Do you have any idea how capital intensive this is?

“Ass-engine-Nazi-slot-car”? Tell P.J. O’Rourke to get a coupla engineering degrees and come join the team. Keeping the uberest of Uber-Beetles able to meet safety and emission regs is a huge PITA. Not to mention having to develop the next round of super-computer-in-the-trunk, just to help the stability system prevent this pendant nightmare from pirouetting like Tanya Harding in every corner.

These relics don’t really sell. We have to constantly create new, profitable cars to give this deutschemark dracula it’s fix. Even worse, the younger dr.eng. are really getting tired of detuning and de-powerplanting every new car, only because some of us can’t have the 911 looking like the pathetic cry for help that it really is.

So lighten up, OK? There are some people inside and outside of Porsche who still think that the ultimate Beetle-Evo, is somehow the iconic Porsche. Keeping the 911 swirling the bowl for another 20 years is gonna take more money than god has.

We really do need every pfennig we can loot from hedgies and VW. Or you will never see a ‘new’ 911 ever again…

Signed,
Your friends at Porsche

(In the interest of full disclosure, I do NOT work for Porsche. I do sometimes work on Porsches. I have also had a few late nite, in lotsa beer there is veritas sessions. With Porsche wayinsiders.)