D he sports car manufacturer Porsche has suspended the sale of all new cars until further notice. The background to this is the changeover to the new exhaust gas measuring cycles WLTP and RDE, which entail stricter requirements both in the approval procedure on the test bench and in real day-to-day operation. They apply gradually from September of this year. Gasoline engines can usually meet these limits only if they are equipped with a particulate filter.
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Apparently, Porsche underestimated the necessary technical measures. Since Friday, the following note appears on the homepage in the configurator: “Due to a pending model revision, the model you have selected is currently not available as a freely configurable new car. Nevertheless, we would like to give you the opportunity to continue to look at the model in the Car Configurator. If you are interested in configurable new cars, available existing vehicles and young used vehicles, please contact your Porsche Center “.
There, even the customer gets told that he has to wait for the models Cayenne and Panamera until at least March 2019, if a new vehicle is desired. How it is ordered to the sports car icon 911, was not yet clear. Fall will definitely be. It comes “temporarily to a limited offer,” said a spokesman on Friday.
From company circles it was said that the measure was due to the high order backlog. The production is sold out until September. For this reason, first of all, all the efforts will be made to process all remaining orders and to allow the vehicles before 1 September 2018.
Diesel is no longer sold
Customers who would like to have a Porsche face the dilemma of taking a car out of stock with out-of-date exhaust technology or waiting for months. If you want to have the latest exhaust technology, you must make sure that your vehicle meets the emission class Euro 6d-Temp. The sales stop applies only to Europe, foreign markets such as North America or Asia are still supplied.
Previously, Porsche had already taken out of the program because of the exhaust affair of diesel engines. Porsche is the first and so far only manufacturer with a complete sales stop. Individual models of BMW, such as the X5, the 7 Series or the M3, and Volkswagen are also affected and no longer available. Opel and Volvo should not be affected so far.
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