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Mito Man wrote: Fri Aug 01, 2025 12:40 pm Does the Taycan have the same woefully engineered motors that the Etron coupes have with regards to crap coolant seals?

I believe the same (type of) seals are used by all the manufacturers who have cooled motors. (VW group, Merc, Tesla etc).

Wouldn't touch them with a bargepole then!

I really want to like the Taycan. Or at least the idea of it. Can’t quite get there in my head though. I swore blind I wouldn’t buy another Porsche and I probably won’t. They are so very good to drive though. Just wish they weren’t run by such a group of smug bastards.

Jesus Christ… there are other dealerships out there SD

I was surprised to see that globally Porsche had 3 times the sales of 911s vs Boxster/Cayman - confirms what Jobbo says really, they are the actual rarer items these days.

And certainly not unique - I posted that there were more 488 Pistas produced than stock 488s. People are willing to pay substantially more for what is perceived to be the more desirable product.. even if there is a demonstration of massively diminishing returns evident

Neither company car be unhappy about that - the 992 can’t be that much more expensive to make than the 718 but it is almost double the starting price. Back in the 90s the same would have been true about 986/996 - half the car was identical FFS - but I’m fairly sure many more people bought Boxsters than 911s. Does anyone have sales figures for that era?

IanF wrote: Fri Aug 01, 2025 11:45 pm Jesus Christ… there are other dealerships out there SD

I’m referring to Porsche themselves, not the dealers. So the people in Reading and the VAG overlords.