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The article is not super clear, but it seems like Skoda is more profitable by total profit, but not by profit margin. This will be true of any mass market car. McDonalds makes way more profit than any high end restaurant in Hollywood or Manhattan. This isn't a new phenomenon either. Porsche...

That is why we have multiple car companies with a range of products. Different customers have different priorities and means. The goal of the automakers is to extract as much profit as they can from their product (ok, maybe there are few exceptions, like the Cybertruck, made primarily for one...

For J1.1 that is definitely true. For the currently selling model J1.2, I've read that only the Turbo GT has unique hardware. I used this as an example of essentially software locked features. Other example which applies to J1.1 would be CT4 and CT4S, or GTS and Turbo. Folks already buy power...

They already tried, telling people how they should only be using Porsche EVSEs or lose warranty. It's probably still in the manual, and perpetuated by some dealers too.

If you buy a PlayStation4 or an iPhone, do you expect all software for it to be free? After all, all the hardware capabilities are there for all apps in the app store, so you're really just paying for bits which cost like $0.01 to transfer into your device. Taycan GTS and Turbo S have the same...

I think that less likely, however you as the owner might have a choice to enable some feature in exchange for watching ads. Let's look at an example. Taycan ST GTS is $156K, CT Turbo S is $220K. What's wrong with someone buying a GTS and paying $1,000 per month to get Turbo S performance only...

How is that different than leasing a feature, the same as you lease a car? Is it the fact that you can start and stop this feature lease at any time bother you, and even if the previous owner chose not to pay for the feature, the next one can?

Perhaps EV equivalent of NOS (Nitrous Oxide System) will be LNS (Liquid Nitrogen System).

In my 2015 Model S P85DL, which did not have enough stamina for repeated laps, I was still able to experience brake fade (along with power limits due to battery temps) when doing some spirited driving through some mountains terrain. While power limit was a little annoying (though unlike Taycan...

Ok, so if they do exploit them 1% of the time, then that is their heaviest load case, therefore that is the correct rating. Just like the one incline for the train, on which it probably spent 1% of its use. What is important to whom is always the big question. If range is your top priority, you...

What would be really interesting if they two were priced the same, then the sales in different region would tell us an interesting story.

You are assuming of course that Porsche has a cohesive visionary leadership driving the company in a clear direction and what they should be optimizing designs for, rather than the outcome is just sum of unrelated decisions by committee, most often optimizing for low risk and high profit. I...

Not directly Trump, but his election PAC sponsored, so he might take it personally (as he does many things) You are not wrong here. The stuff he's managed to pull off in his second term is frightening. I can't blame you being risk averse in the current situation.

Don't worry, Trump hard-on is not against the Brits, at least at the moment, especially since they are no loner a part of the EU. Unless of course you've personally pissed him off at any time in the past. Did any team you worked on ever beat any Trump owned racing teams in any races?

The problems is the Porsche price gap is greater than the functionality/drivability/features gap, and that difference seems to be growing. Taycan would likely outsell Model 3 Performance if the base trim was closer to the price of M3P ($55K in USA), especially if it came with a NACS connector in...

If only someone would invent a mode of travel to allow you to make a trip somewhere where you could test drive a Lucid, maybe even visit your friend who works there and let him show you what the car can do on their test track.

Have you heard of AUDI (not Audi)? Will there be a PORSCHE in addition to Porsche ?

I always thought it was the percentage that chooses Porsche over Mercedes or BMW or Lexus. Sure there were some who may also do it for esthetics (though personally I never found the ICE Macan very appealing) , and of course some for the badge (try to impress others), but I always thought that...

Yours must have been broken, the one I drove made a lot of noise whenever I put the right pedal down.

Oups, I misread your original comment. Completely agree with the above.