Did You Know ...

[vesnyder]

- 70% of Porsche owners are male
- 81% Porsche owners are married
- 49 is the average age of a Porsche owner
- 48% pay for their cars in cash
- 45% of owners are CEO's, Presidents or MD's
- 44% of owners were involved founding their complany
- $289,000 is average annual inclome of a Porsche owner

Just some fun facts in the local paper that accompanied an article discussing Karl Ludvigsen, Porsche historian, being in town for a couple days pushing his book "Excellence was Expected".

[Rot 911]

Wish I was just "average"

[Drago]

Three of them work for me, the other 4...WAY off. I wouldn't mind that salary though

[singpilot]

I'm Male.
Unmarried.
50 years young.
Paid cash for both cars.
Am president. (but not running for Governor).
Am one of the founders.
Am $100K short of this stat.

So I need to get married and earn another $100K?

Would need another $100K to afford a wife who probably would not want to drive the P-cars......

I'm OK just how things are.......

Thanks for the stats, tho.

[nigel911]

Apparently over 80% of facts are made up...

Least I have another 16 years to try and earn that salary.

[RickM]

Is this for all Porsche owners? Or new car purchasers? I'd be curious how they determined the percentage for company founders.

[North Coast Cab]

If the stats are true he should have no problem selling the book for $239. Although I was at Stoddard yesterday and they're having a prepurchase special of $215. We should all run over.

J

[vesnyder]

You can borrow my copy ;-)

[RickM]

Heh....you guys don't get the book as a company perk?

[TMH]

I think that some of the wisdom of Homer Simpson is applicable here:

"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!"

"Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that."

Less applicable, but 2 of my all time favorites:
"I bet Einstein turned himself all sorts of colors before he invented the light bulb."

"Operator! Give me the number for 911!"

Tom