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Why Is Porsche So Nervous About Its New Car?


Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 4:15pm
Photograph by AFP/AFP/Getty Images.

Porsche is, at root, a sports car company. And at the root of that identity is a single machine, the iconic Porsche 911, introduced in 1963 and steadily, fastidiously, teutonically improved ever since. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to grow as a car company when your entire history and destiny rest on the admittedly superlative performance of a single automobile. So Porsche has created new cars over the years.

  • Matthew DeBord has written about the auto industry for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, and Car Design News.
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Real Hummers Don’t Do Niche


Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 2:39pm

General Motors (MTLQQ) announced last week that it was finally, after some back and forth with various elements of the Chinese government, officially selling Hummer to a Chinese heavy manufacturing company, Sichuan Tengzhong.

  • Matthew DeBord has written about the auto industry for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, and Car Design News.

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