‘Porsche’s luxury credentials are now hanging by a thread’

‘Porsche’s luxury image is looking threadbare’

Chris Bryant at Bloomberg

Is Porsche “still a luxury brand?" asks Chris Bryant. It is “now very much up for debate.” Their profit downgrade “undermines the German automaker’s claim to have a luxury business model, with negative implications for the way the stock is valued.” In a “world of intensifying Chinese competition and higher trade barriers, there may be fundamental limits to Porsche’s earnings power.” Porsche “may also be unwilling to countenance the deeper cuts needed to make the brand more exclusive.”

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Tarciana Medeiros at Newsweek

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Aaron Coy Moulton at Time

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Nicole Russell at USA Today

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