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Let's pop quiz another pricey German auto maker: Can you guess how many Porsches were sold in North America last month?

Posted by Max May 1 '13, 12:06

I'd like to tell the CTTP guesser "you win a free Porsche!" but you know that's not going to happen.

Responses:

answer: 4,032 cars was its best month ever, 17% more than April '12. Cayennes were more than 40% of that total. - Max May 1, 12:31 24
- using that as single point analysis, I'd say that's a good sign for the economy. -- nm - Max May 1, 12:35 15
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    - that's good! -- nm - Don Homer May 1, 12:38 1
      - The transmission is cursed. -- nm - Beryllium May 1, 12:38
  - Disagree. Can't gauge entire economy by a high-end marker. -- nm - Beryllium May 1, 12:36 9
    - RV sales are a well-known leading indicator of economic movement. - amanda May 1, 12:40 5
      - I think of Cayennes as soccer mom vehicles. Or at least family ones, which is where I think the economy is. -- nm - Max May 1, 12:41 4
        
        my friend's wife has one. it's pretty luxe, really. kind of crossoverish more than full-on SUV. -- nm - amanda May 1, 12:44 3
        
        note that my friend sells cars. they never would have bought it like, new. or even used and priced fairly. they got a great deal. -- nm - amanda May 1, 12:45 2
        
        Do they have kids? I'd be interested in seeing figures for SUV owners with kids vs not. -- nm - Max May 1, 12:48 1
        
        oh god no. they have four huge dogs (one insane, 3 regular) and a miata. -- nm - amanda May 1, 12:53
    - Okay.... then it is a bad sign!!! -- nm - Spawn May 1, 12:37 1
      - No! I disagree with that, too! - Beryllium May 1, 12:38
    - (It's the fallacy of trickle-down economics, right? :) ) -- nm - Beryllium May 1, 12:37
  - well, a good sign for the 1% at least. -- nm - Don Homer May 1, 12:36 1
    - *ding* -- nm - Epiphany May 1, 12:38
- they fell well short of my projections -- nm - prayformojo May 1, 12:33
- Don Homer! -- nm - budice May 1, 12:32 6
  - ML was actually closer. -- nm - Don Homer May 1, 12:33 5
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      - No no, you misheard us, senor. Porch. You win free Porch. -- nm - Beryllium May 1, 12:36
      - Yeah, but it's a Cayenne. Doesn't count. -- nm - Don Homer May 1, 12:34 2
        
        Just like a Boxster. -- nm - Shaun May 1, 12:40
        
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I have no frame of reference. I don't know how many Fords or Toyotas were sold last month, either. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) May 1, 12:22
1100 -- nm - James Bond (aka phone) May 1, 12:21
12,000 -- nm - Spawn May 1, 12:17
2500 -- nm - decline May 1, 12:14
11,000 -- nm - colin May 1, 12:11
judging from the growth in local porsche dealerships... 7500 -- nm - Beryllium May 1, 12:10 1
- that's on the low end of my impromptu model, though -- nm - Beryllium May 1, 12:11
3,125 -- nm - Don Homer May 1, 12:10
69 -- nm - Beaker May 1, 12:08
700 -- nm - zork May 1, 12:08 1
- including the SUV ones -- nm - zork May 1, 12:09
312.50? -- nm - budice May 1, 12:07
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63,000. I have zero idea -- nm - prayformojo May 1, 12:06 2
- I'm guessin you're *just* a tad high. I imagine even a Toyota will "only" have about 250k-ish sales per month. -- nm - Don Homer May 1, 12:11
- Tangentially: China produced 24% of the world's cars in 2011 - prayformojo May 1, 12:10

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