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Originally Posted by tranquility
This is such an interesting video and the guy's pretty impressive, one of those ultimate gearheads. I personally never got the mystique of the 911 because the engine's in the wrong area haha but it keeps bewilderingly winning, e.g. wasn't it EVO's COTY just recently? I don't get it, are all the other manufacturers just that bad even though they have the engine placement advantage or is Porsche just that good in out-engineering everyone?
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While I'm not saying that Porsche makes bad cars, a big part of their success is their very clever pricing strategy. They are essentially the Rolex of the car industry: not so expensive as to be completely unattainable to 99% of the population (like real supercars) but way too expensive for the "average person". As such, Porsche is the ultimate aspirational car for the upper middle class. A "typical" 911 driver is a retired dentist.