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Old 11-19-2010, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by roundel View Post
http://community.evo.co.uk/users/Mon...ry-of-the-911R

A nice bashing of the R tag by Chris Harris
One commenter sums it up:

I as mentioned earlier i think the punter who will pay good money for a special stripped road racer can spot a half arsed marketing driven poseur's car a mile off. A 275bhp 2.9 Cayman at 1100kg for £40,000 would sell, i would buy one and i am poor. No pasm, pse, sport chrono, a simple interior with manual seats, lightweight carpets/sound deadening and 17 inch wheels. That is still a CS.

But this is about marketing. Selling 3,000 of them to track enthusiasts is not going to cut it. They need to sell 30,000 of them to wannabes. Just a shame to tarnish a historic name.
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