Porsche management appears to know their customers as well as; Target, Cracker Barrel, and Jaguar. Pssst … nobody wants or will buy an EV Porsche.
You mean nobody is going to buy an electric Porsche for its deep throated whine?
Computer generated … deep throated whine. Fake. Fake. Fake.
No one pines for a four-wheeled sewing machine.
I wanted a Porsche 911 once back when Porsche was a futuristic looking driving machine. However, I don`t want a modern over engineered over priced Democrat mobile that just spies on you.
WARNING! You are exceeding the posted speed limit! We will report this to your insurance company! Yeah, I can do without spy-cars.
And allow me to add my personal peeve/annoyance of our modern roadways … vehicular touchscreens. I swear to God … I’m gonna start rear-ending everyone fiddling with their giant dashboard mounted touchscreens while the light has turned green … or as they’re tooling along at 5 mph in a 35 mph zone. Arrrrgggghhhh !! Drive, you tool! Drive!
“And allow me to add my personal peeve/annoyance of our modern roadways … vehicular touchscreens.”
Do not get me started. Of all the things that should never be allowed in a car, that’s number one. The hand-eye coordination required to change the radio station guarantees that the driver will not be looking at or thinking about the road while they page through commands to get 102.1, the Spirit of Radio. Which, at 70mph, is bad. How many football fields sped by while you changed the station looking for Live Earl Jive and the lovely and talented Beverly Hills? Probably three, maybe four.
So why are they in every car now? Because the regulations are a SCAM, that’s why. You can tell something is a scam when they solemnly swear that it is all for SAFETY!!! but then they require something that is manifestly unsafe.
Knobs and switches are safe IF they are within arm’s reach of the driver, and IF there are not too many, and IF they are not too small. Touch screens are -not- safe, they are the equivalent of a radio knob that requires you to use a special screwdriver to turn it.
How much does government lie? A lot more than you’d think possible.
I love how many automobile manufacturers are actually returning to analog knobs and switches … because … well … when accompanied by proper ergonomic layout as you suggested … it’s just works better … and safer.
It’s against the law to handle your iPhone when driving … but fiddling with a touchscreen is OK? Who writes these idiotic laws?
“She lived like a murder, but she died
Just like suicide”
Amazingly, very few people want to pay half a million dollars for a car which is very fast, but your first service costs $20,000. Because you have to literally take the car apart to change the oil and do the spark plugs. God help you if you need to change the oil in the transmission. Or if you bend something whilst racing on the Nürburgring.
But -why- is a Porsche built like that in 2025? They have computers to handle all this design stuff, right? Why do you have to take out the back seat to get at the spark plugs? (You do, by the way, have to take out the back seat. And part of the firewall. For real.)
Because the EU (and the USA, let’s not forget them) has decreed auto regulations so insane that they had to do it that way or the car would be slow as a slug. The problem with regulations is that they -stack-up- until the restrictions require a true mechanical miracle to comply with them all.
Behold the miracle that is the 2025 Porsche. Meets EU regs, costs half a million bucks, and you can’t fix it.
They could make it for a quarter million in China. But then it would only last one lap of the Nürburgring.
Why do you have to take out the back seat to get at the spark plugs? (You do, by the way, have to take out the back seat. And part of the firewall. For real.)
Hahahaha … because it’s a “mid engine” supercar! It’s sooooooo well balanced for incredible cornering! And after a few high speed corners … if you, the typical untrained idiot-driver survives … you’ll have to change the burned-up plugs.
Competitive manufacturing has been de facto outlawed courtesy of Germany’s elevated electricity prices.
Thank you, God of Windmills.
Huh? Yet another victim of the “transition” to EV’s … who coulda predicted?
https://en.as.com/latest_news/the-reason-why-porsche-is-losing-billions-the-car-manufacturers-stunning-financial-collapse-f202510-n/
Porsche management appears to know their customers as well as; Target, Cracker Barrel, and Jaguar. Pssst … nobody wants or will buy an EV Porsche.
You mean nobody is going to buy an electric Porsche for its deep throated whine?
Computer generated … deep throated whine. Fake. Fake. Fake.
No one pines for a four-wheeled sewing machine.
I wanted a Porsche 911 once back when Porsche was a futuristic looking driving machine. However, I don`t want a modern over engineered over priced Democrat mobile that just spies on you.
WARNING! You are exceeding the posted speed limit! We will report this to your insurance company! Yeah, I can do without spy-cars.
And allow me to add my personal peeve/annoyance of our modern roadways … vehicular touchscreens. I swear to God … I’m gonna start rear-ending everyone fiddling with their giant dashboard mounted touchscreens while the light has turned green … or as they’re tooling along at 5 mph in a 35 mph zone. Arrrrgggghhhh !! Drive, you tool! Drive!
“And allow me to add my personal peeve/annoyance of our modern roadways … vehicular touchscreens.”
Do not get me started. Of all the things that should never be allowed in a car, that’s number one. The hand-eye coordination required to change the radio station guarantees that the driver will not be looking at or thinking about the road while they page through commands to get 102.1, the Spirit of Radio. Which, at 70mph, is bad. How many football fields sped by while you changed the station looking for Live Earl Jive and the lovely and talented Beverly Hills? Probably three, maybe four.
So why are they in every car now? Because the regulations are a SCAM, that’s why. You can tell something is a scam when they solemnly swear that it is all for SAFETY!!! but then they require something that is manifestly unsafe.
Knobs and switches are safe IF they are within arm’s reach of the driver, and IF there are not too many, and IF they are not too small. Touch screens are -not- safe, they are the equivalent of a radio knob that requires you to use a special screwdriver to turn it.
How much does government lie? A lot more than you’d think possible.
I love how many automobile manufacturers are actually returning to analog knobs and switches … because … well … when accompanied by proper ergonomic layout as you suggested … it’s just works better … and safer.
It’s against the law to handle your iPhone when driving … but fiddling with a touchscreen is OK? Who writes these idiotic laws?
“She lived like a murder, but she died
Just like suicide”
Amazingly, very few people want to pay half a million dollars for a car which is very fast, but your first service costs $20,000. Because you have to literally take the car apart to change the oil and do the spark plugs. God help you if you need to change the oil in the transmission. Or if you bend something whilst racing on the Nürburgring.
But -why- is a Porsche built like that in 2025? They have computers to handle all this design stuff, right? Why do you have to take out the back seat to get at the spark plugs? (You do, by the way, have to take out the back seat. And part of the firewall. For real.)
Because the EU (and the USA, let’s not forget them) has decreed auto regulations so insane that they had to do it that way or the car would be slow as a slug. The problem with regulations is that they -stack-up- until the restrictions require a true mechanical miracle to comply with them all.
Behold the miracle that is the 2025 Porsche. Meets EU regs, costs half a million bucks, and you can’t fix it.
They could make it for a quarter million in China. But then it would only last one lap of the Nürburgring.
Why do you have to take out the back seat to get at the spark plugs? (You do, by the way, have to take out the back seat. And part of the firewall. For real.)
Hahahaha … because it’s a “mid engine” supercar! It’s sooooooo well balanced for incredible cornering! And after a few high speed corners … if you, the typical untrained idiot-driver survives … you’ll have to change the burned-up plugs.
Competitive manufacturing has been de facto outlawed courtesy of Germany’s elevated electricity prices.
Thank you, God of Windmills.