Re: India's first Porsche Studio opens in Delhi Quote:
Originally Posted by EightSix I like all of Porsche’s innovative dealerships and outlets - Porsche Now, Porsche Studio, Porsche Center, Porsche Design — all of these make a Porsche owner feel special, and also makes the brand seem more premium.
The pictures look great too. But by the looks of it, it can accommodate only one-two cars. What good is a dealership if I can’t touch and feel a car?
I believe many carmaker’s already have configurators on their websites, so why do we need to travel to a dealership and do the same thing that we can do from our own house?
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From my own experience in Germany, UK and the Netherlands I would say that these days a Porsche Center is even better than these studio’s. For no other reason they have near identical amenities, same feel and they are a real Porsche dealer too. So they tend to have the full range of cars on display. The other difference tends to be locations; these studios you will find typically at top retail locations. Whereas your Porsche Center tends to be on some industrial estate at the edge of a major town.
Porsche has an excellent online configurator. By far the best I have played around with. Much better than for instance the JLR one. Even the JLR sales people struggled with it. I spend a few hours with them as I was interested in Range Rover.
The other noticeable thing is Porsche still provides very high quality paper brochures, or even better yet; I have been looking at the Panamera Sport Turismo. A complete book!! Absolutely love it. By sharp contrast, JLR does not even have a single paper brochure and or leaflet anymore. All the dealer can do is to refer you to their stupid, poorly designed, configurator.
Although I have bought second hand cars, unseen, from the Internet, including my gorgeous Jaguar X308, I don’t think I would ever buy a new car from internet only. Even if I would be buying the tiniest, cheapest car, let alone a Porsche.
I find these configurators are very useful to help you come to turns with the car, options, features, colours, pricing etc. A good way to do some basic research and get yourself aquatinted with the car. But there is simply nothing that can replace looking at it, going over it in minute detail, stroking, touching and ultimately taking it for a test drive.
The Porsche guys and girls are very very good in my experience. I always make an appointment as you will be assured of their un-devoted attention for hours.
I spend about 4 hours with them, looking at the car, going through the configurator together so they could explain all the differences between the various options and features etc. Great experience! I had booked my test drive last year, but then Corona happened.
Jeroen
Last edited by Jeroen : 22nd January 2021 at 15:58.
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