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[Grant Lenahan]

Cayman is one heck of a nice driving car. Better than the 997 IMNSHO 
(as well as C&D's and Automobile's).
But charging $10k MORE than the convertible is causing some trouble.
First year sales numbers had the cayman outselling the 987s (both) by a 
wide margin. This, I think, led to over-supply.

Grant
On Nov 29, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Brett Dikeman wrote:

>
> On Nov 29, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Taka Mizutani wrote:
>
>> It's not all bad- I don't think the Boxster, Cayman or 997 are all
>> that bad.
>>
>> The Cayenne I never really understood
>
> Porsche conducted a survey, and found a large number of their
> customers a)owned an SUV and b)would buy (not "want"- BUY, a decent
> distinction) an SUV from Porsche if they made one.   It may have been
> a travesty to some, ugly to anyone with a pulse...but when your
> existing customers say "whatever it is, I'll buy it!"...you whisper
> "deny, but take deposits!" to your dealers, and get to work on it :-)
>
> The Cayman...lot of people would like to have one, but it seems
> anyone who's going to buy one, has.  Around here in MA, you don't see
> them often at all, not like Boxsters used to be.  And I have it on
> good authority that a dealer to the north has OVER 30 Cayman S models
> sitting in a side lot doing nothing but collecting rust- and that was
> AFTER they offered something like $10k off sticker, a deal they got
> into a heap of trouble with Porsche over.
>
> Brett
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