Porsche is ready to Africa to conquer

Posted on 14-10-2013 at 7:55 pm by sir_smokalot – 12 Comments”

In the 19th century the Germans came a little too late to really get a foothold on the African continent, but 125 years later, trying to Porsche, the brand aims his arrows at about 15 ‘new’, mainly African, countries.

Now you might think, but Porsches drive still not ideal on the African hobbelwegen? In the past maybe not, apart from the prevailing Dakar-911 over this article, but this misconception is due to the excellent work of the Porsche PR department.

Although we Porsche still mostly with razor-sharp supersports associate, is the brand from Zuffenhausen in terms of sales nowadays more an SUV-farmer than a sportwagenmerk, something that will only get more so going to be as soon as the Macan (Twents for ‘shoot’ the scene appears. And SUV’s are very popular with the elites in the less democratised countries.

In contrast to Ferrari, which is a hard cap for sales were established of (significantly) less than 10,000 new cars per year, Caterpillar Nooitgenoeg Porsche is filled to eat the juicy leaves on the Tree of Bovenmodale Citizens of the world. What we say, that has got to even, because the publicly listed Porsche has ambitious sales targets, and if these are not met, will it have to do with mokkende shareholders, falling stock prices, and a donderpreek of Ferdinand Piech.

Therefore, emphasized Porsche’s Marketingbaas Bernhard Maier, recently at the opening of the largest Porsche dealer ever ever in Shanghai again above ambitions, according to press service Bloomberg; for the end of the decade, the presence on the ‘new markets’ is a fact.

Porsche draade over the first three quarters of this year, a plus of 15%, and sold to september, nearly 120,000 cars. 2013 will be a record year. Crisis schmisis.