Porsche to scale to 500,000 cars a year?

[Westworld]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...abs%3Dcomments

[SrfCity]

Where's it state the 500K? With today's pricing their dreaming if true. They can't sell all they make currently.

[Westworld]

Originally Posted by SrfCity

Where's it state the 500K? With today's pricing their dreaming if true. They can't sell all they make currently.

"By 2020, he estimates, Porsche could quadruple its sales, to as many as 500,000 cars a year, leveraging Volkswagen-driven plans to launch a small sport utility vehicle and other models. Last year, Porsche sold nearly 119,000 cars, more than half of which were Cayenne SUVs and Porsche’s Panamera sedans."

[anunakki]

They obviously see the world economy improving...

A lot of population estimates show a growth of around 500m between now and 2020 and China's upper middle class is growing very fast.

So its not completely unreasonable that Porsche could pull that off

[judge4re]

Are there really that many dentists in the world?

[PFSEX]

Cayannes are tremendously popular in China...maybe because so many of the roads are in poor condition.

Still though, 500K is a huge number to sell at current Porsche prices.

WE sahll see.

[Simon^2]

By my rough calculation,... they'll need to release a 911 special edition every day.

[Jedi]

Just curious why this is in the "Ferrari Discussion" section

Jedi

[Simon^2]

Originally Posted by Jedi

Just curious why this is in the "Ferrari Discussion" section

Jedi

Because it hasn't been moved.

[open roads]

Originally Posted by Jedi

Just curious why this is in the "Ferrari Discussion" section

Jedi

Because we will have to compete against this jaugernaught.

[sanchezdds]

Originally Posted by judge4re

Are there really that many dentists in the world?

I don't get your statement/question???

[Piper]

Originally Posted by judge4re

Are there really that many dentists in the world?

Originally Posted by sanchezdds

I don't get your statement/question???

LOL

[furmano]

Originally Posted by judge4re

Are there really that many dentists in the world?

Nice one!

-F

[amenasce]

Originally Posted by judge4re

Are there really that many dentists in the world?

Im jewish but not a dentist.

[Jedi]

Originally Posted by open roads

Because we will have to compete against this jaugernaught.

Well, then we should DEFINITELY have the Corvette discussions in this section too...



Jedi

[sanchezdds]

Originally Posted by amenasce

Im jewish but not a dentist.

I'm a dentist but not Jewish.
I think the guy is a anti-dentite, lol

[JPSIII]

Originally Posted by judge4re

Are there really that many dentists in the world?

Too funny

[SrfCity]

Originally Posted by Westworld

"By 2020, he estimates, Porsche could quadruple its sales, to as many as 500,000 cars a year, leveraging Volkswagen-driven plans to launch a small sport utility vehicle and other models. Last year, Porsche sold nearly 119,000 cars, more than half of which were Cayenne SUVs and Porsche’s Panamera sedans."

The only way to pull that off is make a cheapy version for volume, which would cannibalize the brand. VW has a stigma as a kinda blah volume brand as it is. They can dream though

[Westworld]

Originally Posted by SrfCity

The only way to pull that off is make a cheapy version for volume, which would cannibalize the brand. VW has a stigma as a kinda blah volume brand as it is. They can dream though

Don't they already share a lot of parts and platforms? Porsche really shot itself in the foot when they tried to takeover VW, but then got a successful reverse takeover attempt on them.

[Bullfighter]

Originally Posted by PFSEX

Cayannes are tremendously popular in China...maybe because so many of the roads are in poor condition.

Still though, 500K is a huge number to sell at current Porsche prices.

WE sahll see.

I could see Cayenne sales getting them somewhere near that high given China, although probably the hybrid version given their air quality crisis there.

Still... kind of a reach unless they ramp up production capacity in Asia.