As a Porsche owner and fanatic I really hate to see this inbreeding of Porsche
but with the new CAFE laws coming they probably have no good alternatives.
Porsche owns half of VW also

 

so ... porsche moves down market, and audi moves up market ... aaannd the point of this is ...

this is dumb, why every manufacturer thinks they need to have a car in every bracket under every badge is completely beyond me. isnt the point of having multiple badges is so that you can cover all segments?

like come ON people, we have porsche golfs, big luxury VW suvs, 1 series x6 (who knows that those are supposed to be for), toyota ES / lexus camry, crossover tall wagon things

 

Yep. And look what a success the Cayenne has been.

 

I'm curious as to see if Porsche (right now) meets those CAFE requirements. Most of their models get between 20-30MPG (except Cayenne models and super car versions). I'm not sure if they'd really need to create a new Porsche model to fit into CAFE regulations. They might just need to tweak their engines for better economy. Almost all of their engines are 6 cylinder engines.

 

Since the Cayenne came out Porsche probably has the lowest CAFE of any car manufacturer with enough sales volume to care and is in danger of having to pay thousands of dollars per vehicle penalty if they cannot comply with future requirements. ( ie Ferrari & Lamborghini don't care they just add cost to MSRP)

 

I think this would be a terrible move, an Golf porsche, what about the A3, is that not enough?

 

From wikipedia

A number of manufacturers choose to pay CAFE penalties rather than attempt to comply with the regulations. As of model year 2006, BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Volkswagen, Ferrari, Porsche and Maserati failed to meet CAFE requirements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpora...rent_standards

You also forget that Porsche is the highest profitting automaker.