You are right, the same build for my car went from $144500 to $146600. I know there are supply chain issues any way I am disappointed that because of their supply chain issue i lost my allocation and will cost me more money to build the same spec.
The configurator is back up and it is still showing all of the options for the Matrix Lights.
Please educate me: how can I tell the difference when seeing such a Taycan in the wild?
Supply chain issues are real. I work in Operations(not at Porsche) and we have several parts that are being quoted at 52 week or longer lead times. In order to get those parts we have to go out to the open market and as an example for one part we have to pay $46 for a $4 part. It's either pay the price or not build your product. Unfortunately, we have to pass the prices on to our customers since it doesn't make sense for us to build the product at a loss. All the auto manufacturers are experiencing the same issue and since they have thousands of parts in their cars the issue is magnified. So their costs are going up and the quantity of cars they can build is getting smaller so prices go up. The old rule of supply and demand.
Agree regarding the reputational impact. I'm curious what dealers will do now? Call up customers and tell them their same build is a few grand more? That's not a great position to be in from a customer service point of view, but with the current supply-chain issues and the demand, Porsche (and dealers) have the upper hand.
I suspect that this is a bug. I've a sneaking suspicion that the person who "wrote up the premium package configuration" didn't test it properly and that's why we have these odd ball numbers.
They should cancel the GTS orders and scavenge the parts from there.
(Yes I am kidding)
I think it is more about wanting exactly what you ordered when you are paying well over 100k for a car. In general, the more I pay for something the more particular I am about getting exactly what I want. I'll likely not cancel my order over this, but I can't say I haven't considered it.
Depending on how the pricing goes, i.e. drop, people can also see this as an opportunity to spec something else out if they were budget limited (as I am). Might add in PTV+.
I’m not criticizing as much as expressing surprise. I don’t think there are any options on our Taycan I would have canceled the order over losing.
…maybe. I don’t completely understand though. If the car was good enough without it before, should be now also. My opinion.
I'm trying to buy a new nvidia graphics card for my CAD system. Cards which were $600 in the summer are now being sold for $2500.- Crazy!
Well those lights are the main looks of the car atleast for me . I am a middle class man who was buying his dream car and that would have been my only car for many years. So spending 150k and still not having exactly what i wanted is a no for me. I understand the supply issue and not blaming any one .
