Comments on: Porsche Buys A Tesla, Waits

By: Gforce

Gforce — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:11:50 +0000

This and the “Ferrari checking out Corvette ZR1″ news must be crushing the balls of those flooded with “foreign superiority” hogwash.

By: Bertel Schmitt

Bertel Schmitt — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:42:24 +0000

@tom: Mistake. Damn server acting up. Fixed. Open for ur comments

By: psarhjinian

psarhjinian — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:47:27 +0000

Porsche can engineering and manufacture rings around Tesla any day it chooses to do so.

Pity, then, that they’ve been choosing not to do so.

No, seriously. Between hamstringing the Cayman, subcontracting the Cayenne and, well, we’ll see about the Panamera, Porsche is getting closer and closer to phoning it in.

By: John Horner

John Horner — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:41:16 +0000

Porsche can engineering and manufacture rings around Tesla any day it chooses to do so.

By: JonnyMo

JonnyMo — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:16:15 +0000

I have a Cayman S as my daily car and when I first heard of the Tesla, I wanted one. I hope that Porsche is looking strongly in the direction of producing an E Porsche. It would make lots of sense as I imagine most Porsches are driven short distances and not doing much cross country touring.

BTW, I just got this email about the upcoming plug-in E Mini Cooper.

http://www.miniusa.com/?#/learn/minimalism/MINIE-m

By: no_slushbox

no_slushbox — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:43:23 +0000

In defense of Tesla, they are being open about the car’s problems and slowly releasing the cars to make sure that everything is right.

The alternative choice would be to quickly roll out the cars even though though they have a number of problems and then cover up those problems: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wild-ass-rumor-of-the-day-porsche-boxster-engine-failures/

By: elloh7

elloh7 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:22:53 +0000

Heh.. For a second I actually thought the headline was “Porsche Buys Tesla, Waits”. Silly me and my eyes that move too fast..

By: tom

tom — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:52:03 +0000

@toxicroach:

Yes they are so blatant about it. As a matter of fact, the different car companies usually just send out their cars to every competitor free of charge as soon as it comes out.

Different topic: Why are the comments on the other Porsche story closed?

By: David Holzman

David Holzman — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:44:09 +0000

well this certainly is interesting. Maybe tesla wants to get bought.

By: toxicroach

toxicroach — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:40:09 +0000

Are corporations usually so blatant about their attempts to reverse engineer a product?

And is the victim company usually so pleased?