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Porsche temporarily no longer sells new cars in Europe. The sports car manufacturer does not lag behind with the adaptation to new emission standards. T he sports car manufacturer Porsche has suspended the sale of all new cars until further notice. The background to this is the changeover to the new
Apparently, Porsche underestimated the necessary technical measures. Since Friday, the following note appears on the homepage in the configurator: "Due to a pending model revision, the model you have selected is currently not available as a freely configurable new car. Nevertheless, we would like to give you the opportunity to continue to look at the model in the Car Configurator. If you are interested in configurable new cars, available existing vehicles and young used vehicles, please contact your Porsche Center ".
There, even the customer gets told that he has to wait for the models Cayenne and Panamera until at least March 2019, if a new vehicle is desired. How it is ordered to the sports car icon 911, was not yet clear. Fall will definitely be. It comes "temporarily to a limited offer," said a spokesman on Friday.
From company circles it was said that the measure was due to the high order backlog. The production is sold out until September. For this reason, first of all, all the efforts will be made to process all remaining orders and to allow the vehicles before 1 September 2018.
Customers who would like to have a Porsche face the dilemma of taking a car out of stock with out-of-date exhaust technology or waiting for months. If you want to have the latest exhaust technology, you must make sure that your vehicle meets the emission class Euro 6d-Temp. The sales stop applies only to Europe, foreign markets such as North America or Asia are still supplied.
Previously, Porsche had already taken out of the program because of the exhaust affair of diesel engines. Porsche is the first and so far only manufacturer with a complete sales stop.Individual models of BMW, such as the X5, the 7 Series or the M3, and Volkswagen are also affected and no longer available. Opel and Volvo should not be affected so far.
Source: Frankfurter Allemagne - June 01/2018 - translated using Google Translate
All I can say is, how quickly the mighty crumble. Needless to say, heads will be served up on platters over this in the Porsche executive ranks.
Cheers,
Rocky
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After that first report, it's hard to say whether a full-stop, slowdown, or limited model availability obtains at the moment; conflicting reports have emerged. A few days isn't an issue, but anything beyond that would be a nightmare for the brand both economically and with respect to image. Already, each VW brand is earning skeptical sideways glances from regulators and customers for reasons too obvious to elaborate. I suspect tomorrow's papers will clarify the situation; this is a must for the
So only cars on dealer lots for Porsche at the moment in Europe. As for heads on platters, letβs wait and see...
I do not have any sympathy for both! The EU regulations for better, clean air in cities was known for eight years to those ladies and gentlemen. Nobody has done any preparations, nobody has done any measures to meet these EU regulations. What was the solution of the German car industry: fraud on a big, big scale by using illegal mechanism to meet the standards. The consumer is also liable by buying that stupid big, heavy SUVs! And the perversion does not end there: people pay huge rents to live
Anyone can be blindsided by a pop quiz, but failing to study for a long scheduled final exam is to deserve failure. And this affects people's health, as you note. Best, Tim
Things keep rolling here in the US... for now
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