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The stigma was generated by your local factory authorized Porsche dealer and salesmen. They wanted to protect their market from competition. We saw the same thing about 12 years ago with Ferrari 360, BMW Z8 and Porsche GT2. Lots of those cars that came over then are now back in Europe.
Does anyone seriously think that a Porsche built to drive on the no-speed-limit Autobahn is somehow less safe than one built to drive 65MPH?
Or perhaps the designers/engineers/workers who built cars for Germany did a poor job but 'got their act together' when assembling them for the USA?
Now that the factory authorized dealers are not dealing in the older models, the stigma has gone away--they were the ones generating it, after all. If a European buyer is looking here in the USA they may even pay a premium for a ROW car.
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