%) were 911 models
- 22,356 (21.3%) were Boxster/Cayman
- 48,497 (46.1%) were Cayennes
Porsche is now primarily building SUVs and big saloons - sportscars are only a sideline.
Ozzie Osmond said:
Porsche is now primarily building SUVs and big saloons - sportscars are only a sideline.
I like to think the stuff they're selling en masse (which I love, Panamera included), helps fund the development of sillier models, which I also love. Long may it continue IMO. Never going to please everyone - particularly snarky internet forums - but the figures suggest they're pleasing more than enough folks already, me included.
Ozzie Osmond said:
Porsche built 105,000 cars in 2007/8
Porsche is now primarily building SUVs and big saloons - sportscars are only a sideline.
Hmm, from that stat it's still over 50%, and even if the Cayenne slice has doubled with the Panamera arrival, it would still be over 30%, so hardly sideline imo.- 34,303 (32.6%) were 911 models
- 22,356 (21.3%) were Boxster/Cayman
- 48,497 (46.1%) were Cayennes
Porsche is now primarily building SUVs and big saloons - sportscars are only a sideline.
Hellbound said:
I think we're all waiting for the Porsche hot hatch; A re-bodied Golf R, awd complete with 'S' moniker and optional red strip across boot lid.
You can balk at the ideal but we all know they'd sell crap loads!
Sounds more like a Porsche than a diesel SUV does. Sounds like a modern day Audi RS2, in fact. Sounds good.You can balk at the ideal but we all know they'd sell crap loads!
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