Now this is curious. The pending merger between VW and Porsche has led some thinking-types to believe four-door Porsches aren’t long for this world. According to the boys and girls over at CAR, VW plans to axe the newborn Panamera and the Cayenne SUV at the end of their current product cycle. That should be somewhere in the neighborhood of seven years from now. Why, pray tell, would VW do such a thing? According to CAR, VW’s worried about redundancy in the product line. Uh huh. That doesn’t exactly gel with us, especially since the last time VW tried to churn out its own primo saloon, things didn’t turn out so well. Time will tell, Fiends. [Source: MotorAuthority]
Posted By: Zach Bowman | 3 Comments »
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Something tells me this “merger” of VW and Porsche (more like a conquest, really) will turn out as well as Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union.
I should be cheering the thought of the Cayenne and Panamera being axed but, instead, I shrug. Porsche has sold its soul already and it’s too late to go back.
Base MSRP on the Tuareg, Cayenne, and Q7 are within 20% of each other. The three brands market 12 total versions/trim levels in three different bodies.
Why is this okay for VW but not for GM/Ford? I think the fact that the platform actually sells and makes a lot of money is the big difference.
Get rid of the Cayenne, the vehicle in their lineup that actually makes the company enough money to produce the other cars in the lineup?
seems like a great plan!