One of the first magazine test drives:
EXCELLENCE MAGAZINE
Anyone know where the test loop is? I've been trying to figure this out for a while...
Looks like Pete said some of the same things I said about the car in my review, how the handling had become more Cayman-like, etc.
One other item of Note, Porsche expects the 911 to be 30% of their car sales next year? Currently the 911 is between 20 and 21% of all Porsches sold in the US. It would seem to suggest that other models would be giving p sales, so where is other 9-10% going to be carved away from? Cayenne? Panamera? Not that you can't increase the size of the pie overall, but 30% seems rather ambitious to me, although given how all of the Porche models tanked in October as compared to prior months I guess anything is possible...
The latest 911 is always the best ever. The king is dead, long live the king!
I once heard that California bought more 911s than the rest of the world combined. Any truth to that? I heard it was Porsche's largest market. Bigger than other countries.
"Somewhere in California, the deep crescendo of 3.8-liter, water-cooled, flat-six engines being wound to their redlines shoots from the tailpipes of a smattering of new 911 Carrera S sports cars and bounces off desert canyon walls"
Great
start to a very promising review.....
As mentioned, sounds like the 991 will become more Cayman-like in its handling (
good
point), whilst being easier to live with than earlier models.
Almost - but not quite - want one!
Hawc,
I find it hard to believe California is a bigger 911 market than rest-of-the-world combined. There's an awful lot of them in Germany. California is the biggest single market perhaps?
Anyhow, next Easter I'm coming over to California for a holiday. It will be an almighty pleasure to make my own research on that topic.....:dance:
In the 70s and 80s the US had about 50% of Porsche's market share. Of that about 35-40% were sold in California. I believe that the majority of the 930 Turbos sold legally in the US were bought in California (76-79/84-89). It is possible that more 930 Turbos were sold in California than in the ROW combined during those years. Since the 2000s Porsche has become much more global in scope w/ increased focus on the "emerging markets", and so the US, while still a major Porsche consumer, is far less dominant than a generation ago.
