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This week's Autocar has an item about a new 3 door Coupe style (read 911 lookalike) baby Cayenne that is under developement............ will post a scanned copy to my galley in a few minutes 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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OK here is the article:
http://www.rrsport.co.uk/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=228


Ooooops one pic is upside down....... I'll let you stand on your head or rotate your screen to view it!  2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Hmmmmm. Hmmmm. Hmmmmmmmmmm.....

Back end looks like a Vauxhall Tigra!
Front end just doesn't look right, there again the Cayenne just don't look right to me

Slimer wrote:

Back end looks like a Vauxhall Tigra!
Front end just doesn't look right, there again the Cayenne just don't look right to me

I don't think it looks right to anyone

I was thinking that but didn't like to offend

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That's not a real car, is one of those little Micro Machines... are Porsche on the verge of losing it? Stick to what you're good at!!!  

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At first I thought Autocar were pulling an early April Fool........... but not so when you read the item in the mag. It is a "computer enhanced" picture (ie they have made it up!) and I agree it looks like one of those radio controlled toy cars photographed close up! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
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Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Problem is, Porsche seem to listen to these so-called 'Brand Gurus'. Their view is that the Porsche brand will stand this expansion from what they do best - Sportscars (See Butt-ugly Cayenne)

They also keep telling them they can expand upwards AND downwards in price scale (See Boxster, Cayman)

This could also going to lead to an 'Affordable Porsche for the masses' as Porsche only survived going pop by doing this.

Personally, I don't think it's a good idea. I don't believe this mass marketing of premium brands is a good idead.

Merc tried it with the A class and in order to make the project, and business profitable they cut corners on quality which damamged their once peerless reputation for build quality and durability.

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Merc tried it with the A class and in order to make the project, and business profitable they cut corners on quality which damamged their once peerless reputation for build quality and durability.

Don't forget the A class failed the Elk test! 2005 Zambezi TDV6 - Gone but not forgotten
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Tim, my point was not very clearly made.

I meant ALL Mercs suffered as a result of cost cutting/profit chasing.

I used to have a C320 which was bloody shocking!

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Chylsers merger/takeover of mercedes benz caused all this cost cutting.
Although they are sorting things back out at Mercedes Benz, i still find the dealer network to be shockingly bad, and the cars aren't that much better. I.e. R class.. rebadged Chysler!? Plus not making the ML a 7 seater, forcing people with old 7 seater Ml's to go towards other marques or make do with the odd looking R class.

We used to have an S class W140 model - the big barges, and some people say that this was the last bullet proof merc, but it was terrible as well, it had so many electrical faults, that we had to threaten legal action when the boot started popping open when we were driving along. This led to a Merc tech group taking the merc apart on our office car park, but they found nothing wrong with it!! so we gave up and sold the damn thing.
Yes may have been a lemon model, but still we lost faith in the brand as to what is supposed to be the flag ship model causing us so much grief.

Makes the problems with the RRS seem trivial, thats why it hasnt bothered me too much compared to the mess we got into with Merc back then.

We are apprehensive in buying another merc, and have been with Bmw ever since, but it appears Bmw confidence and dealer network is growing complacent as well.. There was an article last night in my local rag, that Bmw are not doing very well and confidence in the brand is at an all time low, despite higher sales this year. Lexus are storming ahead with top customer satisfaction scores. If toyota plough loads of money into the Lexus brand for the Uk and Europe im sure they could take over big style.

But they keep making silly errors and being too behind the market. I.e. only just released a diesel and that being the IS220d only available in Manual.. LS430 and Gs cars still don't look as good as the european models and residuals aren't as strong. We had an IS200 SE old shape for three years, and never had one thing go wrong with it, not even a glitch, never saw inside of a dealership apart from routine servicing. They should make use of their Hybrid technology and bring it out big style, as they are so far ahead of the competition in this respect. I would definitely buy an RX hybrid, if it didn't look like such a pants car compared to the RRS.

Plus not making the ML a 7 seater, forcing people with old 7 seater Ml's to go towards other marques or make do with the odd looking R class.

Kam,

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