In July of 2011 Porsche announced a major expansion of their R&D facility at Weissach. Earlier this week, that $200 million investment concluded with the successful opening of three new buildings including a new design studio with concept car construction facility, a state-of-the-art aero-acoustic wind tunnel and the Electronics Integration Center.
"Weissach now stands more than ever for …
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For month after month we've watched the sales figures in the U.S. and Canada achieve record results. Earlier this month Porsche released their world-wide figures for the month of June and the first half of 2014. Not surprisingly, given that both of Porsche's top two markets (the U.S. and China) have been up month over month, the worldwide figure rose 8% as compared to last year for a total of …
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Most Porsche racing fans know Hartmut Kristen's name. He's been with the company since 1983 and from 1994 was responsible for customer racing activities and GT vehicles. Then, in 2004 he took over as Vice President of Porsche Motorsport.
In his role as VP of Porsche Motorsport he not only made his mark in top motorsport, for instance with the RS Spyder sports prototype in the American Le …
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Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA), today announced June 2014 sales of 4,102 vehicles, marking the best June in company history. During the first half of 2014, PCNA has delivered 22,919 vehicles in the U.S., for an increase of 7.6% over last year (21,309) – which was a record-setting year.
“This first half of the year has been impressive on a number of fronts,” said Detlev von Platen, …
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Despite the highly public issues Nick Murray had with his 911, most new Porsche owners experience few, if any, problems. That fact was confirmed today when Porsche received news that they once again ranked highest amongst all nameplates in the J.D. Power Initial Quality Study out of a total of 32 international automakers covered in the U.S. study.
Not only did the Porsche 911, Boxster, …
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Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA) announced May sales of 4,609 vehicles and it was yet another record month and all-time record for any month. As most of you know, mid-May marked the sales start of the 2015 Macan S and Macan Turbo, which amounted to 1,263 units. Even with the Macan apparently (and not unexpectedly) eating into Cayenne sales (Cayenne sales dropped from 1839 in April to 1294 …
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Porsche boosted its worldwide deliveries to customers in April 2014: with 16,300 vehicles sold, the manufacturer bettered the successful figures of the same month last year by 7%. From January to April of this year, Porsche delivered 55,000 new cars to customers (+ 5.2%). The Panamera had the greatest jump in sales, up 17% so far this year.
“We are continuing our qualitative growth strategy …
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Just as with their counterparts in the U.S., Canada has set an all time sales record with 467 units sold in April of 2014. This represents a 15.6% increase from the same period last year.
“This represents a great performance ahead of the arrival of the Macan,” said Alexander Pollich, President & CEO, Porsche Cars Canada, Ltd. “We are poised to continue our streak of strong results with the …
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Porsche Cars North America, (PCNA) today announced April sales of 4,072 vehicles. This not only beats last year’s record sales number for the month of April by 40 units, but it is also an all-time, any-month record for Porsche sales in the U.S. For the year so far, PCNA has delivered 14,207 vehicles versus 13,681 during the same period last year, an increase of 4%.
Porsche Approved …
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Maria Sharapova has won the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix for her third time on-the-trot. In an epic final, the superstar from Russia beat Serb Ana Ivanovic (3-6, 6-4, 6-1) in front of a thrilled 4,500-strong crowd in Stuttgart’s Porsche Arena. Having won the Porsche Grand Prix, she will therefore take home the prize of a Porsche 911 Targa 4S.
Immediately after clinching the match, after two …
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