It was announced recently that Porsche has appointed a new CEO who was formerly the head of product management at VW owned Audi. Matthias Mueller was said to be a driving force at Audi which is what Porsche need for their line-up of cars.
This comes after figures showing that its entry-level Boxster and Cayman models have suffered a 12 percent decline in deliveries to 7,630 in its first nine months. Counteracting this drop, Porsche introduced the 53,100 euro Boxster Spyder which featured the 3.4-litre six cylinder engine impractically designed to drive with the textile roof down, which even I could see was not great planning for an entry level model which should be more practical.
Thus the German automaker have already drafted up plans to double the number of models in its line-up from four to eight. This will include adding a new range of cars similar to the Boxster but smaller, hopefully in price as well. Accomplishing this, Porsche will utilize platforms within the VW range, already seen with the Cayenne SUV, sharing its platform with the Toureg and Audi Q7.
Rumours of a Porsche Golf have been repeated on and on in the past few years and perhaps that will finally come to reality? But the idea of a smaller Boxster-like vehicle with an engine up front driving the front wheels is just weird!
Porsche aims to bolster up sales to a point where they will be producing 150,000 units of vehicles globally by 2013, along with surpassing Toyota in deliveries and profitability by 2018.
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look cute! ;)
looks like VW Scirocco…
i agree. it does look like a scirocco
Yeah…. these days car buyers looking for “value for money”, not many rich ppl tend to stick with 1 brand, especially Mercedes sport, BMW sport, even Nissan GTR only price 700K on par with 911Turbo performance but 1/2 the price only!!! *not include status*
depends on the rich ppl also. nissan is jap..porsche is conti car. rich ppl mostly prefer conti car. unless the rich ppl is young..then he prefer jap sports car.
it’d be nice if porsche can come out with rivals to scirocco or golf gti.
This is not good, i mean a mass produced Porsche? They should let other VW models takes care of that and maintain Porsche as an exclusive brand.
this great!!A porsche based on the A1/A3 should be a nice contender for the 1-series.but of course,a porsche is a porsche~!
A porsche in scirocco body?
An entry level, front engined Porsche is nice, as long as it follows the design cues of the iconic 944 & 968 models. Meaning a proper sports coupe!! Not something like the quasi hatch/coupe thingy that Alfa, VW and Renault had produced nowadays.
the “Porsche” name which was previously exclusive to and synonymous with being a precisely built sports car has been diluted to mass produced luxury cars…
thanks to the money making objective of VW… the cayenne was the little rock that started the snowball… its just disgusting… boxster and cayman is ok… but cayenne and panamera… was just overkill
Hmnm… Wont be surprised that this car has a 1.6.
Not bad, more ppl will be getting Porsche soon!!!
Its no longer a dream to drive one….
haha
suv, smaller boxsters n next up, Porsche MPV
looks like VW plus 308 vti…but more handsome! one look like i can afford it but porche..no way i can afford it..huhu…nway nice design..