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Why Is Porsche So Nervous About Its New Car?


Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 5:15pm
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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 New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Huffington Post. Follow him on Twitter.
Photograph by AFP/AFP/Getty Images.

Real Hummers Don’t Do Niche


Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 3:39pm

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 New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Huffington Post. Follow him on Twitter.