[V8] A rear engined VW in my garage.....again!-now Porsche Panamera

[Tony and Lillie]

Speaking of the Panamera, I saw one on the road while working in Illinios 
last week. Wow!! It looks pretty exotic coming straight at you, then you see 
the rest of the car! I surely wouldn't spend that sort of $$ on a car that 
ugly.

Tony

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Subject: [V8] A rear engined VW in my garage.....again!

> * Plans for production of the Porsche Panamera will be scrapped.  With
> 132 buttons on the interior of the car, and the overall delivered cost of
> over $115,000 considered simply too high for any reasonable sales in the 
> US
> especially, the new CFO of VW's division will cut the project.  Rumors are
> that VW will appoint Wilhelm Kaiser von Otto as the new CFO, while 
> Weideking
> will become CEO of Porsche Group, essentially a backwater job.  Kaiser von
> Otto is notorious as a hatchetman in car circles, and he has been quoted 
> in
> some of the automotive press as saying that, "Americans are too stupid and
> poorly educated to be able to remember what 130 buttons in a car are for,
> anyway."