tchavei
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we're joking but I suspect that's exactly what happened...Must have been an interesting meeting between marketing and engineering in 2019 at the Porsche office in Stuttgart:
-Engineer: "Marketing guy, we have problem: The RWD with the small battery is faster than the RWD with the big battery"
-Marketing: "How is that possible ? We cannot sell a slower, more expensive car. Porsche buyers will not accept to pay more for a slower car"
-Engineer: "It is just physics. It is lighter. It has the same motor. So it is faster. Can't change it."
-Marketing: "Please find a hack"
-Engineer reluctantly adding a software hack.....
One week later:
-Engineer: "The AWD with the big battery is slower than the RWD with the small battery. The extra motor and the battery add extra weight and make it slower. We cannot compensate that with the extra power of the extra motor."
-Marketing: "grrrr, you again. I told you already: We can not sell a car that has the cost of the extra motor and the extra battery for more money, if it is slower. Add more software hacks."
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