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Originally Posted by heavyD^2
Too many people waste their time reminiscing about the past (these forums especially) which is an unhealthy dysfunction. Porsche is now an SUV company that sells sports cars on the side. Does that really matter though as the 911 and 718 are still available and better than ever.
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^This, but its most car forums because they tend to be an older crowd, and therefore more likely to reminiscing about the romantic notion of good driver focus cars, the good ol days. The youngsters today will far more likely post on a Facebook group than frequent a forum, and have a very different want in their vehicles.
People also forget, car makers are in the industry to make money, making entire brand for some romantic historic notion of good sports cars is a dead end road few have tried, and have all failed eventually (TVR, Lotus, hell Porsche was almost dead if not for the Cayenne), those that do manage to weather the SUV storm manage by being plain obscure, or have some multi-gajillionaire backers
Obviously Porsche know there is enough room in the uber-luxo SUV market for another player, and for Porsche, there is no shortage of parts bin to pull from to add a player for little cost.