Turbo vs Turbo S

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No way Porsche is going to have an option in the configurator to get that power. There would be nothing setting apart Porsche's famous "turbo" trim level.

Why not? A software defined car. You can buy it cheaper at order time, or later via FOD available at first at a higher price than with original purchase, but lowered over time per depreciation schedule. At some point, subscriptions (monthly, annually, etc) to capture the market of people who can only afford the Turbo S performance when they have a good month at work (salesperson working on commissions perhaps).

This may have to wait for the next generation of customers though, who don’t rage over paying for software because they bought the hardware already capable. Kids nowadays are used to the fact that you buy super capable hardware, like an iPhone, which comes with lidar for example, but to use that lidar you have to pay (to buy an app). Or they buy a gaming console with hardware capable of playing all the games, but they still have to pay for each game to play it, and then for capabilities in the game (capabilities which come in the game but are locked until you pay). That generation will not throw fits over software defined cars.

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