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Porsche is not primarily a sports car company regardless of what we enthusiasts want, they are an aoutomobile company that builds SUVs and sedans and some halo sports cars and price things accordingly. All the complaints about added technology and costs increasing faster than inflation completely neglegt the effect of government regulations. We dont want all the nannys in our sports cars but regulations give them no option to delete. All that extra technology has increased the complexity of the vehicle and some of it has caused the reliance on computers to do diagnostics. You can no longer design and sell a car that does not have multiple levels of computer oversite. Maybe we should all actually thank Porsche for continuing to build some sports cars. As a corporation they could shift further toward Macans, and speculation is they are looking at a smaller SUV to further up profits. Those profits pay for the engineering research and development that ultimately results in the cars we love. At the dealer level it is also the SUVs that keep the lights on.