2.6% price increase Jan 1, 2013
#16
12-10-2012, 09:17 AM
http://press.porsche.com/news/release.php?id=751
Rest of world, excluding Europe, is smoking hot too.
#18
12-10-2012, 01:27 PM
I hate to sound off putting but if you are looking at a 100K car and its 2,600 more expensive that what you thought and you decide against it you really didnt like/love the car from the beginning.
#19
12-10-2012, 04:04 PM
Spoke with the store manager today at my dealer and this is what he said:
1. He has heard nothing about an increase but typically when there are price increases its at the beginning of a model year and we are in the currently in the middle of the 2013 model year.
2. He stated that a 2.6% would be extremely high and he felt if it were something to really happen it would be Moore like a 0.5% to an outside chance of 1%
He thought some salesmen or dealers maybe be trying to use this as a sales tatic. He stated he would check into this for me and let me know as I have a 991 currelnly on order with them.
1. He has heard nothing about an increase but typically when there are price increases its at the beginning of a model year and we are in the currently in the middle of the 2013 model year.
2. He stated that a 2.6% would be extremely high and he felt if it were something to really happen it would be Moore like a 0.5% to an outside chance of 1%
He thought some salesmen or dealers maybe be trying to use this as a sales tatic. He stated he would check into this for me and let me know as I have a 991 currelnly on order with them.
#21
12-10-2012, 08:23 PM
Did they indicate when this would take effect? I should be hearing back from my dealer tomorrow or Wednesday on what he found out. If what your dealer said is a fact mine should have the same memo.
#22
12-10-2012, 10:42 PM
I confirmed this with my dealer. He showed me the actual bulletin (or whatever it is) from a web site. 2.6% increase in 911's for all orders placed after Dec 31. This applies to the base prices only, not options.
Initially he told me it probably applied to all 911's that arrived after Dec 31 (since they invoice the cars upon arrival to the U.S.), but then he read the memo more carefully and it stated that Porsche will actually compensate the dealers the difference as long as the car was ordered by Dec 31 (he showed me the actual memo).
So bottom line, place your orders by Dec 31 so you don't get hit with the price hike.
And $2600 is nothing to sneeze at. That's like paying for another big option or package and getting nothing in return, not to mention it affects the tax you pay as well (a big deal if you live in CA like I do). These cars are already expensive as it is.
Initially he told me it probably applied to all 911's that arrived after Dec 31 (since they invoice the cars upon arrival to the U.S.), but then he read the memo more carefully and it stated that Porsche will actually compensate the dealers the difference as long as the car was ordered by Dec 31 (he showed me the actual memo).
So bottom line, place your orders by Dec 31 so you don't get hit with the price hike.
And $2600 is nothing to sneeze at. That's like paying for another big option or package and getting nothing in return, not to mention it affects the tax you pay as well (a big deal if you live in CA like I do). These cars are already expensive as it is.
Last edited by ww007; 12-10-2012 at 10:45 PM.
#24
12-14-2012, 02:08 PM
I confirmed this with my dealer. He showed me the actual bulletin (or whatever it is) from a web site. 2.6% increase in 911's for all orders placed after Dec 31. This applies to the base prices only, not options.
Initially he told me it probably applied to all 911's that arrived after Dec 31 (since they invoice the cars upon arrival to the U.S.), but then he read the memo more carefully and it stated that Porsche will actually compensate the dealers the difference as long as the car was ordered by Dec 31 (he showed me the actual memo).
So bottom line, place your orders by Dec 31 so you don't get hit with the price hike.
And $2600 is nothing to sneeze at. That's like paying for another big option or package and getting nothing in return, not to mention it affects the tax you pay as well (a big deal if you live in CA like I do). These cars are already expensive as it is.
Initially he told me it probably applied to all 911's that arrived after Dec 31 (since they invoice the cars upon arrival to the U.S.), but then he read the memo more carefully and it stated that Porsche will actually compensate the dealers the difference as long as the car was ordered by Dec 31 (he showed me the actual memo).
So bottom line, place your orders by Dec 31 so you don't get hit with the price hike.
And $2600 is nothing to sneeze at. That's like paying for another big option or package and getting nothing in return, not to mention it affects the tax you pay as well (a big deal if you live in CA like I do). These cars are already expensive as it is.
#25
12-16-2012, 12:20 AM
Not have to, they are.
Porsche enjoys some of the highest average per unit profit margins in the entire automotive industry.
This information was relayed to me several years ago by someone who left PUSA for Toyota and was shocked at the margin differential.
Porsche enjoys some of the highest average per unit profit margins in the entire automotive industry.
This information was relayed to me several years ago by someone who left PUSA for Toyota and was shocked at the margin differential.
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12-16-2012, 12:24 AM
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#27
12-16-2012, 05:26 PM
Porsche's business model is just different. They make money on margins not volume.
#29
12-16-2012, 07:20 PM
No different than any other consumer products, brand value and the power of marketing. ; D
#30
12-16-2012, 10:34 PM
More like taking one platform, offering 6 models based on the platform with no less than 100 individual options, and 90,000 possible configurations, and then charging 500-3,000% mark-up on each option.