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However, one cannot argue the fact that Porsche remains the [world's] most profitable car manufacturer.
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You may have hit the nail on the head. I think someone could certainly argue that because there are record amounts of Deutschemarks going into the pockets of Porsche shareholders, there might be a corresponding dearth of those same Deutschemarks going in to the kind of engineering R & D that could be used to kick Chevrolet's and Dodge's and BMW's behinds. Porsche
shouldn't be the most profitable car maker in the world. It should be a lean, mean, group of performance-obsessed engineers, visionaries and racers who are setting records for the amounts of money they re-invest in staying ahead of the fat, profitable manufacturers of unspectacular econoboxes and lumbering GT cruise ships.
There, a nice Sunday-night rant for you all.
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Jack Olsen
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[This message has been edited by JackOlsen (edited 08-20-2001).]